Example sentences of "[pron] he [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd better break the engagement now , ’ I said , thinking my mother very foolish for not realising that what appealed to Syl was my very paleness , my silence , my hostility , which he mostly construed as shyness , until I was unpleasant , and when I was unpleasant he took it as evidence of some depth in my feeling for him and found it sexually alluring . |
| 2 | His departure was thought to improve the ruling Social Credit Party 's prospects ( from which he also resigned as leader ) , with an election due in 1991 , of withstanding the challenge of Canada 's increasingly successful social democratic New Democratic Party ( NDP — for its September 1990 provincial election victory in Ontario see p. 37705 ) . |
| 3 | Scotland , which he also claimed as part of his sphere of primatial authority , was cut off by the barrier of the province of York . |
| 4 | Each Saturday morning Eric would fly to Udine from Rome in one of the Desert Air Force bombers , in which he nearly froze to death , then hitch a lift from there to Verona — the huge Fiat was not part of the service . |
| 5 | He retained an affection for Paris and a gratitude for the intellectual advantages that it had given him to which he later referred as pope . |
| 6 | It may have been during this period that he was supported by a canonry in St Peter 's , to which he later referred as pope . |
| 7 | Eliot may have experienced displeasure at racial mixing in After Strange Gods , which he later withdrew from print as ‘ a bad book ’ , but it was no coincidence that in the same year as the performance of The Rock he defended Frazer , but attacked Ezra Pound 's favourite , Leo Frobenius , whose anthropological doctrines of racial purity he found particularly distasteful . |
| 8 | He does not require an imperative to make him avoid the sickness from the thought of which he already shrinks in nausea ; what he has to force himself to do is hold on to the fact that sickness is the likely outcome of yielding to temptation . |
| 9 | Peter has to be content with the single class reader provided by the school , which he already knows by heart . |
| 10 | In the midst of fraught domestic politics and Anglo-papal aggravations , Bubwith was twice translated in reshuffles in 1407 , first to Salisbury ( which he never visited as bishop ) and then to Bath and Wells , not unwillingly . |
| 11 | Rather he asserted and tried to use effectively in the 1760s and 1770s powers which he undoubtedly possessed in theory but which under his predecessors had begun to be whittled away in practice . |
| 12 | At the end of the day , they presented David with a complete baseball outfit , padded shoulders , football helmet , which he proudly brought to school the following day . |
| 13 | He amalgamated parts of human bodies to create a ‘ monster ’ , which he then brought to life . |
| 14 | The isolation of the village from the outside world was mitigated by the existence of a close-knit village community with which the farm worker could identify and which provided him with the range of institutions and amenities which he then required in order to live the year round . |
| 15 | Now it was worth five times what he paid for it , a fact on which he often dwelt with satisfaction . |
| 16 | ‘ Jackie Jones might n't hesitate to run to Sister about something he only overheard by chance . |
| 17 | He was considered to be a mouthpiece for Bouterse , whom he immediately reinstated as Army Commander-in-Chief . |
| 18 | It was important that , to begin with , Clive was to approach only people whom he already knew by sight — even if he had never actually spoken to them before . |
| 19 | Always hitting straight , he started by launching into the left-arm spin of Henry , whom he twice lifted over long-on for six . |
| 20 | He also found service with Peter des Roches , bishop of Winchester [ q.v. ] , a leading political rival of Langton and Poer , whom Elias none the less assisted with the foundation of monastic houses in Selborne and Titchfield , and for whom he subsequently acted as executor . |
| 21 | He had the usual run of furtive sexual fumblings and persuaded three of his girlfriends ( whom he then held in contempt ) to go all the way . |
| 22 | What he obviously had in mind was the manoeuvre carried out by horsemen displaying their skill at a gymkhana . |
| 23 | And playing alongside white men he endured a decade-and-a-half of bitter scorn from people of his own race , in what he now recognises as racism in reverse . |