Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] he [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Act provides that it is a defence to an action brought under section 2 that the damage was wholly due to the fault of the person suffering it or that he voluntarily assumed the risk thereof ( though a person employed as a servant by a keeper of the animal is not to be treated as accepting voluntarily risks incidental to his employment ) . |
| 2 | There is no evidence that memories of the school ever played much part in his life , or that he particularly enjoyed visiting it . |
| 3 | It is impossible that Matthew was mistaken or that he simply made up the verse as a climax to his birth story hoping that his readers would not notice . |
| 4 | It 's not just that he has withdrawn from the business of running a diocese , or that he walks abroad a great deal at night but is scarcely seen during the day , or that he often wo n't accept phone calls . |
| 5 | It was like every time I got a letter or an insinuation from him that he cared , or that he really loved me or wanted me to be with him , it shocked me because he was n't good at showing that . |
| 6 | When Kenneth Clarke first told us of his ideas these and other flaws were so obvious that many of us assumed that either we had analysed the situation incorrectly or that he too had spotted the pitfalls and had the solutions up his sleeve . |
| 7 | ‘ Mind you , ’ he said , ‘ Mr Shildon did n't say he 'd been searching your property or that he ever believed you had his keys . |
| 8 | In this case I would think that , if the minister does not act in good faith , or if he acts on extraneous considerations which ought not to influence him , or if he plainly misdirects himself in fact or in law , it may well be that a court would interfere ; but when he honestly takes a view of the facts or the law which could reasonably be entertained , then his decision is not to be set aside simply because thereafter someone thinks that his view was wrong … |
| 9 | Later on Adam wondered if his father had made all this up or if he really believed it himself . |
| 10 | Albert Ball or William Booth or if he really wants a statue of a lady why not Maid Marian in a lace shawl ? |
| 11 | President Gorbachev then left , as the boos and hisses reached the Podium , but in fact it is n't absolutely clear that he was only going to stay for part of the demonstration , or if he was only going to stay for part of the demonstration or if he really was only going to be there for about 20 minutes . |
| 12 | or if he suddenly says here I 'm here |
| 13 | Was it because he had n't spotted it , or because he felt it would be dishonest to do so , or because he never expected criticism ? |
| 14 | Watching him secretly from under her lashes , she revelled in his evident pleasure , and could n't help wondering whether he was driving so smoothly because he did n't want to wake her … or because he always drove like a man making love . |
| 15 | Now , she was n't sure whether she truly loved the Navaho , or whether he simply happened to be the only human being she had contact with . |
| 16 | Or whether he just looked like a Cadogan employee who fancied his employer 's wife . |
| 17 | And Prince Charles is starting to say things about that and whether that was misquoted in the press or whether he actually said it , the point was it was leaked that he had said it to a group of MP 's . |
| 18 | Now whether he 'd just said that , or whether he actually had . |
| 19 | Does it matter whether he really died in a burning building or whether he only thinks he did ? |
| 20 | In it Harry has collected 240 of the ‘ Country Diary ’ pieces from 1976 to 1990 — or as he laconically points out , between the ages of 65 and 80 . |
| 21 | The public repudiation of Russian chauvinism was to offer the oppressed the right to self-determination , or as he now put it , so that there should be no ambiguity , the right to secede from Russia . |
| 22 | Except that he probably would n't even have noticed . |
| 23 | Except that he no longer has a voice with which to speak . |
| 24 | He could have slain people with his questioning , except that he never listened to the answers . |
| 25 | Sorry , I sound like my own CO — except that he hardly ever calls me darling . |
| 26 | I could not understand his remarks except that he often said " schon " of the water colours , " sehr schon " . |
| 27 | The only trouble was that although he never missed a trick , he was dreadfully slow . |
| 28 | In his section of the AB , Hincmar attributed many crucial diplomatic and political activities to queens : since some were activities of which he approved , and only some queens were credited with such roles , it seems less likely that he obsessively exaggerated the nefarious influence of women ( though misogyny was in the air breathed by medieval churchmen ) than that he accurately portrayed a feature of Carolingian political life underrecorded by other contemporary writers . |
| 29 | Their father may know that if he simply ‘ refuses to intervene ’ the older one , stronger and more resourceful , is bound to come out on top … |
| 30 | In the end Harper had sworn a sacred oath on the Holy Mother and on all the bleeding wounds of Christ that he would not go into battle , that he would remember he was a husband and a father , and that if he so much as heard a musket shot he would turn tail and run away . |