Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] he [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps once he had time to spare from his new duties , he would check up . |
| 2 | But I have to tell you that a man such as Niccolò needs sons less than he needs marriage , and needs a woman at present not at all . |
| 3 | Daedalus expects that his under-pressured volunteers will lose appetite and be quite happy on two meals a day , especially if he provides airline food . |
| 4 | It is most important that the pupil , especially if he has difficulty with spelling , should see you as a sympathetic helper who wants him to learn , and not as an examiner who only tells him he 's wrong . |
| 5 | Every Lord Chancellor , especially if he holds office as long as did Halsbury , will make some mistakes ( and Heuston suggests that as many as three of the six were ‘ unlucky ’ appointments ) but Halsbury 's experience may suggest that the proportion of bad appointments is likely to be statistically higher amongst appointments made from the Lord Chancellor 's political associates . |
| 6 | ‘ Well sir , I think we can rule out natural causes and I ca n't see how dynamite could accidentally get under a table , so unless he committed suicide in a way that endangered the lives of other people , I think we must assume it was murder . |
| 7 | Perhaps because he needed art so much himself , Basil never for one moment doubted the overwhelming importance of art education in the development of ordinary but real people . |
| 8 | He was acquitted , apparently because he had support within the royal household , and because the bishops united to reject the evidence of an inferior against one of themselves . |
| 9 | Whatever the theory , Paul VI 's pontificate acted out dramatically the tensions between primacy and collegiality — but this came about only because he took collegiality seriously . |
| 10 | This letter belonged to a time long before he became archbishop , but promotion did not change his mind . |
| 11 | In fairness to Courier , however , who made his Davis Cup debut long before he became world number one and when others , such as Andre Agassi , were ‘ not available ’ , there is no shortage of patriotism on his part . |
| 12 | From the rate of flow , Zhukov would be dead from loss of blood long before he regained consciousness . |
| 13 | He clenched his teeth together before he lost control and cried out . |
| 14 | Only after he committed suicide in February 1988 did the mass media acknowledge his talents and create a Bashlachev boom . |
| 15 | Only after he dropped Hanger off did the driver realise who his passenger was . |
| 16 | He was certainly living on Iona on the eve of Ecgfrith 's final campaign , and there may well have been a delay of a month or so before he became king , but to suppose a delay of seven months or more seems unwarranted . |
| 17 | Not long after he took office , John Major spoke of taking 30 seats in Scotland . |
| 18 | She was about his age , and in the chronic torpid state that overcame him daily as he faced work , he could not make his embarrassment at her gesture connect with his limbs . |
| 19 | In many firms there will be no room for dispute as to who should fill the position and for how long , ie the most experienced member of the partnership for as long as he remains hale and hearty . |
| 20 | Earlier , avoiding Matey 's compressed lips , he had picked up the whisky bottle and reached for a glass — anything , so long as he achieved oblivion , surcease from pain — and then he had heard her voice again , in the corridor at the church hall , mockingly telling him to retreat to it . |
| 21 | Only when he exerted pressure against the sphincter muscle which guarded that secret orifice , did she realise his intention . |
| 22 | He saw something erm he saw a cat and he zoomed out the front door and he was gone and it 's only when he lost sight of the cat he thought about where he was |
| 23 | The biggest threat , he predicted , was the presence of that ‘ gloomy shadow master : master Albrecht Dürer knew it well enough when he placed Death behind the young couple in that beautiful etching . ’ |
| 24 | So why should he require this additional radio , especially when he had access to — and was probably the only user of — the much superior radio in his radio-room ? ’ |
| 25 | So when he said murder , even that was not sure , but it was going to be a relief to be investigating a crime in which he had no personal connection and of which he could not be suspected . |
| 26 | So when he experiences doubt , it is he , not his belief , that has been weighed and found wanting . |
| 27 | Like many of the gentry all over the country , he was convinced that the wound now bleeding Christendom might yet be healed , and the Church , the Body of Christ , made whole ; so when he gave sanctuary to young men on their way to train as priests in France , or secret agents from Spain or Ireland , he did so believing that he was acting in the best interests of his country , claiming that if anyone was a traitor it was the ardent puritans like Walsingham and Drake , who by their political manoeuvrings and piratical attacks on Spanish merchantmen were pushing the Queen remorselessly into a confrontation with King Philip of Spain . |
| 28 | So when he sees Rose staring at him with her dark , serious eyes among the crowds on the staircases in the interval ( this is at a concert ) he does n't hesitate for a moment , but goes straight up to her . |
| 29 | How dare you call the fund to raise money for your poxy magazine the Lemon Fund , just because he uses lemon on his hair ! |
| 30 | Complete silence was expected nightly while he took stock of the world : ‘ after supper , the paper was unfolded and the old man began reading the four pages ; woe betide if any noise or talking was indulged in by the family until the task was completed . ’ |