Example sentences of "[noun] [that] he [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Behind his hostility lay a conviction that the Roman Church represented a corruption of an earlier , undefiled religion that he associated with the Egyptians .
2 Mark fell onto the road with such force that he went into a coma from which he never recovered .
3 The German escapement action Stein employed in all the pianos that he made after the piano in the vis-á-vis instrument can be seen as a transformation of the Cristofori-Silbermann piano action .
4 At the utmost , the allegation that he relied on the testator 's promise seems to me to import no more than that he believed the testator would be as good as his word .
5 The formalities were gone through — including , in this case , the obtaining of a marriage licence ; the bachelor of St Ethelburga 's parish made an allegation that he knew of no lawful impediment why he should not marry the girl from St Dunstan 's in the West , and it was there that they became man and wife on 21 June 1799 .
6 It was in that terrible moment of loss that he noticed for the first time the eagle in the cage on the other side of his from where Minch 's cage was .
7 He was different from them , did n't eat in the kitchen with us , but had my mother bake him potatoes and grate carrots that he ate in the isolation of the dining room .
8 The tactics that he employed during the crisis were vintage de Gaulle , for better and for worse .
9 In fact , it was while he was up for the interview that he read in The Times the advertisement that had brought him to Burleigh :
10 One may quibble with some of Jakobson 's distinctions and classifications , but it must be stressed that these are only a small selection of the multitude of relationships that he identifies in the space of this short poem .
11 Alan and I served er , together as er , deputy Chairs , or vice-Chairs or whatever the appropriate words are for several years er , and I erm , well I think I would adopt the words that he used about the experience that he has had in the Chair , to whit , that his companionship and his contribution to our affairs has been stimulating , enlightening and particularly enjoyable .
12 We shall remember words that he used in an interview with The Independent : ’ If we have changed our mind to win we can change our mind when we have won .
13 Since it would have been unlikely that many property offenders would have been able to pay the fines that he advocated , they would mostly have been subjected to the forced labour that he proposed as the alternative .
14 We hounded him to such effect that he responded in the classic 1970s way and set up no less than an official committee of inquiry to consider the whole position .
15 It was not Billingsley 's physical size that provoked that fear , for I was of a size with him , nor was it his profession that gave me pause , but rather the aura of incipient violence that he radiated like a blast furnace .
16 Whatever the motivation , these amalgamations may happen several times during the months that he cares for the flock .
17 From thence he progressed into Formula Ford , with an Alexis that he bought on the never-never .
18 For Wolf was " the first to present a systematic description of the vast fabric that he called by the name of Altertumswissenschaft , to arrange and review its component parts and to point to a perfect knowledge of the many-sided life of the ancient Greeks and Romans as the final goal of the modern study of the ancient world .
19 They mean in essence that he complies with the procedural expectations of the institution .
20 I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for the compliment that he paid to the special branch and to the RUC .
21 My right hon. Friend was correct and was entitled to raise the case that he did in the House just now .
22 Nor did he reveal any keener affinity with Schubert in the rather mechanical , plainly stated accompaniments that he provided for the mezzo Yvonne Howard .
23 The trustee may at any time give notice to a secured creditor that he proposes at the end of twenty-eight days to redeem the security at the value placed upon it by the creditor in his proof .
24 And whilst I have gone to Middleton 's grave in the village of Mildenhall , I have found that I could in no way criticise his rejection of my plea that he stayed with the Pathfinders .
25 And it was undoubtedly at this deeply atavistic and liberating level that he responded from the first to tribal art .
26 All heads turned as his father gave him such a clip that he landed in the muddy , freshly dug grave behind him .
27 In 1155 he became abbot of St Victor : several letters and charters attest his financial vigilance and the practical support that he received from the English pope , Hadrian IV [ q.v . ] .
28 I thought for a second he was going to burn it , but instead he tore it into tiny scraps that he tossed into the warm wind .
29 His vision leads him to seek a saviour that he finds in the proletariat , albeit heavily cloaked in ‘ ideology ’ .
30 His active opposition to the Nazis , the leading part that he played in the Kirchenkampf , the struggle against the Nazi attempt to take over the German Evangelical Church , and his refusal to take the oath of loyalty to Hitler , led to his dismissal from Bonn in 1935 .
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