Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] a [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He had spent years building a team he could trust to do anything in his absence . |
| 2 | Constantine had sponsored the building of a cathedral adjoining a palace he had assigned to the bishop , and of some great memorial churches on the edges of the city . |
| 3 | IN HIS book , All the Presidents ' Wits , Gerald Gardner quotes Ronald Reagan remembering a speech he gave in Mexico City as Californian governor which created so little applause he was embarrassed when he sat down . |
| 4 | Like Henry , for a dream of empire ; but his dream was a pageant in the sun through a conquered land , over soil alien to him , among people speaking a language he knows , perhaps , but not his own ; and mine is of a country preserved and perpetuated , peopled with my own blood , speaking my native tongue , and the work is to be mine , and the fruit for David and for Wales , after I 'm gone . |
| 5 | Suddenly , Rildia Bee heard the piece being played exquisitely in the next room , and beheld her own tiny to perched on the bench playing an instrument he had never before touched , and playing it already with transcendent genius . |
| 6 | In cases involving an employer he will probably have to be interviewed later . |
| 7 | A man wearing a hat he 'd painted and twisted into an unrecognizable shape shuffled along the corridor , pointing upwards with a contorted grimace . |
| 8 | Basically , they grew out of a thought process which was perhaps a little too logical , but logical all the same , relating to works made with your hands : you can cut off the artist 's hands and still end up with something which is a product of the artist 's choice since , on the whole , when an artist paints using a palette he is choosing the colours . |