Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] he [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it was just the times I saw him in the Div II Championship year and the season after that . |
| 2 | BIG Dave Beasant hit back at the Chelsea fans who booed him off the pitch and blasted : ‘ You 're out of order . ’ |
| 3 | The secondary premise of Sean 's Show , as described by producer Katie Lander , is that ‘ he 's being controlled by scriptwriters who treat him as a sitcom character . |
| 4 | Bond is still despised by Burnley supporters who blame him for the club 's demise after his season in charge eight years ago . |
| 5 | One of the best known names in football has been teaching a group of schoolchildren some of the skills which took him to the top of the game . |
| 6 | He had been to Sweden in 1911 and Norway in 1913 , experiences which encouraged him in the use of a looser technique and a thicker impasto . |
| 7 | With cords and pitons they anchored him to the rock . |
| 8 | These words were probably written after the capture and tonsuring of the king in 731 by unnamed opponents who kept him for a while in a monastic centre , somewhere presumably in Northumbria . |
| 9 | He said Alan Winmill is somebody I have known for many years I regard him as a man of intergrity . |
| 10 | For forty days she banishes him to the stables and piggeries . |
| 11 | It was the Lucy Ghosts who supplied him with the cash that helped him build his empire . ’ |
| 12 | His departure was initially greeted with euphoria by sacked workers who saw him as the major stumbling block to a negotiated settlement of the bitter dispute , Britain 's worst industrial confrontation since the 1980s . |
| 13 | Apparently , he had reserved certain rights which entitled him to a supply . |
| 14 | Pearce pauses for reflection when asked to define the qualities which took him to the top with such apparent ease . |
| 15 | Temple could write with perfect confidence in his audience that though he would not ‘ strain the reader 's capacity by asking him to imagine a native Governor of a Colony or Protectorate ’ or even a native Colonial Secretary of Nigeria — a proposal which ‘ does not come within the bounds of practical politics ’ — he counted it an advantage of Indirect Rule that under it ‘ the native can and does fill not only positions of great responsibility but the highest positions , positions which place him on the social scale on an equality with the King 's representative himself ’ . |
| 16 | There was a man who went off to Amsterdam to buy some diamonds , I helped his secretary book his ticket , first class , and his limousine , smooth as clockwork , and as he 's walking along a canal admiring the house fronts someone stabs him in the back , destroys a kidney , gangrene sets in , now he 's dead . |
| 17 | To wit : Syrett , beautiful but doomed , cut his hand on a wine glass at a party and , after ignoring his doctor 's advice to avoid climbing , did irreparable damage to his tendons which started him on a tightening spiral of alcoholism and eventual suicide . |
| 18 | ‘ He was given the title of honorary research assistant but articles began appearing in newspapers which described him as a consultant , ’ says a doctor who knew him . |
| 19 | Encouraged by friends who saw him as a Nonconformist Lord Hugh Cecil ( later Baron Quickswood , q.v . ) , |
| 20 | Fry said his farewells to the players who regarded him as a father figure before heading for home in Bedford a devastated man . |
| 21 | He is blessed , though , with large hands which assisted him with the amount of spin he could impart on a cricket ball . |
| 22 | It became clear to me at Blackpool that there was considerable support for Alec , partly because he made a good speech on foreign policy , partly because he took the chair at my meeting in his capacity as President of the National Union , and partly because of lobbying by back-benchers who saw him as the best compromise candidate . |
| 23 | This was not an opinion , simply the Catholic moral teaching , he said at the funeral of Henry Babbington , shot dead on Wednesday by IRA men who mistook him for a loyalist terrorist . |
| 24 | Walking home from his job one payday , he was set upon by two young men who hit him with a stick , pushed him to the ground and seized his meagre wages . |
| 25 | I grew up among the kind of communists and socialists who guided him into the working-class communities and who staff some of their struggles . |
| 26 | Buck 's other contacts include an ageing hooker whom he mistakes for a society woman ( ‘ I 'm one gorgeous chick , ’ says the ungorgeous non-chicken Sylvia Miles ) ; two weak and whining homosexual pick-ups ; and a couple of weirdos who invite him to an ‘ underground ’ party . |
| 27 | And if he did not give the people , the sherpas who guided him through the terrain of industrial England , their own voice , the journey gave him a voice of his own . |
| 28 | When they were settled down with their drinks she asked him about the learned society . |
| 29 | He was , and clearly remained to the last days of his long life , a fairly severe obsessional-rigid , indecisive , racked with doubts and unable to rid himself of a penchant for rather down-market women which led him into a series of miserable relationships . |
| 30 | He persuaded Reid 's wife , actress Dorothy Davenport , to sign Wally 's commitment papers which put him into a private sanatorium . |