Example sentences of "he [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is he right or is he wrong ? |
| 2 | Uncertainty , doubt : You may he right Its possible |
| 3 | So he right ? |
| 4 | But I mean i is n't he right in saying look this is , this is the erm figures he uses are seventy percent of the population that , that they are , if you like , our friends an and if you 're gon na have a revolution successfully you 've got ta make , distinguish between your friends and your enemies and the poor peasants are your real friends . |
| 5 | Aveling preferred actresses , but they were more difficult to locate once he left New York , and he rather looked down on what passed as theatre in America , although he admired Buffalo Bill 's Wild West Show . |
| 6 | The family had finished their supper when she got home , but her temper was soothed by her reception : Herr Nordern coming from the bedroom to greet her , Omi fussing , Erika getting her meal , even Paul helping her off with her coat , although he rather spoiled his effect by then chucking it over the back of a chair instead of hanging it up . |
| 7 | NO SNOW fell during the night and at 10.00 , after Erika had run her five kilometres under a dazzling blue sky , Karl ran and said that he thought he rather did that a brief tour of Berlin would be possible and that he would be waiting in the lounge of the Palast at 11.00 ; adding that Paul should meet them at the television Tower at 1.00 |
| 8 | Would n't he rather wait twenty-four hours ? ’ |
| 9 | He rather doubted Caroline 's story , but it was flattering that any woman should think she 'd had him . |
| 10 | He rather hoped that Eleanor would say this , even though other girls had n't . |
| 11 | There were times , though , when he rather hoped a working-class bloke would take a shine to his wife and beat the hell out of her . |
| 12 | Besides , he rather liked the uniforms . |
| 13 | He rather liked Dr Lange . |
| 14 | But he rather doubted , he said , glancing around mordantly , that shamanistic powers would be of any interest to such a gathering . |
| 15 | He did not feel that he would want to return to university , so he decided to apply for an unclassed ‘ War Honours ’ degree — ‘ probably not worth the paper it 's written on ’ , but perhaps enough to get him started in some profession , such as colonial service or , possibly , journalism ; he rather liked the idea of becoming a parliamentary correspondent for a newspaper . |
| 16 | When he rather reluctantly accepted the suggestion of another Sibelius score , En Saga , he found that ‘ the music suggested rather a different story ’ . |
| 17 | He rather hoped his wife would wake and catch him like this , unshaven , hair greasy and uncombed , and as he stood beside the bed he farted quite loudly , as if to remind her that she deserved someone as awful as him . |
| 18 | But Coleridge found that he rather enjoyed the rolling of the deck , and held long and facetious conversations with a talkative fellow passenger . |
| 19 | Nicholas , in the course of these encounters , failed to meet John of Kinloch whose regard for him , he rather feared , would be unaltered . |
| 20 | He rather grumpily agreed and went away saying they would have to rehearse . |
| 21 | Jack had been to tea at Tina 's house several times already and he rather liked the estate 's atmosphere , which was friendly and rackety , despite the fact that most of the inhabitants were out of work . |
| 22 | Above everything else Marx claimed that his work had a scientific status which , as he was never tired of pointing out , was in great contrast to those whom he rather disdainfully referred to as the ‘ utopians ’ . |
| 23 | Is n't he rather lax in calling for social change ? |
| 24 | Besides , he rather liked the idea of a well-paid break in Japan . |
| 25 | ‘ I think he rather likes you , ’ Ginny said . |
| 26 | In Manchester , he had shared a simple , newish little house with a succession of curates , and he rather thought , pacing his new Victorian Gothic halls , that he would like a whole army of curates with him now . |
| 27 | The third client wanted confirmation that he rather than his neighbour owned a bit of land , and that his neighbour had no use rights . |
| 28 | Freed also said that it was he rather than Duna , who had taken a 90% stake in Hungary 's largest circulation English-language newspaper , Budapest Week . |
| 29 | As he rather paradoxically put it , the final cause had to be first . |
| 30 | When occasionally he rather wearily turned on the Government , the reaction was one of surprise more than of dismay . |