Example sentences of "the [adj] he [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 31 | David Hockney 's set designs are the first he has done for Covent Garden . |
| 32 | All of which brings us to his latest film , Breaking In , the first he has made entirely in the USA . |
| 33 | It 's his first er match or at least the first he 's started since the opening weeks of the season . |
| 34 | At least two of the five he had brought back with him were in worse case than he ; and Adam , who had perhaps come off lightest in actual injuries , was by no means to be envied for that , for the same story Owen had to tell to the Prince , Adam was at this moment telling to Gilleis . |
| 35 | The younger of the trio looked at McCann and Morton and decided he would be better advised not to try and reach the .38 he had jammed into his belt . |
| 36 | The first half of the route to Gooch 's century must be the rockiest he has travelled towards any of his 16 in Tests . |
| 37 | There were things he consciously noticed about people which he brought to mind long after he had ceased to watch them , but now he noted for the first time that she had very small feet — they could have belonged to the oriental he had imagined her to be through the sun haze . |
| 38 | Since the mid-50s he has designed well over 100 West End productions and has also worked at the National Theatre , the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Chichester Festival Theatre . |
| 39 | They were the two he had talked to on the previous search , the ones who had been taking such pains with the dovecot . |
| 40 | This time around Waris Hussein used a full complement of four cameras instead of the two he had opted to use in the pilot , having expressed a preference then to experiment with ‘ moving camera technique ’ . |
| 41 | He says that he did not kill you or your companions because you were unarmed , and anyway he thought that the two he killed intended to use their weapons on you . ’ |
| 42 | Richard Zanuck , vice-president of Twentieth Century-Fox , said it was the best he had seen . ’ |
| 43 | There she 'd been , aching for a night of passion and the best he 'd felt moved to offer her was a compliment on her dancing ! |
| 44 | Hardenberger also recalls that the BBC PO 's York performance of Endless Parade — a work so difficult in its string scoring that two or three other orchestras have actually refused to play it with him — is the best he has taken part in so far . |
| 45 | The thirty he had looked would seem old enough to a child of eleven . |
| 46 | As the eldest he had inherited the estate on the death of his father , but he had relinquished it to his brother Julian , the second elder . |
| 47 | The unsigned letter was the first to attack Roy in this way among the 6,000 he has received since his cancer was diagnosed in March . |
| 48 | Three of the four he had interviewed personally had been evasive , or told outright lies . |
| 49 | The inaugural exhibition at the new gallery the third he has organised with Galerie de Bayser comprises ten paintings and thirty-five drawings by artists including François-André Vincent , Louis Durameau , Antoine Vaudoyer , Jean-Baptiste Isabey , Jean-Antoine Gros , Eugène Fromentin and Théodule Ribot . |
| 50 | The last he had heard she had returned to Ponten VI — the planet which had been ceded to the Guild of Adjudicators in perpetuity by a wary but appreciative Earth Central — but that was too far away for anything but the so-called pigeon post ; recorded messages dumped into a hyperdrone and aimed at the recipient 's projected location . |
| 51 | Phipps 's latest conquest — he rarely went long without excitement — had been the childless and bored Mrs Venables , whose cake was the last he 'd tasted , and whose husband was the local chemist . |
| 52 | In the 1950s he had condemned the French Fourth Republic as a weak regime , vacillating in its policies , too often a victim rather than a shaper of international events . |
| 53 | In the 1950s he had failed to advance far in the party nationally , and had instead made his name as internal affairs minister in the Land of Hamburg after 1961 . |
| 54 | Since the Forties he has led his own big bands , noted for their driving swing on up-tempo numbers like ‘ Flying Home ’ , and for the leader 's exuberant showmanship . |
| 55 | As England 's leading batsman of the 1980s he has borne a heavy responsibility and perhaps because of this has never completely fulfilled his potential ; few batsmen can have been blessed with so much natural ability , yet he often looks vulnerable until he has settled down and even then has succumbed countless times to an infuriating nibble or waft outside the off stump . |
| 56 | Even Clinton 's enemies have to admit that , with the bruising he has taken , he is no quitter . |
| 57 | One instant he had been running flat out , the next he had stopped , whipped round to face them , and dropped into a defensive crouch . |
| 58 | As he waited for a colleague delivering mail to Mr Reenan 's £300,000 Oxfordshire home , Ron said : ‘ One minute he 's talking about going to Diana , the next he 's gone to a newspaper . |
| 59 | Lola kept track of patients whose personalities were as variable as the weather ( ‘ One minute Paul says he does not want his wife any more and the next he has changed his mind ’ ) , she listened to their grievances ( ‘ Josef thinks he is fit to work and look after himself ; says he is being kept a prisoner … but he is very confused and deluded ’ ) and even mediated between doctors ( ‘ Dr Freymann said … it must be a genuine case of epilepsy … but … |
| 60 | This is the most he has conceded in some 250 outings for Bangor , an appearance record that tops any Seasider goalkeeper in the last 30 years . |