Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] and he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his blood seemed to be flowing at twice the normal Speed and he stood carefully , so that he could see the doorway . |
| 2 | ‘ Kenny has been competing since the junior level and he has done so very successfully , ’ said Mr Sullivan . |
| 3 | He proved incapable of imposing his leadership on the political system and he failed to bring about significant public policy change . |
| 4 | Aranjuez , however , had clarified Napoleon 's muddled thinking on the Spanish question and he had no intention of using the opportunity it presented in order to support a puppet king whose character and intentions he mistrusted . |
| 5 | However , Nagel is well aware that Smith himself had doubts as to the social validity of the subjective principle and he cites a passage from The Theory of Moral Sentiments : |
| 6 | ‘ But he comes out at the right time and he stays on his line at the right time . |
| 7 | A murder weapon had been discovered in Parkin 's desk , David Parkin had been in the right place at the right time and he had a conceivable motive to kill the television reporter . |
| 8 | Er the chance of rejecting everything on the table , well he 's now taking it back and he accepts the point , the point about the Regional Policy and he accepts the point about a National Policy . |
| 9 | I asked him , I said before we go any further , can you get these with the complete package and he said no , they 're all going back to the N H S typed thing because that 's the look , the look people want |
| 10 | But by the latter part of the 1970s he experienced an irresistible urge to return to the private sector and he had a very clear idea of how he would go about it . |
| 11 | We did get through some pretty hot language , erm he did say that this would destroy the tripartite system and he quoted me and said that I said it was a system which was the end of the world . |
| 12 | In 1882 Archibald Geikie was appointed director-general of the Geological Survey and he moved to London , leaving vacant the directorship of the Scottish survey and the Murchison chair of geology at Edinburgh University , which he had held concurrently with his survey post . |
| 13 | The hon. Gentleman asked whether the funding council would be the creature of the Scottish Office and he asked where public accountability would be . |
| 14 | With a shrill yelp she nipped him in the hind leg and he shot away in alarm . |
| 15 | And he 'd got a strip of steel about four inches the half inch and he stuck at the back of his , i it was a long seat that were a four of us sat on with iron legs and they stuck it in the wood and you 'd flip it and it i , you know how it would sto |
| 16 | ‘ Not really , I just kick the back door and he sticks his head out . ’ |
| 17 | Yeah , I found , only because I went out one night , and , it was when Mike was still next door and what I 'd done I 'd locked him in the back room and he said he was howling |
| 18 | Ell was in the wrong place and he felt sorry for her . |
| 19 | But now was the wrong moment and he found himself wondering wryly when the right moment might be . |
| 20 | ‘ I stopped a policeman in the High Street and he radioed in the information I gave him . |
| 21 | Much of the town was in darkness , but there was noise coming from one of the inns in the High Street and he decided to make enquiries there . |
| 22 | He swerved sharply to the left but his leg hit the edge of the wooden stand and he fell heavily to the ground , spilling an assortment of fruit across the pavement . |
| 23 | Six months in the top flight and he thinks he 's f***ing Brian Sewell to the football world . |
| 24 | Over a lifetime these two strategies yield almost the same number of offspring but an older male clearly needs the quicker success and he takes the greater risk . |
| 25 | And Archie tied one of the ropes to the box of groceries and we pull it across ; and then we tie the other rope to the empty box and he pull it across empty ready to fill it up again . |
| 26 | He will soon be seen as a bartender in the comedy The Linguini Incident and he has a cameo as a FBI agent in David Lynch 's Twin Peaks : Fire Walk With Me . |
| 27 | In August 1918 my father was recalled to London to report to the Foreign Office and he did not get back until mid-December . |
| 28 | I suppose we 've been rivals in the past , when I had my column on the Daily Mail and he had his on the Daily Express , but we 've been rivals in the friendliest of terms . |
| 29 | His foot slipped on the wet grass and he fell . |
| 30 | He was busy , he spent a lot of time in the fresh air and he looked happy and carefree . |