Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony stood up immediately , realising that it would be difficult for his father to sing the Irish songs he sang at parties , usually sad songs of loss and parting . |
| 2 | As for Kristofferson , his voice is barely serviceable , but he is a valuable presence in this quartet of songwriters , not least because the songs he brought to Nashville in the Sixties reconnected country with the street . |
| 3 | He thought always much too easily , in highly unrealistic terms , of the peoples he ruled as a mere aggregate of individuals face to face with an absolute State . |
| 4 | Shrugging the collar higher around tingling ears he thought of Carrie . |
| 5 | It took Ray years to discover the mix of speedwork and mile repetitions he needed for improving his race times . |
| 6 | Among the informants he met in this way was a Lebanese Army officer known as ‘ The Captain' , with close connections to the Jafaar clan . |
| 7 | THE FIRST American anthropologist to enter rural China since the communist revolution has been expelled from Stanford University after writing about the barbaric birth control methods he witnessed in the Pearl River delta of south-east China . |
| 8 | She might despise him for the methods he used in business , but the fact remained that she loved him , and if there was anything she could do to protect him she would do it . |
| 9 | When he graduated Hugo took a succession of low-paid jobs in 7th Avenue and the optimism with which he had set out began to be dimmed by the sheer sick-making banality of what he had to do — cutting samples in the disgusting fabrics with which the greedy cutthroat manufacturers he worked for made their living . |
| 10 | With swift steps he crossed to the glazed door and saw her crouched before a flowerbed , apparently engrossed in the task of tugging weeds from between the flowering rose bushes . |
| 11 | ( Of Pontius Pilate : ‘ The steps he took to still a particular local clamour were more or less what the service required , and he washed his hands with a civilised regret . ’ ) |
| 12 | Unlike his older brothers he went to a Franco — Annamite school and obtained a certificate in 1907 . |
| 13 | But the new-look candidates he pointed to are virtual unknowns . |
| 14 | Van Cheele usually talked to his aunt about the birds , plants and animals he saw on his walks . |
| 15 | The restricted range of animals he saw at the College , and the limited nature of their diseases , inevitably meant that his experience was narrowly based . |
| 16 | With unseeing eyes he gazed at usual offices , charming patios , ‘ Ideal ’ boilers , and mature fruit-trees . |
| 17 | With wide , blank eyes he shuffled towards them . |
| 18 | … stout Cortez , when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Looked at each other with wild surmise — Silent , upon a peak in Darién . |
| 19 | Indeed , Sombro was not long back from the town when he arrived at North Point and he appeared tired and wan as he looked up with those big eyes he inherited from the Labrador side of his lineage . |
| 20 | Before her astonished eyes he turned on his heel and walked from the discotheque floor , leaving her alone in the midst of the dancers . |
| 21 | His extraordinary eyes he veiled with lowered lids and humility , and only the satirical curve of his long lips , accentuated by those twin russet flames that forked upwards through his short black beard , caused the chamberlain who admitted him to look at him a second time . |
| 22 | The wig he finally chose needed modification by a barber ; but he got it done , put on a pair of folding spectacles he carried in his briefcase , and had the satisfaction of astonishing his colleagues when he walked back into the hotel . |
| 23 | It was an entry to international football as perfectly timed as any of the crisp , balanced tackles he made in the course of his remarkable playing career . |
| 24 | Ironically , while Jack was with the latter , he had a fabulous season as a goalscoring wing-half and it was two goals he scored against the Palace in early April 1952 which equalled the former record of 14 goals by a half-back established by Arthur Grimsdell . |
| 25 | The high point has to be the three goals he scored against Derrygonnelly in the semi-final , making him a marked man today . |
| 26 | These crises he showed to be caused by a general lack of planning ( ‘ anarchy ’ ) of the capitalist methods of production , by the impossibility of attaining correct proportions between the various elements of the process of reproduction under capitalism , especially between production and consumption . |
| 27 | These crises he showed to be caused by a general lack of planning ( anarchy ) of the capitalist methods of production , by the impossibility of attaining correct proportions between elements of the process of reproduction under capitalism , especially between production and consumption … he showed the cause to be the incapability of capitalism to maintain an equilibrium among the various elements of production . |
| 28 | The crises he discerned in the mid-1960s are still powerfully visible in the early 1990s . |
| 29 | NIKI LAUDA HAS named the latest LaudaAir aircraft after the man whose cars he drove to two world championship titles in 1975 and 1977 . |
| 30 | I tried to get a lift from every vehicle that passed , but Oliver only stuck out his thumb at cars he really wanted to ride in , and sometimes even scowled at drivers whose cars he disapproved of . |