Example sentences of "the [noun pl] he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Temperamental , moody , and irascible , he appeared to many of his critics to be culpably inconsistent in the attitudes he took to some of the contentious issues of his day . |
| 2 | How could the child he loved most have failed to inherit either his instincts or the opinions he had with such difficulty acquired ? |
| 3 | But there is some instability in the accounts he gives of dark professions of faith , in his acerbities and fatalities . |
| 4 | For John Ross Scott ( above ) , whose friends call him JR , there will be a welcome return to the suits he mothballed in his Hawick wardrobe in a one-man attempt to boost the jersey trade . |
| 5 | PP : of course , Ben always challenged the artists he wrote for , extended them and offered new insights into the capabilities of their own voices or instruments . |
| 6 | Instead of flying the hedges he went for gateways or gaps and Artemis , seeing what he was doing , managed to steer her bolting pony on the same course . |
| 7 | ’ The blots he screwed into my head . |
| 8 | The views he expressed in The Middle Way , published in 1938 , pointing towards a managed economy and the expansion of welfare services to achieve a national minimum , came close to expressing the essential ingredients of what both PEP and the Next Five Years Group wanted in the way of a change of direction by the National Government . |
| 9 | Lynch in fact , directed only the pilot and one of the subsequent eight one-hour episodes , turning the scripts he co-wrote with former Hill Street Blues man Mark Frost over to guest directors including Tim Hunter ( River 's Edge ) and Caleb Deschanel ( Crusoe ) . |
| 10 | Ron lived to see the latter ambition fulfilled from the foundations he laid as Chairman of the racing section of the British Canoe Union and Olympic Team Manager . |
| 11 | Oh , you do n't know anything about the plans he had for his dear daughter , and you stand there and talk of her marrying a man from the lowest scum family in Newcastle . |
| 12 | Dr. Clarke had himself been a surveyor in the town in 1765 : he also cultivated the art of perspective drawing , examples of which can be seen in the plans he drew for Whitaker 's History of Manchester of 1765 and 1771 . |
| 13 | After writing for The Observer and The Times he returned to The Guardian as cricket and , subsequently , wine correspondent in the late 1960s . |
| 14 | THE Daily Post 's chief photographer Stephen Shakeshaft remembered Les Dawson with affection during the times he worked with him . |
| 15 | The cases he relied on were mainly about references involving " umpires " being valuations and not arbitrations . |
| 16 | In some of the cases he deals with these interests supplement one another ; but they nevertheless remain distinct . |
| 17 | Unlike Blanche , he enjoyed the cases he worked on being in the public eye . |
| 18 | We can see no merit in repeating here the reasons he gave for that decision since he pronounced his findings in that case in public , pursuant to rule 11(2) of the Hearings before the Visitors Rules 1991 , and the reasons were complex . |
| 19 | Hecht studied the dying craft with old-fashioned reproductive engravers , but transformed the skills he acquired into a highly personal means of conveying the expressive character of line . |
| 20 | Like Mr Kinnock , he has travelled from Land 's End to John O'Groats since 1983 in terms of the policies he believes in , but the impression that abides after his speeches is that he stays loyal to ancient socialism in a way that his more revisionist colleagues have abandoned . |
| 21 | He has also welcomed Mr Major 's decision to ditch many of the policies he inherited from Lady Thatcher . |
| 22 | He told the Upchers he wanted to ‘ unite comfort and convenience with elegance but without extravagance ’ . |
| 23 | Nurse Jones was a busy woman and he valued the minutes he had with her over a cup of tea when she came down from the bedroom . |
| 24 | King Æthelstan , whose lordship over various Welsh princes is implied by their witnessing of his charters , also invaded Scotland in 934 , and the Scots were among the enemies he defeated at Brunanburh three years later . |
| 25 | Years later he will show me the sketches he made with mud and chalk in the trenches , of fragile running men and tangled machines , lit up by exploding shells like arrested frames of film . |
| 26 | Mr Major believes the concessions he won for Denmark 's Premier Poul Schluter can deliver a yes vote . |
| 27 | He has natural speech/language experience to link all the signals he receives in his aural memory . |
| 28 | Each subscriber in a star system selects the signals he wants by keying instructions into a control pad . |
| 29 | The crises he discerned in the mid-1960s are still powerfully visible in the early 1990s . |
| 30 | ( 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 . ’ ) |