Example sentences of "the [noun] he [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then finally , Paul Reichmann saw the opportunity he had been waiting for in London , a city he fondly recalled from the days when he studied there as a young man . |
| 2 | ‘ Go on then , ’ he would say , coaxingly , and off Jasper would go in the direction he knew was right . |
| 3 | The change he makes is to assume that the laws of motion obeyed by the particles constituting an isolated system are non-invertible : that is , that the same dynamical state at a given time can be reached from two or more different dynamical states at some earlier time . |
| 4 | The support he needed was n't somebody standing next to him . ’ |
| 5 | He denied any guns had been involved in the raid although Mr Beaton had said earlier in the trial he had been told he would be shot if he tried anything stupid . |
| 6 | Twenty five years on Cohan may not be , as he readily admits , at the cutting edge of contemporary dance , yet the technique he advocates is a world apart from the rigorous classicism the Scottish Ballet has sought to reinforce through its association with Oleg Vinogradov , director of the Kirov Ballet , and the appointment of Soviet-trained ballerina Galina Samsova as artistic director . |
| 7 | Now he would have to return the money he had been given to put names forward for the vacancies . |
| 8 | The lawyer had always maintained that the money he received was a legitimate success fee for the vital role he played in the bitterly fought takeover battle . |
| 9 | A commercial bank had turned down his application for a loan because he could not provide collateral and besides , the money he needed was ‘ too small ’ . |
| 10 | Now he wants a bigger say in how the money he gives is spent . |
| 11 | Certainly , the United States administration had vastly over-reacted to Nkrumah 's book Neo-Colonialism : The last stage of imperialism ( 1965 ) , though the views he advanced were becoming the commonplace of Third World writing . |
| 12 | He was awarded the £40 he had been ordered to pay in excess fares plus interest plus costs . |
| 13 | Poor old Ken Brown , frustrated beyond his tolerance level , slid from the pedestal he had been erecting for himself following early and rebellious years , when , during the Murphy Cup at St. Pierre , his driver and a wooden tee box converged at not inconsiderable speed . |
| 14 | But Pete said that it was n't , because for much of the hour he 'd been doing the same . |
| 15 | The decision he reached was that existing computer hardware was not sufficiently powerful to cope with the problem . |
| 16 | He was still wrapped in the cloak he had been wearing when , as a Priest of the Roman Catholic Church , he had gone into the front lines with his men , completely unarmed . |
| 17 | He let the foot he 'd been massaging fall to the floor with a thud , and she winced . |
| 18 | He flipped back through the book looking at his entries , neat , and pages of notes about the pheasants and the weather and the times he 'd been up there . |
| 19 | In spite of all the times he had been there Adam missed the turn-off that was the drift leading down to Wyvis Hall . |
| 20 | The worry he had been feeling about Janine was replaced by elation . |
| 21 | He 's claimed that the drug he took was only for his asthma , and was NOT on the list of banned substances . |
| 22 | It is one of the reasons he has been delaying us these three days , I think , ’ Guillamon put in . |
| 23 | By the time of his first visit in 1779 , there had been a county gaol in the town for over two centuries but although the building he visited was only thirty-three years old he was very critical of the facilities it provided . |
| 24 | And he started up in the spring and the bucket he 'd been carrying had left a ridge in his hand . |
| 25 | The story he told was precisely the story that Lanfranc had told in 1072 , with the single exception that he says nothing about the ultimum quasi robur of the whole case in the series of documents mentioned by Lanfranc . |
| 26 | The story he related was long and imaginative . |
| 27 | Then she convinced him he was to say no more about leaving and get back to the story he had been working on when the row blew up . |
| 28 | The RoboCop is basically a ‘ man in a suit ’ ; but in the story he has been so reconstituted that even his skin , seen only at his face and not much there until he takes off his helmet , is supposed to be toughened like plastic . |
| 29 | The last time Willie had had so many children at the cottage he had been sick . |
| 30 | The trophies he won were : Seligman Cup , Roger Hawes Cup , Gerald Needham Cup , John Popplewell Cup , Ellis Cup , Reg Walker Shield and Bob Nunn Cup . |