Example sentences of "and [adv] the [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Healey was a remarkable man who devoted his whole adult life to the cause of deaf people , both in Liverpool and nationally first through the N.D.D.S. and thence the B.D.D.A. He was born in Gateacre , Liverpool and lost his hearing at the age of three months as a result of brain fever following a fall from the arms of his nurse , although his deafness was not discovered until he was two years old . |
| 2 | And so the other he 's there if you want is n't he ? |
| 3 | According to a report in the Financial Times of Canada , the court ruled that the man concerned was not in the business of being a thief and so the cash he had stolen was not ‘ income ’ for the purposes of the law . |
| 4 | Well John was saying to me , that eh , Bill is such a perfectionist that although he 's done good works already , he will ensure that every single corner of that house will be immaculate and exactly the way he wants it , but it 'll take him three or four years to do it . |
| 5 | ‘ And always the possibility he was killed because of something to do with his time in the secret service . ’ |
| 6 | And also the way he makes films . |
| 7 | She was already asleep , and even the manoeuvring he had to do to remove her pack and settle her in his arms failed to rouse her . |
| 8 | Its hero has lost wife , mistress and even the cause he fights in , since the war against dictatorship lost most of its point for Waugh on a day in June 1941 when Hitler invaded Russia . |
| 9 | And then the minute he wants something — which is only ever one thing — you 're all over him , making it easy for him and when he 's got what he want he says ‘ Thank you very much . |
| 10 | Using his wings he begins to glide downwards , and by dropping one wing tip and then the other he guides himself towards the enemy army and his chosen target . |
| 11 | There was a momentary pause , and then the sentence he had typed was repeated in soft tones through the right-hand earpiece . |
| 12 | Like the characters and indeed the reader he or she is simply a collection of codes : ‘ The ‘ I ’ which approaches the text is already itself a plurality of other texts , of codes which are infinite , or more precisely , lost ( whose origin is lost ) ’ ( p. 10 ) . |
| 13 | Now the name was not a famous one , the cloth merchant having lived his life in the comparative obscurity common to most of us , and my patient had never before visited that part of the country — and yet the details he unearthed coincided perfectly with the facts he had given me during his regression . |
| 14 | And now , writing the same novel all his life , Dostoevsky finds himself doomed to confront suicide as deed , perhaps life 's one deed and therefore the podvig he is seeking . |