Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] [conj] he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house wore a permanently uncompleted air as if , sixty years before , the builder had intended it to be part of a pair of semi-detached houses but had run out of money or enthusiasm before he started on the second one . |
| 2 | seize , render harmless or destroy any substance or article that he considers to be the cause of imminent danger of serious personal injury . |
| 3 | The flashes of ridicule or condescension that he directed at the " old men " in Vichy undermined confidence in his opponents . |
| 4 | Mr Farraday will usually have just returned from his short walk on the downs at that point , so he is rarely engrossed in his reading or writing as he tends to be in the evenings . |
| 5 | It was partly a gift for adaptability , partly a sense of fun or interest that he brought to any situation . |
| 6 | The factory which was in Leith had what would now he called a creche where the children could it and play and he looked after whilst the mothers got on with the ground sheets … and the war . |
| 7 | The frequency with which his name appeared in the press , in Art News and Review where he appeared in ‘ Portrait of the Artist ’ ( also contributing a drawing of S. John Woods for the same series ) , in The Leader and Picture Post , confirmed his role as celebrity . |
| 8 | It does not mean , however , that he should not exercise his franchise and vote as he wishes at local government elections , but he should not be a party man otherwise his advice might be regarded as being tainted and the council as a whole , in the end , would cease to have confidence in his advice . |
| 9 | Deep down , well hidden beneath the façade of arrogance and ice that he presented to the world , a warm , caring heart beat within Adam Burns . |
| 10 | He was well aware that many of his remedies were extremely poisonous in crude doses and from this developed his system of serial dilution and succussion as he experimented with successive dilutions in order to achieve a healing effect without producing toxic side-effects . |
| 11 | PLAYER : Lucianus , nephew to the king … usurped by his uncle and shattered by his mother 's incestuous marriage … loses his reason … throwing the court into turmoil and disarray as he alternates between bitter melancholy and unrestricted lunacy … staggering from the suicidal ( A pose ) to the homicidal ( Here he kills " POLONIUS " ) … he at last confronts his mother and in a scene of provocative ambiguity — ( A somewhat oedipal embrace ) begs her to repent and recant — ( He springs up , still talking . ) |
| 12 | The young eagle trembled with fear , and then shivered with cold and loneliness as he looked at the cage that surrounded him , and above to where the bars and wire mesh stood out harshly against the lowering sky . |
| 13 | STEPHEN HENDRY continues to walk a tightrope between success and failure as he strives for the form that made him world champion just ten months ago . |
| 14 | It must be fierce about preserving Nehru 's creed of secularism , but equally fierce about ditching the failed policies of economic interventionism and self-sufficiency that he attached to it . |
| 15 | Niki got his training in fortitude and temperance when he moved to Ferrari , where they do not like drivers to be so adventuresome as to wreck cars ; James-took a year longer to learn his lesson , at McLaren . |
| 16 | Richard Baxter preached with great urgency and seriousness as he pleaded with sinners to ‘ embrace the Redeemer with a lively faith ’ . |
| 17 | Clearly many men are as capable of deep love and attachment as women , but usually more of their emotional energy is invested in their world of work outside the home , and unless a woman also has an outside career role and some interests separate from his , she relies much more on her husband for her happiness and fulfilment than he does on her . |
| 18 | Anselm seems to have treated Rufus with more generosity and trustfulness than he showed to Henry I. This can probably be explained by his greater experience of the unreliability of kings ; perhaps also by a certain attractive openness in Rufus which the prudent and wily Henry lacked . |
| 19 | AN angler hooked a bag full of stolen watches and jewellery as he fished in a lock near Portsmouth . |
| 20 | Castro subsequently admitted that he had been opposed to the removal of the missiles , and his adamant refusal to allow US inspections to be carried out on Cuban territory ( despite Soviet pressure ) testifies to the anger and resentment that he felt over the fact that matters which vitally affected Cuban sovereignty were settled without his knowledge or consent . |
| 21 | In one of the most touching passages , he recalled coming up to America on his emigrant ship in 1955 , his father and brother and he standing by the rail , feeling this sense of opportunity , this relief that the bad times were over , that a new world was out there waiting to be conquered . |
| 22 | Gazzer remembered the depths of Simon 's contempt and hatred when he spoke of Marie and he felt more and more certain , as he neared the Lock , that Simon would need hardly any excuse to harm her . |
| 23 | Walter Raleigh , Merton Professor of English Language and Literature at Oxford , also emphasized this negative role for the intermediary between text and reader when he warned of the dangers of any " immodesty " on the part of the teacher . |
| 24 | He remembereth that we are but dust , the days of man are but grass for he flourishes as a flower of the field , for as soon as the wind goes over it , it is gone and the thereof shall know it no more . |