Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereafter the sees were filled ; Sidonius himself returned to Clermont , where the chief opposition to him came from his own clergy . |
| 2 | However he remains unseen because Sauron can not pierce the shadows he made for his own defence . |
| 3 | He lived in his own mind , he really did . |
| 4 | Her judgement of Alan Jones was both admiring and shrewd , and he asked about her own education , becoming aware that at least four other men were listening with great interest and that Catherine Crane was so used to this that she was unconscious of it . |
| 5 | Nigel was sufficiently worried about my feeble attempts towards the top of the ascent that he got below me each time I had to turn and pushed me forward into the slope . |
| 6 | In it the pope said nothing about homage , and argued temperately against lay investitures , minimizing their importance , and denying that he sought for himself any increase of authority or any diminution of the king 's due power . |
| 7 | He was therefore scowling as he bumped into his own wife , who was coming out of the Russell Inn just as he was entering . |
| 8 | The first house he built for his own occupation was a stopgap , put up to live in until something more suitable was acquired . |
| 9 | Quickly he moved into his own room , grabbed his pyjama top and returned . |
| 10 | He demanded the removal of the permanent secretary to the Treasury , Sir Robert ( later Baron ) Chalmers [ q.v. ] , and he countermanded on his own authority a Treasury request for the transfer of gold from Canada . |
| 11 | Nigel always worked best when he drew on his own life . |
| 12 | ‘ He proposed to me that afternoon , ’ put in Angelina apologetically . |
| 13 | He mentioned to me several cases that were outstanding and told me that he and other contractors are stopping doing work involving a Housing Executive grant because they have to wait anything up to three months to wait for payment after the work has been done . |
| 14 | He told of his own difficulties in finding time to read all the variable essays submitted and knew of many that were never sent in at all . |
| 15 | Communication was the basis of his work ; he invited contributions from those with particular expertise and these he collated with his own experience in the most comprehensive form to present a reliable work of reference . |
| 16 | Felipe blamed himself for Ana 's blindness and he suffered in his own cold , imperious way . |
| 17 | Though he had lived for weeks for this hour he now felt a wild surge of resentment towards McQuaid as he came into his own house . |
| 18 | " He came of his own accord . " |
| 19 | Anyway when the time came to , to , to stop off for short time everybody had had their turn except the union president and myself and he came to me this foreman and he said er , now John I do n't want you to think what happened between me and you will make any difference about being sent back for . |
| 20 | The Order , when he came across its several agents down by the waterside , was civil for no doubt the same reasons . |
| 21 | He studied in his own land " under the ulema of his time " and is said to have studied under Seyyid Serif ( d. 816/1413–14 ) . |
| 22 | He turned on his own torch and started wondering how he was going to get out . |
| 23 | Although he turned to his own men for a number of controversial assignments , he was able to use his brother 's servants for hardly less sensitive duties . |
| 24 | Although he turned to his own men for a number of controversial assignments , he was able to use his brother 's servants for hardly less sensitive duties . |
| 25 | Phrase by phrase , syllable by syllable , a bewitchment seemed to be building up round Adam ; Ruth almost thought he shone with his own light now , like a flame . |
| 26 | Then he withdrew to his own rooms to let them get on with it . |
| 27 | It is not necessary to suppose that he acted on his own initiative , although this is implied in the Anonimalle Chronicle ( 11 , pp.158–9 ) : possibly his advisers felt that he might be less at risk than they themselves , and that in the circumstances a policy of temporary conciliation was the best course of action . |
| 28 | ‘ Water ! ’ he begged in his own tongue , but she did n't seem to understand . |
| 29 | His failure to gain much of Bavaria in 1778–79 , to exchange the whole electorate for the Austrian Netherlands some years later ( see pp. 303–5 below ) , or to achieve real military success against the Turks in the war of 1788–90 , undoubtedly did a good deal to increase the difficulties he faced within his own dominions . |
| 30 | But as he climbed into his own bed in his little two roomed flat half a mile from the police station his mind was occupied still with the case . |