Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] he [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the olive-skinned Valentino was seen kidnapping a white girl and taking her to his tent where he seduced her , cinema audiences were treated to a franker exposé of naked lust on the screen than they had ever seen before . |
| 2 | He held a hand to his chest where he carried his brother 's memory . |
| 3 | The stories grew more inflamed with the telling and witnesses were about equally divided as to whether Beatrice encouraged Modi to debauchery or he provoked her . |
| 4 | To read Mrs McDermott 's vivid recollection of those final precious moments when she spoke to her son and tidied his hair before he ran off to play in Ormeau Park where he met his killer would melt the hardest of hearts . |
| 5 | David Riley at the council park where he broke his arm Picture : CLIFF BRETT |
| 6 | Leavis 's reputation as a crabbed stylist and boldly innovative thinker who had been rejected by a university where he spent his entire life was largely a figment of his own mind , and so much of his post-war life was devoted to mythologising his own career that it is difficult , by now , to recognise what a conventional figure in his place and day he always was . |
| 7 | He was educated at Bowmore school and Glasgow University where he obtained his M.A. in 1863 and was made a Doctor of Divinity in 1891 . |
| 8 | Paul claimed he only joined the Normanby Road Methodist Church for the youth club where he began his entertainment career . |
| 9 | At the age of 9 , he was sent to the London Institution where he excelled himself so much that when the school 's Margate branch was opened in 1875 , the headmaster , Dr. Elliott , appointed him one of the first pupil-teachers , promoting him three years later to a junior teachership . |
| 10 | Brucan 's reference to the benefits of abandoning the ‘ idiocy of rural life ’ was the typical presumption of a Marxist intellectual that he knew what was best for the benighted peasant . |
| 11 | Saint Basil was so enchanted by this selfless action that he concluded his comments with the words ‘ If things seen are so lovely , what must things unseen be ? ’ |
| 12 | In a letter addressed ‘ Dear Boris ’ and signed ‘ Yours John ’ Mr Major told the Russian president that he supported his emphasis on ‘ controlling inflation , completing land reform and helping … businesses ’ . |
| 13 | Sartre 's character the Auto-Didact was working his way through an alphabetical subject catalogue , with the result that he knew nothing of subjects beginning with the later letters ; to learn mathematics by the route Algebra , Arithmetic , Calculus , Geometry … and on to Trigonometry would be bizarre by any conventional standard . |
| 14 | Shiona could see from his eyes that he meant it . |
| 15 | Michael could see by the look in his eyes that he knew who had ordered his accident . |
| 16 | Some months after Wilson resigned from being prime minister , he admitted to two journalists that he believed there was a faction in DI5 sympathetic to the South African and Rhodesian authorities . |
| 17 | According to one report , he told a group of journalists that he believed he ought to have been given the interim presidency . |
| 18 | It was a bitter irony that he condemned her for loving a man who was out of reach . |
| 19 | ‘ I wanted him to chase me , not literally , though I would have been madly impressed if he 'd charged up Piccadilly on a white stallion , but I just wanted some firmer confirmation that he loved me . |
| 20 | At the age of 12 , Kitto was taken on by his father to assist him in his trade , and it was shortly afterwards when he was working for his father slating a new roof that he lost his footing in the act of stepping off a ladder and fell thirty-five feet to the ground . |
| 21 | It was only after he took two bullets in the thigh and wrist and a shotgun blast in the back , and his brother was murdered by rival gangs that he channelled his aggression into baseball . |
| 22 | It was n't the nigger 's fault that he had nothing to do for the moment . |
| 23 | There is every indication that he believed it to be true , whether it was or not . |
| 24 | When he did n't move or give any indication that he knew she was there at all — although he must have heard the car draw up and , unless he was deaf , the car door slam — she marched across to him . |
| 25 | After his accession Richard parted with all his East Anglian estates to Howard , an indication that he regarded them as a peripheral part of his power base . |
| 26 | After his accession Richard parted with all his East Anglian estates to Howard , an indication that he regarded them as a peripheral part of his power base . |
| 27 | ( 4 ) Where a lessor is proceeding by action or otherwise to enforce a right of re-entry or forfeiture under any covenant , proviso , or stipulation in a lease , or for non-payment of rent , the court may , on application by any person claiming as an under-lessee any estate or interest in the property comprised in the lease or any part thereof , either in the lessor 's action ( if any ) or in any action brought by such person for that purpose , make an order vesting , for the whole term of the lease or any less term , the property comprised in the lease , or any part thereof in any person entitled as under-lessee to any estate or interest in such property upon such conditions as to execution of any deed or other document , payment of rent , costs , expenses , damages , compensation , giving security , or otherwise , as the court in the circumstances of each case may think fit , but in no case shall any such under-lessee be entitled to require a lease to be granted to him for any longer term than he had his original sub-lease . |
| 28 | But it was in the opera house not the organ loft that he found his true métier . |
| 29 | *John wound up the toy car so he wanted it to go . |
| 30 | Some still persist in their view that Morris burnt his boat when he chose previously to hand over the captaincy , saying in effect that he thought his cricket was suffering because of it . |