Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he emptied his bladder he stared at his face in the shaving mirror . |
| 2 | As long as history is assumed to operate according to the protocols of a conventional logic , where a contradiction simply means you can not think it or do it as Hirst supposes , then it remains at the impasse he describes . |
| 3 | from which impasse he came . |
| 4 | He pleaded for mufakat , an Islamic term for the gotong-royong he had long advocated : consensus , harmony , unity . |
| 5 | His re-election to Parliament came in 1679 in Rochester , for which borough he sat until 1690 ; thereafter , until 1694 , he represented Queenborough and finally Maidstone again in 1695–8 . |
| 6 | A son of Green Desert , Magic Ring is out of an Empery mare and there are indications that he will stay a mile despite the amazing speed he displayed as a juvenile . |
| 7 | She looked up at him and he acknowledged her presence by a brief glance , but without slackening speed he rode past her , towards the wood . |
| 8 | That 's good though that is. was running along a track at a constant speed he passed the hundred and fifty metre mark . |
| 9 | He steered the ten-year-old Daimler under the Dersingham arch and drove straight into the cathedral close at the same speed he 'd used to cover the miles from Oldfield . |
| 10 | ‘ Watch me , ’ said Amiss , as at high speed he put on the clothes Pooley had just brought him . |
| 11 | Afterwards , he would sit down , realize the risks he had taken and start to worry about what he had done ! |
| 12 | But taking no risks he rose again into the night . |
| 13 | He must know not only about the risks he wishes to avoid , or to take , and the price at which he is prepared to transact , but also more about the characteristics of the underlying instrument such as its volatility and the degree to which its price is correlated with the risky prospect against which he seeks a hedge ( or upon which he plans to speculate ) . |
| 14 | With the aid of a scholarship he studied at the University of Aberdeen , where he graduated MA before he was twenty years old . |
| 15 | For those whose scholarship he respected he was prepared to go to endless trouble , but to those whom he suspected of pretensions exceeding their knowledge or understanding he gave short shrift . |
| 16 | Maggie looked on this isolation he had built up around them as distinction and strength . |
| 17 | Abandoning the isolation he had sought so avidly in September , he went back so as to be at home for Christmas , always a precarious time for him . |
| 18 | The poor little rich boy was looked after by a second mother in the person of strict Ilse , from Germany : this did a great deal , but not enough , to relieve the isolation he felt — which , as his researches disclosed , was to be a factor in the isolation and rejection suffered in turn by his younger brother , who also left for the Mediterranean . |
| 19 | The isolation he keeps me in . |
| 20 | His despondent letter to Thelwall was written immediately following an absence of ‘ a day or two ’ , during which , it seems likely , he walked westward into the Exmoor fringes above Porlock , the home territory of his maternal ancestors , and in a lonely farmhouse near Culbone Church sought the isolation he needed to complete Osorio . |
| 21 | In the garbage he belongs ! ’ |
| 22 | Whereas in his earlier four- and five-part motets Andrea had generally maintained a conservative style , the Penitential Psalms show his skill in what one may call choral orchestration , and in the Concerti he developed polychoral writing far beyond the simple antiphony of the salmi spezzati of Ruffino and Willaert . |
| 23 | This view is developed in a way which partly reduplicates the misleading tactics he identifies at work in the 1950s . |
| 24 | Souness , diverting publicity away from his side 's inept display , insisted he would quit football if more clubs adopted the tactics he claimed Palace used in Tuesday 's clash at Anfield , which finished 1-1 . |
| 25 | Sugar , holding a news conference at his lawyers ' offices after the judgment in his favour , ruled out the chance of any compromise deal with Venables , saying : ‘ I feel deeply aggrieved by the tactics he has adopted . |
| 26 | Unfortunately Freud 's evidence for his propositions was somewhat indirect , being derived from the ‘ memories ’ of adult patients , whose difficulties and characteristics he believed could best be accounted for by the libidinal theory . |
| 27 | To anyone familiar with the writings of authors such as Gummer , who are critical of the changes that have taken place in post-war Britain , the characteristics he highlights will be similarly familiar . |
| 28 | Johnson flits over it all in a sentence , and in his letters to Mrs Thrale he came forth only a little more , alluding only to the success of the visit , and to the debate as to whether the savage or the shopkeeper had the best life . |
| 29 | To Mrs Thrale he wrote , ‘ No part that I have seen is plain ; you are always climbing or descending , and every step is upon rock or mire . |
| 30 | Johnson found the whole island harsh and barren ; to Mrs Thrale he wrote , ‘ though I have been twelve days upon it , I have little to say . ’ |