Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [conj] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 2 ) The buyer may attempt to induce shareholders to accept the tender offer ( and not " wait and see " ) by expressly stating or implying that he does not intend to make a full bid . |
| 2 | And he did n't take any notice of what she was asking or saying and he did n't take any notice of her at all . |
| 3 | Roland had never been much interested in Randolph Henry Ash 's vanished body ; he did not spend time visiting his house in Russell Street , or sitting where he had sat , on stone garden seats ; that was Cropper 's style . |
| 4 | After a few years caddying on and off for de Vicenzo , Dave went into full-time caddying in the mid-1970s , although he was still doing work other than caddying when he took the bag of Vicente Fernandez . |
| 5 | A landlord is bound to include a covenant against assignment and subletting if he wishes to maintain control over the business tenancy . |
| 6 | He enjoys colouring and drawing when he 's had a fit . |
| 7 | Little Billy recognised Don Mini riding on a fine jay and he was waving and cheering as he flew alongside them . |
| 8 | He received a letter the next day apologizing and accepting that he had not been in possession of a stolen car . |
| 9 | The Prester was believed to have written to the Byzantine Emperor Manuel Comnenus , enumerating the wonders of his kingdom , and affirming that he ruled over the three Indies and over seventy kings , and that twenty bishops , twelve archbishops and a patriarch acknowledged his authority . |
| 10 | In it the pope said nothing about homage , and argued temperately against lay investitures , minimizing their importance , and denying that he sought for himself any increase of authority or any diminution of the king 's due power . |
| 11 | It is sad that Orwell should have been bedridden and dying when he met Waugh , for the first and last time . |
| 12 | Then Richard returned to Poitiers and from there , on 2 February , he sent envoys to his father reporting his success and announcing that he had pacified all parts of Aquitaine . |
| 13 | Michael , indicating the stairs and implying that he had to go straight on , then directed him to the left , upon which he said quietly , if a trifle reproachfully : ‘ You said straight on ’ . |
| 14 | Albert was joking with the kids and grinning when he heard one of the porters talking , leaning on his luggage-trolley and speaking loudly . |
| 15 | ‘ I did n't think we had any chance of catching him but I just kept shoving and shouting and he got there in the end , ’ said Antoinette . |
| 16 | He then explained that William Tidbury could not be convicted of aiding and abetting because he had not been charged with that crime . |
| 17 | At the bottom of the escalator we meet the ticket inspector riding down and frowning as he approaches us . |
| 18 | His feet echo on the boards , a pause , then splashing and spluttering as he dives low out into the lake . |
| 19 | David Pennett , on the other hand , has been admitted to the company of Notts first-teamers in no time at all , after being winnowed out of Yorkshire 's cricket academy and wondering whether he had a future in the game . |
| 20 | " There 's rules about who can ride up with the driver , " I said looking at John Russell and wondering if he had any ideas . |
| 21 | George came last , carrying an attaché case of papers and looking over his shoulder at the train as if wondering if he 'd forgotten anything . |
| 22 | However as late as 1668 another Roman , Mario Savioni ( c. 1608–1685 ) brought out a book of five-part Madrigali morali e spirituali , explaining that they were to be sung each at the end of one of his previously published Concerti morali and adding that he had ‘ taken care to unite together the aria and the madrigal so as to conform with the character of the concertos ’ . |
| 23 | In either case , an unauthorised practitioner will have committed a criminal offence under the Financial Services Act , and pleading that he did it only once or that it happened by accident is not going to impress anyone . |
| 24 | Faced with an audience which included Dikaiopolis , the main character in Aristophanes ' Acharnians ( see lines 1ff. ) , farting and grumbling as he watched the Spartan ; put a match to the combustible parts of Attica , a speaker might well need to invent cruder techniques . |
| 25 | John Bowes could have spent the whole of his fortune on good living and racing but he chose to apply a large proportion to this fabulous collection and its breathtaking setting , which now forms part of our local heritage . |
| 26 | Quick as a flash , Simon 's laughing was replaced by tutting and headshaking as he dusted the car off , muttering something about hooligans . |
| 27 | A young Roman Catholic soldier from the Lancashire Fusiliers was billeted on him for two summer months of 1941 and never forgot the joyful singing which used to accompany Ramsey 's washing and shaving before he went off to the cathedral each morning . |
| 28 | Always bleating and moaning because he has n't got a son — no one to carry on the Great Name of Graham — She gave a short guffaw . |
| 29 | Paul wrote to Dr Heatherton as he had intended , thanking him for his trouble and saying that he had called in the hope of meeting him . |
| 30 | The Mukhabarat demanded he sign an affidavit accusing his brother of all sorts of other crimes and saying that he had always been a traitor at heart . |