Example sentences of "the [noun pl] he [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miguel Rafaelo 's conversation was all about the village surgery , and the clinics he had set up there . |
| 2 | Many are the times he has held up busy working schedules because he has become fascinated by someone he has encountered in a crowd . |
| 3 | No , she thought , putting together some of the pictures he had cut out — a refrigerator , a mowing machine , a gentleman in evening dress — children never forget . |
| 4 | ’ cheery voice and shrill whistle will be sadly missed in Malt Dispatch by all the drivers he has guided back on to the doings ! |
| 5 | When old Aaron Tyson from Limestone Hill sold to the greengrocer 's the turnips he 'd stacked up for his sheep . |
| 6 | Duroc looked over the reports from the engineers he had sent down into the dry sewers . |
| 7 | He could have basked in the illusion of being a benevolent father-figure to his people , actually loved and appreciated and secure in the knowledge that even after he went , things would go on along the tracks he had laid down . |
| 8 | The rent on this new place , like the rent on all the places he 'd lived in since he arrived in the city , was paid for by the Social Security . |
| 9 | He took me round all the places he 'd slept in . |
| 10 | Later , ashamed , Two-Dogs would picket screenings of the films he had appeared in , although he admitted in private that many times as a young man he had eaten well at a movie commissary when he would otherwise have starved . |
| 11 | In the theatre , he argues , there is ( a ) an internal dramatist — who makes up the characters and their actions ; ( b ) an internal actor — who represents to the reader for his benefit the actions he has made up as dramatist ; and , finally , ( c ) an internal audience . |
| 12 | Talbot and Van Gelder looked at each other in silence , then bent forward over Theodore 's shoulders to look at the figures he had added up . |
| 13 | Among the details he had held back during appearances before both the Senate foreign relations committee and the House of Representatives intelligence committee in October 1986 were the fact that he had solicited a $10,000 million contribution from the Sultan of Brunei . |
| 14 | But a wider public , both inside and outside the University , are grateful to him for the windows he has opened up to them , through his recent chairmanship of the Friends of the Welsh National Opera , through his talks and articles , and above all through his learned , wise and witty discourses on Wagner . |
| 15 | ‘ I get on better on my own , ’ he said to his mother , looking over the leaflets he 'd picked up . |
| 16 | He had by now forgotten the faces of many of the girls he had run around with , and Peter Dawson was dead , but there was still Isobel , the one steadying influence in his life . |
| 17 | I had thought at the time , wrote Goldberg , turning the page , wiping his brow , taking a sip of orange juice from the glass on the desk beside him , dreaming for a moment of the cigarettes he had given up two years earlier , I had thought , he wrote , that an edited version of the text , with only those comments directly concerned with the Big Glass included , would serve you best . |
| 18 | She worked with one photographer , some of the shots he had brought back spectacular , and he was waiting for her as she walked into the office . |
| 19 | The hints he had thrown out , that he was connected in some illegitimate way with the Hamilton family , could be dismissed as a typical lie told to impress , another Cape Horn . |
| 20 | It ca n't be any coincidence that the women he has gone out with have been typical English roses with titles , and the Duchess tops the lot . |
| 21 | Shorts and jacket with a badge on the breast and long , grey , wrinkled socks — the clothes he had travelled in . |
| 22 | This suggests that the child does n't ask himself how the letters he has written down might be pronounced . |
| 23 | Derek was a traveller , a ‘ gypsy ’ according to the people in the towns he had passed through . |
| 24 | During the evenings he had walked about for hours , pulled at himself , resisted the prostitutes who abounded between here and Primrose Hill ; and all for this continued denial . |