Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the informants he met in this way was a Lebanese Army officer known as ‘ The Captain' , with close connections to the Jafaar clan . |
| 2 | The white football he regarded as another non-starter . |
| 3 | But his philosophy that when your ‘ time 's up your time 's up ’ saw him through and he 's back to tell the tale , though sadly he chose not to include the pictures he took at that time . |
| 4 | Thirty years afterwards Charles still felt deeply the humiliation he suffered at this time ; but unlike some little princes in similar situations , he lived , politically as well as literally , to fight another day . |
| 5 | Imagine how much time and effort would be required if each speaker had to establish the denotation of each term he produced on each occasion of use . |
| 6 | Of the speeches he made on these occasions we have such various descriptions it is impossible to be sure what he actually said . |
| 7 | At intervals throughout the next months he worked on this material , in preparation for his show at the Lefevre Gallery in September 1951 and for other exhibitions . |
| 8 | In all this writing the emphasis was usually very heavily , as in the past , on the obligation of the diplomat to defend jealously the honour of the sovereign he represented against any claim , any change in ceremonial , which might be construed as the slightest threat to it . |
| 9 | This mixed condition he shares with many others , not all of them writers ; it is a condition we are entitled to call traditional . |
| 10 | Poverty , however , forced him to abandon teaching and become a kasabat kadi , in which capacity he served in several towns . |
| 11 | Sara would always remember gratefully the help he gave at that time ‘ to render a miserable cottage , an abode of comparative comfort ’ . |
| 12 | Osburn 's points were that his fellow Englishmen in India , whose heartless behaviour towards Indians he described in some detail , failed to ‘ realize that the British Empire depends for its existence on obtaining the consent and the friendly co-operation of the races governed ’ , and that the demand for independence ‘ need never have arisen but for the arrogance and want of tact of a large percentage of Englishmen who , in one capacity or another , are resident in India ’ . |
| 13 | To which he uttered the classic comment , in the more than usually low drawl he employed for such deliverances : ‘ There 's always bound … to be a certain amount of iniquity … in these matters ’ . |
| 14 | Last month PHILIP VANN looked at artists who had come up from the mines to become artists ; in this issue he concentrates on those artists who went down to the pit to paint |
| 15 | precisely Mr Chairman if I could answer that the , the , the once the inspector comes back to the Fire Service and reports again and he is due back in June , we will then look at the matters he raises at that time and he will look at the progress report er what , what has happened since his last inspection and then we will have the opportunity to look at what the Inspector has , has to say after his visits , not very far away er , their Chief Officer will go on with this programme |
| 16 | What is most remarkable about the talks and lectures he gave on this trip is the extent to which America now revived in him the memories of his childhood . |
| 17 | We all reckon that being as the prize for lowest weight was a year on the Cambridge Diet he fished without any bait at all on the hook . |
| 18 | The difference between Anderson 's words and deeds here is a telling example of the emptiness of many pompous statements he makes in this scene . |
| 19 | A strain of independent socialist thinking runs through his courses , pamphlets , and articles for Plebs , the NCL journal he edited for many years . |
| 20 | Among places he surveyed at this time were the park of Auckland Castle and Lanchester Common . |
| 21 | Douglas Young reports from the Berlin Film Festival on several exciting discoveries he made among this year 's entries ( and some he wishes he had n't ) |
| 22 | But it was Emlyn Williams he conquered at that stage and Emlyn Williams mattered . |
| 23 | And a true gentleman he remains to this day : ever sunny , ever a pleasure to be with . |
| 24 | He died the day he went to that football match . |
| 25 | The nickname he acquired at this stage — Tiger Tim — was less to do with his crusading journalistic style than his relentless pursuit of late contributors to the magazine . |
| 26 | When Congress assembled the Speaker of the House of Representatives asked Hall to give the opening prayer and on a Sunday he preached before both Houses in the Capitol building . |
| 27 | Schrader refers to the short , written out cadenza-like flourish just before the final cadences of the Prelude in F minor BWV534 as a precedent , but this does not seem justification enough , particularly as the cadenza he provides in this case is much more than merely a brief manual flourish . |
| 28 | Fif always seems a little surly with me , because he blames me for some trouble he had on another world . |
| 29 | A little after 3 o'clock this morning he rapped at several doors in Marlborough Street ( adjoining one of the piers ) and informed them that fire had been set to one of the ships in the harbour [ and ] matches were laid in several others ; the whole world would soon be in a blaze , and the town also destroyed … |
| 30 | His business today includes course architecture and not , it seems , teaching the game he played with such flair . |