Example sentences of "of the [noun pl] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the House of Commons he could at least rely upon one of the whips to put him in a cab , and pay the driver . |
| 2 | Various dangers , such as snakes and scorpions , threatened him , but with the magic of the gods to cure him from a poisoned bite and with marsh dwellers helping to watch over him , Horus grew to manhood and set out to do battle for his rightful inheritance with his uncle , Seth . |
| 3 | One of the stewards saw him a-doin' this and he say : |
| 4 | The impact of the rounds knocked him over on top of Kaptan . |
| 5 | And none of the giants want him . ’ |
| 6 | One of the problems facing him was that one can not simply set up any experiment in a public building ; health and safety regulations have to be obeyed . |
| 7 | Hodge was frequently criticised by contemporaries for his inability to grasp the finer points of the problems confronting him and for reacting in too blunt a manner . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm a Time Lord , remember ? ’ he whispered back , keen to make sure none of the others overheard him . |
| 9 | Except in the rare case when the board itself think it desirable , as a matter of fairness , to ask one of the members to interview him . |
| 10 | A few of the ducks notice him . |
| 11 | ‘ The cry of Versailles and the clamour of Paris became as loud in favour of Monsieur Jones as of Monsieur Franklin , ’ wrote Franklin himself , ‘ and the inclination of the ladies to embrace him almost as fashionable and as strong . ’ |
| 12 | If one quarter , in value , of the creditors request him to convene a meeting to appoint a new trustee , he must do so ( s 300(3) ) . |
| 13 | Most of the youngsters know him by name and he is often called to Hendon police station when they get into trouble with the law . |
| 14 | His insistence as a public examiner that men who aspired to become Bachelors or Doctors of Divinity should show knowledge of the Scriptures rather than of the commentators made him unpopular with the Friars . |
| 15 | FOURTEEN-year-old Manoel Jorge Santos had no idea of the perils awaiting him in Sao Paulo when he fled from a broken home and brawling stepfather , trudging 50 miles to the city 's cathedral square in search of a new life . |
| 16 | One of the youths slashed him across the nose and he needed eight stitches in the wound . |
| 17 | The Sporting Life 's run-down of the runners described him as ‘ this no-hoper ’ . |
| 18 | The golden touch : Australian lock John Eales — whose domination of the line-outs earned him the Man of the Series award — steals a march on Doddie Weir as Willie Ofahengaue lends him a helping hand … |
| 19 | Whenever she could afford it Nina tried to buy one of his drawings , but most of the artists thought he was simply a nuisance and told her she was wasting her money . |
| 20 | The 52-year-old former Yorkshire and England opener wanted to join in , but the only way he will be involved is if one of the players requests him . |
| 21 | The court was told of a catalogue of filthy practises in the kitchen , but one of the owners says he 's been harshly treated |
| 22 | In the last year of his life Carleton 's connections with the tightly knit Puritan gentry of the midlands involved him in the Puritan literary conspiracy of the Marprelate tracts . |
| 23 | His father wrote a regular monthly letter and , after Frank had been at Rowden for two years , one of the letters told him that his grandmother Blanche Arbuthnot had died , and left him all her money and her house in Meath . |
| 24 | In Wordsworth 's case , as we might expect , most of the paintings show him in middle or old age after he had become famous . |
| 25 | The finance director of one of the companies says he believes that the productivity increases attributable to IT are coming to an end : ‘ Auditors are getting more productive — but it can only go to a certain level . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ One of the labourers recognised him . |
| 27 | And although none of the critics called him a genius for playing in them , none argued about the extent of his talent either . |
| 28 | Mungo longed to be alone with the book ; to see if , between its stained purple bindings , it held a key to any of the mysteries perplexing him . |
| 29 | The former employee , who was the plaintiff and who sued for the payment to him of commission under the first part of the clause argued that the proviso could be severed and that therefore the obligation of the defendants to pay him such sums remained . |
| 30 | One of the parents accused him of ‘ smiling when it was completely inappropriate to do so ’ . |