Example sentences of "the [det] [noun] [subord] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | That morning Wycliffe had heard of the Glynn family for the first time and in the few hours since he had learned something about them ; about Gerald , Gina and Barry , about Christine and Aunt Sara , and about the uncles , Alfred and Maurice . |
| 2 | Could it be that ? she wondered , in the few seconds before he spoke . |
| 3 | A person commits the latter offence if he ‘ by any false pretence … with intent to defraud , obtains from any other person any chattel , money , or valuable security , or causes or procures any money to be paid , or any chattel or valuable security to be delivered to himself or to any other person for the use or benefit or on account of himself or any other person . ’ |
| 4 | If we are intended for great ends , we are called to great hazards ; and , whereas we are given absolute certainty in nothing , we must in all things choose between doubt and inactivity , and the conviction that we are under the eye of One who , for whatever reason , exercises us with the less evidence when He might give us the greater . |
| 5 | ( ii ) If the wife becomes entitled to the whole house and requests that the matrimonial home be conveyed or transferred to herself and her " new husband " ( to whom she is not married ) , is the wife making a gift for inheritance tax purposes to the " new husband " ? ( iii ) The Inland Revenue capital gains tax concession mentioned in Chapter 2 may not be available ( on a strict interpretation of its wording ) to the former husband if he conveys or transfers his interest in his former principal private residence to someone other than his spouse or ex-spouse. ( iv ) A conveyance to someone other than a party to the marriage will not attract the stamp duty relief of s83 of the Finance Act 1985 , ( see p22 ) but if it is a voluntary disposition , exemption L of The Stamp Duty ( Exempt Instruments ) Regulations 1987 ( SI No 516 ) ( Chapter 2 ) will apply . |
| 6 | Ashton 's choreography follows the style used by the Moscow Arts Theatre production of the play — he is danced in the ballet in the same way as he is acted in Russia . |
| 7 | He slipped into the obscurity of retirement , after more than thirty years in the Corporation , in much the same way as he had operated during his entire working life : unobtrusively . |
| 8 | She will learn to preach and do the liturgy in the same way as he . |
| 9 | With the advent of Enterprise Training , providing a range of skills , including financial management , staff management , technical management , as well as craft skills , training entered a wider framework and came closer still to the Advisory Services , and the farmer would , in time , come to look on the service of the Agricultural Training Board in the same way as he currently looked on the service of his bank or advisory service . |
| 10 | Gedge 's approach to stagecraft was largely to ignore all the rules and act almost the same way as he did off stage . |
| 11 | He is to take over not only the redevelopment of derelict inner-city sites , a major initiative in itself , but also the overlordship of the ten ( soon to be 12 ) Urban Development Corporations , as well as acting as an English development agency , attracting foreign companies to English towns and cities in the same way as he did for Wales . |
| 12 | As he watched he saw , high above his own aircraft , a small pinpoint of red fire moving through the band of stars , heading the same way as he . |
| 13 | She heard the sound of the sea , the cry of the gulls and then her own cry , as he made love to her in the same way as he had done long ago at the Angel Inn . |
| 14 | ‘ Eight days ago , ’ repeated the Substitute in the same way as he had repeated ‘ On Monday ’ . |
| 15 | Merton itself , as a result of Silverman 's experience in selection , advertising and research , was first conceived as a high-level recruitment consultancy which then evolved into a management consultancy and executive search practice ; he based his approach — ahead of its time in Britain in the mid-1970s — on the concept of building up a profile of ‘ the ideal candidate ’ by using the most sophisticated industrial market research techniques , approaching a recruitment programme in the same way as he had devised and implemented a marketing plan . |
| 16 | The Emperor had no particular difficulty putting a stop to this , though the Company was able to re-establish its position by blockading shipping in the Bay of Bengal and the Emperor forgave the Company in much the same way as he would have forgiven any of his nobles who tried to rebel but who was so powerful that it was neither convenient nor practicable to destroy him . |
| 17 | The ProfitBoss treats union representatives in the same way as he treats any other person " with respect and with dignity . |
| 18 | Because I think that there should be no reason why the Q S should n't provide you with that service in the same way as he provides anybody else Jim . |
| 19 | Here and there in that hard , shining city there are individuals who think the same way as he does . |
| 20 | He took it out on Scarlet in the same way as he avenged himself on her for the pressures at work and the demands of his first wife . |
| 21 | She affected Luke in the same way as he did her . |
| 22 | He squeezes my hand tightly , much the same way as he might wring my heart . |
| 23 | The hon. Member for Stamford and Spalding ( Mr. Davies ) seems to want to treat the work force of the United Kingdom in the same way as he treats his sheep . |
| 24 | ‘ He treated her , ’ added Michael Margolis , ‘ in exactly the same way as he treated Phil Silvers . |
| 25 | He addressed her in the same way as he had her mistress , with the deference due to age . |
| 26 | Mr you see various people are giving evidence , and Mr wants to ask the right person , certain questions , namely the person who er devised those words and er you are er somebody in a very important position er and er he 's trying to get it from you , and as he 's pointed out to you a company ca n't sit down and produce in some corporate way a phrase someone or two human beings or more have got to do it and he wants to know if you can help us er who , who that was , that 's , that 's all you see , he does n't want to ask you about it , no doubt er , er in the same way as he 'd want to ask a person that actually devised a word , d' ya see ? |
| 27 | Yet his curriculum vitae would be very much stronger if there were not that one-metre gap between the rival lines to stop him from imposing his physical presence on his opposite number in quite the same way as he did to such crucial effect upon Steve Cuttler in the 1989 series in Australia . |
| 28 | According to Le Matin , Joffre ( responding in much the same way as he had to General de Langle earlier ) , said ‘ let him do what he wants ’ and then went back to sleep . |
| 29 | Mind you , if you were going the same way as he wanted go , and he was going the way you wanted to go |
| 30 | A representation of the Three Living and the Three Dead in both volumes is strikingly similar , and it is known that Amadeus , count of Savoy , bought two panels depicting the same subject when he was in England in 1302–3 . |