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

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1 Charles had chosen to stay in Scotland because it was the perfect time of year for all the activities he enjoyed there .
2 Her husband , who had been so attentive in the sunshine , was back on home territory , in the place he loved best on earth , surrounded by the people and the activities he loved most .
3 When I think of him sighing in the lane on the other side of the Park he seems far too close to home , far too much a part of all the difficult things in life .
4 Her husband dutifully obliged in Round 14 with the blow he 'd practically invented — a left deep into the abdomen .
5 Here is the social democrat refusing to condemn the absurdities he chronicles so well ; or simply producing half-baked observations .
6 But later in the afternoon he finished well down the fleet , as he did on Monday , so his chances now are extremely slim .
7 For a number of years after he ascended the throne he remained highly deferential to gentry concerns .
8 He did not pay the money he owed immediately .
9 She had already told Colin very firmly that she did not expect to be billed for any handling charge from him in view of the money he had already had — which was in fact a smaller sum .
10 The money he had fruitlessly spent was equal to what he successfully gained .
11 He wanted desperately to forget himself and who he was , or had hoped to be ; now , there was little hope , for the money he had carefully set aside for his expected purposes would not last for another year , and he had no employment .
12 His next film was very laid back and one , he admitted , which was the clearest-cut job of acting for the money he had ever done … and he vowed he would never do that again .
13 Over his face quivered shades of the sniggers he had just been enjoying with his mates .
14 Darwin himself held back the views he had already formed until 1859 .
15 The views he expresses here are his own , and do not necessarily reflect those of Survivors Speak Out .
16 He told her he had been thinking of the text he had just learnt , ‘ Prepare to meet thy God , ’ and perhaps he might die tonight , and he did not know if he was ready , if his sins were all forgiven …
17 At the Kynoch family 's invitation , Mr D'Silva joined the board as chief executive with a mandate to move the company out of textiles and into the field he knew best medical devices .
18 He is shown contrasting an original dipping pen — the kind he once used , with the computer he uses today .
19 Gripping the edge of the blanket he moved as close to the fearsome head as he dared .
20 He did n't find writing easy and the bit he liked best was his signature , an elaborate affair of practised flourishes .
21 And Chapman , 51 , was so traumatised by the experience he vowed never to get back behind the wheel , magistrates heard .
22 Within twenty-four hours of starting to take the drug he became very nearly himself again — his very nicest self , gentle , amusing and above all calm .
23 One of the reasons he travelled often from Stuttgart to France was to enjoy meals at Strasbourg or Riquewihr or Illhäusern .
24 The defence lawyer for a captain of the Fijian army ( who was convicted in 1990 of planning the abduction of university lecturer Dr Anirudh Singh ) said that his client ‘ was merely passing on … = the skills he got overseas ’ .
25 He put all the skills he had ever learned into the timbre of his voice .
26 Surely Jake deserved a wife precisely like Janice — the gold-digger he 'd always accused Shiona of being .
27 With a screech of brakes , and a squeal of wheels , Bodie reversed into a parking space and shot back along the route he had just taken .
28 Glasser was to be the author of a study of a Calabrian village , and the Spanish war bears a bleak meaning in the story he tells here .
29 Alone in his study , he finishes the story he wrote especially for her , the story about the parrot ; he bellows it out ‘ like a gorilla ’ ( 1876 ) .
30 As Montgomery showed the professor to the door , he was struck by areas of similarity between the story he had just heard , and the past history of Sergeant Bird .
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