Example sentences of "and the [noun pl] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We decided to present him with a small token which he can take to his new life , and keep in memory of his bachelor days and the friends he has left behind . |
| 2 | And the wings he has now began in his heart , |
| 3 | The main purpose of the play is not only to show the murder of Claudius , but also , and more significantly , to show the character of Hamlet and the problems he has in accepting what he has to do . |
| 4 | Florian 's face had lit up and the questions he started asking fizzed with enthusiasm , but Maria knew that the exchange would only drive his restlessness into temporary remission , not cure it . |
| 5 | William had not been happy at having to work through the night and at weekends and the tasks he had had to perform were not always pleasant . |
| 6 | Also in Stewart Park , next to the birthplace site , is the award-winning museum commemorating the early life and achievements of James Cook in the area , his three great voyages and the lands he visited . |
| 7 | Sir Alexander Cadogan , made chairman in 1952 , had never seen a BBC television programme , and the ones he had seen , in the United States , he did n't much care for . |
| 8 | At that time there were never any buskers in Baker Street station and the ones he saw were at Leicester Square or Green Park . |
| 9 | First , that Nigel would refuse entry to anyone to whom he took a dislike , and the ones he did like he would n't want to charge , a distinct disadvantage from a business point of view . |
| 10 | And the hotels he put up , he bought them in Glasgow , there 'd be an exhibition hotel made of wood , built in Glasgow . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Kelly smiled as she thought of his early attempts at cooking and the hours he 'd spent coaching and encouraging her while she 'd practised riding a finish on the back of the sofa . |
| 13 | But Joseph does n't really understand that , and the changes he sees are bizarre and a little frightening — the furniture slowly turns into animals , objects are no longer what they seem . |
| 14 | Miguel Rafaelo 's conversation was all about the village surgery , and the clinics he had set up there . |
| 15 | In The Malay Archipelago , Wallace describes eight years of study and collecting specimens among the islands of South-East Asia and the conclusions he reached about the distribution of their wildlife . |
| 16 | I only look towards someone like Dylan because I see the things that have happened in his career and the conclusions he 's come to and the way he 's responded to outside forces , the audience , the press … and I recognize a similarity to how I feel in my career . |
| 17 | ‘ And the reasons he decided to leave here are really his business . ’ |
| 18 | Alexander and the non-executives he has recruited , such as Sir Ian MacLaurin , Sir Michael Angus , Hanson 's Martin Taylor , and Sir Charles Powell , have decided to leap a generation in finding a manager to lead NatWest into the 21st century . |
| 19 | The buildings and the scripture-readings he loved , especially its evocative music ; but he was never conscious of ‘ surrendering my heart to worship , ’ only conscious that therein was ‘ the tree of life , for all who follow the path . ’ |
| 20 | The range of his talk was beyond me — even when not particularly profound , it was salted with allusions , and the connections he drew between things I had hitherto regarded as unconnected were startling . |
| 21 | Could you tell me anything about Foster ; where he lived and the dates he worked ? |
| 22 | Certainly both the account in the Office of his later career and the remarks he let drop in his own writings point to a friction in his situation which ultimately led him to leave the Daltons to seek a quiet place elsewhere . |
| 23 | Knowing the likely unpopularity of his mission , he concealed its purpose from the island 's inhabitants , and withdrew from their banquet early , with the excuse that he had been tired by the journey ; later , when they had gone exhausted to their beds , he entered Mildred 's church accompanied by selected monks and the soldiers he had prudently brought with him . |
| 24 | And the stars he does have are not going to get any better . |
| 25 | In the Great Charter he undertook to put out of the forest ‘ at once ’ the districts which he himself had afforested , and the rivers he had placed ‘ in defence ’ . |
| 26 | Forrest 's desk was of cheap pine , and the chairs he gestured to were not upholstered . |
| 27 | That frank acknowledgement of the new freedom between the sexes , which Modigliani and the women he loved enjoyed , was what offended the respectable Parisians . |
| 28 | So , in his will , he directed that an envelope he had deposited with the firm should be opened after his death and the instructions he had given in it carried out . |
| 29 | He was talking about the theatre and the writers he liked : Arden , Bond , Orton , Osborne , Wesker , each suffocated just by being in his mouth for a minute . |
| 30 | He refused to live under a regime which sanctioned the burning of books ; nor , since many of his friends and the writers he published were Jewish — as , indeed , he sometimes felt himself to be — would he tolerate the government 's anti-Semitism . |