Example sentences of "of [noun pl] [conj] he [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this time , Miller told Blair that he had been working with Nathanael St André , ‘ the famous anatomist ’ , examining structures of plants and he believed that together they would make some curious discoveries . |
| 2 | Looking at the age of the sexual revolution he isolates a set of changes that he views as having been particularly significant in shaping the period . |
| 3 | Mr. Justice Henry is no respecter of persons , and I hope that the hon. Gentleman has not become such a respecter of persons that he supposes that those two people were dealt with out of any consideration for who or what they were . |
| 4 | The prelude to this was set by another psychoanalyst called Otto Rank one of Freud 's er early followers who had published a book called the Myth of the Birth of the Hero and in this book what Rank did was to trawl through world folklore and literature , from myths of heroes , and of course there are a lot of those books , and dozens and dozens of them and what he does in the book is he distils all these dozens and dozens of myths and he finds that there 's a common pattern emerges and it 's , it 's pretty stereotypical actually and the common pattern is the hero is born of royal or divine parents , the hero for some reason or other that loses his parents or is cast out by them or is er exposed in some way , erm the hero is often threatened by some outside force and then rescued by er humble people . |
| 5 | He hated pomp and humbug , and he resigned from the National Academy of Sciences because he found that they spent most of their time deciding which other scientists should be admitted to the Academy . |
| 6 | I share my hon. Friend 's belief that the answer lies in the sort of suggestions that he made and which have been revealed in the report of the three wise men . |
| 7 | He knew so little of women that he felt as though he had woken up to find himself halfway across a vast mountain in a blizzard without map or rope or compass . |