Example sentences of "[vb pp] in [noun] [conj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Brandreth has been campaigning for the Army 's new pay and personnel centre to be located in Chester and he led two delegations from the city to see Mr Hanley 's predecessor , Archie Hamilton . |
| 2 | He realised that he was , in fact , looking at a man , so heavily clothed , hatted and booted in furs that he could have made a fortune doing tricks at the Glasgow Fair . |
| 3 | Delaney took hold of Lawton 's shoulder and squeezed in time as he counted down . |
| 4 | My brother-in-law was educated in Paris but he is an idealist whose unorthodox views are not shared by myself or many of our countrymen , cut in Tran Van Hieu hastily . |
| 5 | Yousefi , 37 , was caught in London as he tried to cash a cheque at a bank . |
| 6 | They finished , and his red lips curled in satisfaction as he watched the student assemble papers and books and leave . |
| 7 | The inference which might be drawn from this analysis was that Eliot himself had conceived a homosexual passion for just such a young man and , when the article was reprinted four years after Eliot 's death , it was suggested to be Jean Verdenal , the Frenchman whom Eliot had met in Paris when he was a student there and to whom , after his death in the First World War , he dedicated Prufrock and Other Observations . |
| 8 | John thought him ‘ a most remarkable boy , and certainly the most talented artist I 've yet met in S.A. If he can design costumes or not is another question . |
| 9 | There was , of course , now a great deal more interest in Eliot than in the play , but he had stipulated in advance that he was not to be subjected to any form of publicity : no press conferences , no interviews , no speeches ; as a result , he was much more relaxed at the first night and was even able to laugh at his own jokes . |
| 10 | ’ I had explained that while this was probably in the best of taste and unlikely to be very illegal , it was already being done in California and he 'd be pushed to get third party insurance cover . |
| 11 | His whole body jerked in denial as he made for the drawing-room . |
| 12 | In particular , the energy department has been reluctant to talk about a carbon tax , an idea which Mr Nicholas Ridley , the environment secretary has said in cabinet that he is keen to explore . |
| 13 | Geoffrey 's wine-flushed face was wreathed in smiles as he gripped her hand more firmly . |
| 14 | on appeal upheld that defendant with his handicap should have had in contemplation that he was likely to mis-hit the ball . |
| 15 | One project that Warnke has had in mind since he came to Hamburg in 1982 , has been finding more space for the art history department , and to this end he has had his eye on the former Warburg house with its famous oval reading room , conceived by Aby Warburg and opened to readers in 1926 , one year after his death . |
| 16 | If you read his book you will see that what he seems to have had in mind when he coined the phrase about man being " an invention of recent date and one perhaps nearing its end " was something like this . |
| 17 | It was n't what Peter had had in mind when he had thought of the picnic . |
| 18 | I had not met him socially before , but we had once clashed in court when he was counsel representing the police at the Brabin Inquiry into the Timothy Evans case . |
| 19 | Businessman Norman Weller may have acted in self-defence when he killed a thug but he should have called the police . |
| 20 | actually Ronny Johnsen is even an attacker ( as shown in Poland-Norway when he netted as a substitute ) . |
| 21 | He had such a talent for self-dramatisation that I would n't have put it past him , on finding that plunger , to have invented the whole thing — except that I had watched in horror as he deliberately forced the wretched mestizo over the edge , thrusting at his face with that dummy hand until he had disappeared into the gorge below . |
| 22 | Vocational training developments may be based in FE and HE as well as in other training providers including companies . |
| 23 | Commenting on this , Sebba and Wootton ( 1984 : 8 ) write : The switch to Creole occurs before the first instance of " build " is " and this could be taken as a direct quotation of the man 's words , rendered in Creole because he is apparently a Jamaican : cf. |
| 24 | The outgoing person who has been doing the job should be consulted as part of this , although it should be borne in mind that he or she may have certain prejudices which preclude their giving a totally satisfactory answer . |
| 25 | With regard to the inspector 's decision to which you refer , it should be borne in mind that he was concerned with the effect which development would have , and where development would be suitable or unsuitable . |
| 26 | He did not register much surprise at this important discovery , but it needs to be borne in mind that he supposed that he had reached islands near the eastern shores of Asia rather than a land mass inaccessible to the descendents of Noah ! |
| 27 | The watchman had been schooled in security and he had been told not to open the door under any circumstances . |
| 28 | Samuel Katwere , editor of The Star , the only independent English-language newspaper , was arrested on Nov. 6 , 1989 , and held without charge over an article published in the paper on Sept. 22 , 1989 , which alleged that the managing director of the government-owned Ugandan Commercial Bank was being paid huge amounts in compensation for the death of two children during the war which brought Museveni to power , and further called Museveni a liar for defending the banker against allegations raised in parliament that he was being paid more than he was worth . |
| 29 | One day , sitting in a temple garden , he noticed a grasshopper and a praying mantis locked in battle and he observed that the mantis was fighting in a definite pattern . |
| 30 | I tried to impress upon the child that if he had landed in England before he met me , he would not have spoken English and people there might have regarded him as ridiculous . |