Example sentences of "the [noun sg] he [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Under such circumstances one can predict the final outcome with rather more confidence , for a child in this situation is sustained and encouraged in the response he originally adopted .
2 For some reason the ‘ Poet-Public-Faith ’ article did not get used ; but meanwhile Collingwood , whose acquaintance I had made , had received the advancement he amply deserved , and I wanted to write in The Criterion about his first lecture as Professor .
3 Only through his marriage , which for him was unconsciously rooted in an identification with the bereaved , did he create the conditions where it became more difficult to drive out or cut off from the attachment he both yearned for and feared .
4 He 's just a bit cleverer than the rest , but willing to take advice with it , and is happy being the writer he always wanted to be .
5 Hugh dragged food from his sack , the food the thin man had transferred from his saddle-bags and the remains of the Friar 's provisions ; whatever else lay in the bottom of the sack he carefully left there .
6 He could n't answer yes because it would n't be true — and he did n't feel confident of being able to deceive Iron Josh ; and he could n't answer no because that would reveal him as the beginner he really was .
7 Quite apart from the money he eventually made , he had a new argument to use in the continual discussions among traders about the justice and Koranic authority of the government 's policy toward commerce .
8 Horowitz , tall and thin in the trench coat he still wore , and carrying the case he never let out of his sight , stared at both men .
9 Timid , fastidious and conservative in his dress , he was given to silences of legendary proportions and to a strict working routine more befitting the clerk he never became than the artist he was .
10 Having made the decision he now felt elated again .
11 He saw the old man 's face , the half-smile he still remembered so well .
12 Because not only had all this lot to be moved , but halfway through the removal he suddenly remembered there was something else needed moving , shot to the stairs with a white face , opened the door in under the stairs and out came all the bits and pieces from there .
13 The story he then told is described by Sutcliffe as " paradigmatic Baileyan JC " .
14 In contrast to the parties given in his honour , from which Eliot would contrive to slip away after a token attendance , these functions , never too large , were the kind he most enjoyed .
15 He is shown contrasting an original dipping pen — the kind he once used , with the computer he uses today .
16 She would not lower herself to the level he clearly thought suited her .
17 At the level he now was the breakers looked menacing , as though at any moment they might sweep in to engulf him .
18 But in his relief at having finished the play he scarcely cared about its imperfections .
19 None more so than the play he virtually wrote for Kenneth Williams — Loot .
20 Gray , who will watch today 's game at White Hart Lane , vividly recalls that first clash with the striker he now regards as the most exciting in Britian .
21 But the course he now proposed to take amounted , in effect , to a failure to decide , a refusal to make any of the conventional choices available to him , a creative act of cowardice . .
22 He has returned to Potsdamer Platz — the Piccadilly Circus of old Berlin — meticulously to paint the part of the Wall which replaced the part he previously damaged .
23 Mr Ward was so opposed to the selection that he told the Association he no longer wanted to be a member .
24 As he looked over at the stranger he suddenly became aware of someone else in the room .
25 ‘ Do n't … ’ he began , then bit off the rest , his hand clenching on the fabric he still held .
26 GRIPPING SCENE : Proud pop picks up the tot he once refused to carry
27 Taking a cooking bowl from the side he part filled it from the water jar and set it down on the ring .
28 Dedicated football fan that he is , Anderson attempts to give advice to Crisp and Broadbent in a long and excited utterance , but this is only a part of the whole picture because his enthusiasm for the topic , implicated by the length of the turn , conflicts with the hesitancy he also displays .
29 Even the Nobel prize winner for physiology and medicine , Sir Charles Sherrington , dedicated his prize-winning speech to Alexander 's work , but even to this day Alexander has not really received the recognition he so richly deserves .
30 Into the Blue won the first ever W H Smith thumping good read award , so maybe at last this compelling writer will get the recognition he so deserves .
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