Example sentences of "he of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British playwright John Arden ( he of Sergeant Musgrave 's Dance ) accepted the Obie on Henry Livings 's behalf , though , commented Livings , ‘ In his mild way John hinted I might well not have enjoyed the way it was done in New York , but I never argue with box-office returns . ’ |
| 2 | He of Peter 's Pets in the high street . ’ |
| 3 | He of friends , and I thought well , when we 're going into this , you know , he 's obviously coming in as a colleague , because actually he was a member of the same damn union . |
| 4 | Then , of course , there was Edmund Halley , he of comet fame — he was equally certain that the flooding had been caused by a passing comet . |
| 5 | The great Fred Botterill — he of Botterill 's Slab — gave up serious climbing when his leader fell from Eagle 's Nest Direct and was killed . |
| 6 | Hitler 's threats against the Jews , whose hand he of course saw behind the British and American ‘ war-mongerers ’ , were an attempt to retaliate at what he regarded as Jewish-provoked anti-German public opinion and , by depicting Jews in the position of hostages as the certain victims in any new war , to exert pressure on Britain and the USA to leave Germany a free hand in Europe . |
| 7 | He of course found out what was happening and the airport was deserted except for the CARABINIERI , the particular type of police for such jobs . |
| 8 | Talking of Lester Piggott he of course was the winner of the first ever Channel Four personality of the year trophy which we awarded for the first time last year . |
| 9 | As the law stands , he of course has no separate claim , following the abolition of claims for loss of services by s2 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 . |
| 10 | He of course is |
| 11 | Now if the matter arises on taxation in this way , it seems that a loan , the trial judgment was given on the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one , a minute of order was prepared and signed by counsel for both the plaintiff and for the defendants and that was forwarded by the defendant 's solicitors to the plaintiff 's solicitors under cover of a letter dated the twenty third of April nineteen ninety one , er Mr who is the defendant 's solicitor in the third paragraph , had a letter wrote as follows I enclose a copy of the draft minute board , approved by Mr , he of course was counsel for the defendant , you are now , you , you were presumably now attend a sealed order . |
| 12 | He of course was the man of the match on th Saturday , he sat here for the interview clutching the bottle of champagne that the club patrons had awarded to him for his performance . |
| 13 | He found Merlyn Rock where , in the summer of 1595 , the Spaniards landed and burned the village along with Newlyn and Penzance ; then in the gathering dusk he made his way up the hill out of the village to Paul and the church of St Pol de Leon ( not he of Tarsus but a Celtic gentleman ) , also burned by the Spaniards and rebuilt afterwards . |
| 14 | ‘ He of Polgar 's Porcine Circus ? ’ |
| 15 | RICHARD NEVILLE — he of Oz fame — one spent a crazy summer with the actor and comedian Robin Williams . |
| 16 | The seven canvases were bought in Paris from Quintin Craufurd by the Seventh Earl of Elgin ( he of Elgin marbles fame ) between 1803 and 1806 , following his detention in France when returning from Constantinople . |
| 17 | ‘ I am not he of Tellenor , ’ said my dad , who was always good at bluffing . |