Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His re-election to Parliament came in 1679 in Rochester , for which borough he sat until 1690 ; thereafter , until 1694 , he represented Queenborough and finally Maidstone again in 1695–8 . |
| 2 | Appropriately , he has sent us a letter about a piece he saw in last Thursday 's Diary . |
| 3 | The white football he regarded as another non-starter . |
| 4 | When he returned to Africa to work in journalism it was to the Gold Coast he came in 1934 . |
| 5 | Aston Villa manager Ron Atkinson could also run the gauntlet of hostility at Hillsborough today when he goes back to the club he left under acrimonious circumstances two seasons ago . |
| 6 | The biggest change has come within the ranks of the SDLP where Martin Bradley , Mark Durkan , Kathleen McCloskey , Margaret McCartney and Wilfred White have all been elected for the first time and Pat Ramsey makes a return to the Council chamber having reclaimed the seat he lost in 1989 . |
| 7 | The Nationalists suffered an early and bitter blow in Glasgow Govan when Mr Jim Sillars , the party 's deputy leader , lost the seat he won from Labour in a spectacular by-election in 1988 . |
| 8 | Pieper is quite frank about buying customer base , the result he anticipates from these other joint ventures . |
| 9 | Mrs Pouncey is at present editing his diaries , drawing attention to entries such as one for October 1949 , when , between 7.17 am and 12.25 pm he visited no less than twelve Roman churches , certainly with the intense concentration he devoted to each of the many visits they made to Italy together . |
| 10 | The Shah 's confusion was evident in an interview he gave to one of the journalists whom he had known the longest , Clare Hollingworth of the Daily Telegraph of London . |
| 11 | Later still when too weak even for these outings , he would lie in his bed overlooking the grounds of the Serampore College he established in 1822 . |
| 12 | She had seen for herself the effect he had on many of his clients ; had herself been impressed by his ability to amuse them with his quick wit and entertaining anecdotes . |
| 13 | COMIC Lenny Henry rivals the grin on the trophy he won for best TV comedy at the Radio Times Comedy and Drama Awards in London yesterday . |
| 14 | Thirty years afterwards Charles still felt deeply the humiliation he suffered at this time ; but unlike some little princes in similar situations , he lived , politically as well as literally , to fight another day . |
| 15 | Imagine how much time and effort would be required if each speaker had to establish the denotation of each term he produced on each occasion of use . |
| 16 | Shortly after taking over one of the most sensitive posts in the recently formed conservative government of Edouard Balladur , France 's new Minister of Culture , fifty-one year old RPR Gaullist Jacques Toubon said he intended keeping ‘ cultural affairs ’ — a term he prefers to that of ‘ culture ’ — separate from any philosophy of State or political or doctrinal message . |
| 17 | When asked why he chose ‘ Horizon ’ as the name for the ensemble he formed in 1980 , Bobby Watson answered : ‘ Because I define the word as ‘ a vision that 's both moving forward and forward looking ’ — that 's what my concept of the band is ’ . |
| 18 | It proved to be Gooch 's day ; with Slack he put on 89 for the second wicket in seventeen overs , setting the foundations for the later onslaught . |
| 19 | In all this writing the emphasis was usually very heavily , as in the past , on the obligation of the diplomat to defend jealously the honour of the sovereign he represented against any claim , any change in ceremonial , which might be construed as the slightest threat to it . |
| 20 | Vincent had grasped early on that his deep-seated , recurring fearfulness in the face of life was a condition he shared with many nineteenth-century artists . |
| 21 | This mixed condition he shares with many others , not all of them writers ; it is a condition we are entitled to call traditional . |
| 22 | Throughout the autumn and winter he suffered from feverish colds and attacks of bronchitis , and was often forced to take to his bed for a week or fortnight at a time . |
| 23 | In the winter he plays with some of them most weeks , either at Oswestry or Aberdovey , where he has a mobile home close to the first tee . |
| 24 | One day in a bar he ran into two of the people who 'd attended the meetings , Dan Wolf and Ed Fancher . |
| 25 | Poverty , however , forced him to abandon teaching and become a kasabat kadi , in which capacity he served in several towns . |
| 26 | After short periods as general manager and chief engineer of the Mutual and the New Telephone Companies he set up in practice in 1893 as a consulting telephone and telegraph engineer , in which capacity he acted as consulting engineer to the telephone departments of Guernsey ( 1896–1921 ) and Glasgow ( 1900–4 ) , as well as Portsmouth , Hull , Brighton , and Swansea ( 1900–11 ) . |
| 27 | He also had difficulties with Bishop Ælfstan of Rochester , whose diocese he ravaged in 986 , and Bishop Æthelsige of Sherborne , who incurred the king 's anger , was expelled from his see , and went abroad never to return . |
| 28 | During lunch he listened to animated discussions on the iniquities of British taxation , the necessity for bringing back hanging , indiscipline in schools and the general supine attitude of British politicians . |
| 29 | After bodyguard work he turned to full time military journalism in 1985 ; and has been a frequent and major contributor to the French magazine RAIDS . |
| 30 | Like Caton , Berger attempted to record electrical responses to sensory stimuli in animals , although it seems that the work he did between 1902 and 1910 was , in general , unsuccessful . |