Example sentences of "[be] [conj] he [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The indications are that he only began to reign in 738 , for an eclipse of the sun , followed by a lunar eclipse , which occurred in January 753 , is described in the eighth-century Northumbrian annals as happening in his fifteenth year , whereas Eadberht 's fifteenth year if he succeeded in 737 would have been 751–2 . |
| 2 | The reason could very well have been that he simply desired to do it . |
| 3 | It may be that he just does n't feel very well , and decided to stay in bed . |
| 4 | I suppose it could be that he just wants to crow in his own back yard . |
| 5 | The consensus view seems to be that he probably did not . |
| 6 | ‘ W-who … ? ’ she stammered , while some part of her intelligence prodded away that — could it be that he somehow knew that she was not the person she was pretending to be ? |
| 7 | It may be that he really thinks there is nothing that he really thinks . |
| 8 | The INPFL 's withdrawal followed severe criticisms by interim government officials of Johnson 's action in ordering the execution of a senior commander whose offence appeared to be that he unilaterally complied with provisions of the peace agreement , arranging for his men to hand over their arms to troops of the 7,000-strong Ecowas Monitoring Group ( ECOMOG ) . |
| 9 | He wondered what Vic 's reaction might be if he ever found out or , horror of horrors , caught him red-handed ? |
| 10 | Fabia was seated beside Ven in a taxi when she realised that furious would be an understatement for what Ven would be if he ever learned that she had not only deceived him but , to add insult to injury , allowed him , believing her to be someone else , to house her and feed her into the bargain . |
| 11 | The most obvious of these is that he frequently quotes the Old Testament . |
| 12 | What seems objectionable in Matza 's argument is that he clearly believes there is a ‘ hierarchy ’ of stances in relation to deviance , not just alternatives : the appreciative stance is portrayed as superior to either the romantic or the correctionalist in that it is inherently more likely to get at the truth . |
| 13 | ONE of Harold Gale 's attributes is that he perpetually thinks of new ideas . |
| 14 | In the post-Althusserian context of today it is nevertheless somewhat startling to find the Althusser of Reading Capital citing his debt to Foucault ( along with Bachelard , Cavaillès , and Canguilhem ) as one of our masters in reading learned works'. perhaps even more unexpected , in the light of the fact that a popular British Marxist position on Althusser is that he simply turned history into theory , is the choice of Foucault 's Madness and Civilization ( ’ that great work' ) and The Birth of the Clinic as examples of the kind of history , focused on the necessity of the production of a concept , that he was advocating . |
| 15 | The interest on this , is that he also left a second disk . |
| 16 | To this question , the common answer is that he neither quoted the forged additions nor produced them at Rome , because he knew they were forgeries , and knew also that the forgery would be detected at once by a competent critic . |
| 17 | Yeah well the thing about Simon that 's excellent is that he just accepts people for what they are and he does n't judge people |
| 18 | They are said to be his own work , although the truth is that he probably has the final say . |
| 19 | More worrying , perhaps , is that he happily accepts most people at home and outdoors , but sometimes shies away , even from people he 's met . |
| 20 | What he is saying is that he always wanted to drive , his family was against it and he defied them and did it |
| 21 | ‘ The great thing about him is that he always wants the ball and always wants to use it . |
| 22 | I 've only been in Dick 's flat once and the most interesting thing I 've gleaned about him is that he never uses washing-up liquid and he has a rather interesting pile of yellowing press cuttings sitting on a shelf . |
| 23 | ‘ The trouble with him , ’ said Pooley , ‘ is that he never seems to keep his mind on anything . |
| 24 | I noted earlier that Marx recognised the social and political ‘ materiality ’ of lines of demarcation other than those of property holding in the ‘ Eighteenth Brumaire ’ : nonetheless what is striking in this passage is that he never settled accounts with the general theory which denied such factors any pertinence in the long run . |
| 25 | He enjoys music his one regret is that he never learned to play a musical instrument and is chairman of the newly-established music society which is putting on a season of classical concerts in the throne room at Bishop Auckland Castle . |
| 26 | The first is : if your father ran off with someone only a couple of years older than you , what this probably means is that he really wanted to run off with you . |
| 27 | What causes offence is that he merely represents a shifting of values for the mass of young people . |
| 28 | The doubt is that he perhaps did n't take into consideration of the women who are available . |
| 29 | The difference , and the difficulty , for the television reporter is that he inevitably becomes a partner in this process of suppression . |
| 30 | The nicest thing about my dad is that he often takes me along to work with him . |