Example sentences of "the [adj] he [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Promoter Andy Norman is hailing the line-up at the National Indoor Arena as the finest he has assembled in 20 years — and the best anywhere in the world this winter . |
| 2 | Kalmia augustifolia had spread rapidly , being left undisturbed to sucker , a method of propagation he considered better than by seed ; a Cephalanthus occidentalis , the largest he had seen , ‘ liked the situation well enough ’ and Itea virginica was ‘ in the greatest vigour ’ . |
| 3 | He hath filled the hungry with good things and the rich he hath sent empty away . |
| 4 | The journey was the longest he had ridden for several years and he was feeling his age . |
| 5 | The night seemed the longest he had endured . |
| 6 | Brian Smith , this season 's Oxford University captain who is looking to become a dual international by adding Irish caps to the six he has won already for Australia , plays against some of his former Wallaby team-mates on Sunday at Iffley Road . |
| 7 | So Harrison had lost the first fall unfairly : in the second he had twisted his man feet up and then let him crash to the ground . |
| 8 | He could see men coming away now , too , from where the ships had been put : the first job , and the heaviest he had shared with his father . |
| 9 | The next time Seve played after his Open win he was at St Mellion and playing the worst he 'd played to shoot a 79 . |
| 10 | Yes , it is a bad winter , the worst he has seen in sixty-five years of herding reindeer here . |
| 11 | John Spencely , chairman of Edinburgh firm Reiach & Hall , describes this recession as one of the worst he has experienced . |
| 12 | She tried to remember the little he had said about Suvarov , but all she could think of was that without him neither she nor Anthony would have met David . |
| 13 | He learned about world events rather as a Trobriand Islander might — from chance remarks and accidental contacts — and , from the little he had heard , he had not much desire to know more . |
| 14 | The little he 'd said indicated that his stepfather had been deeply emotionally involved with Isabelle . |
| 15 | I suppose I could have thought from the little he 'd said up until then that my half-brother was dead , or ill , or that something had happened to him , but I knew then it was something Eric had done , and there was only one thing he could have done which would make my father look worried . |
| 16 | Molly 's uncle , Philip , Lord Noel-Baker , one of our Vice-Presidents recently celebrated his 90th birthday and it gives us great pleasure to add our greetings to the many he has received from all over the world . |
| 17 | After the third he learned to treat the Liverpool fences with the respect they deserved : from then on his jumping was exemplary , and by the eleventh he had pulled his way into the lead . |
| 18 | By the 1970s he 'd moved it back onto the street . |
| 19 | Nothing is known of his early life except that his background was in the building trades — in 1724 he was described as a bricklayer , and later as a carpenter — but by the mid-1720s he had established two connections which brought him a place amongst the innermost circles of English Palladianism . |
| 20 | All the measures proposed by Mr Lamont to pull the UK out of the slump — particularly on housing , construction , cars and company tax incentives — are bang on target but there is a strong suspicion that the billions he has pumped in may not be quite enough . |
| 21 | He has pulled down princes from their thrones and exalted the lowly The hungry he has filled with good things , the rich sent empty away . |
| 22 | The millions he had earned from Formula One added to the money he must be making now meant he could provide Thomas with cast-iron financial security , an exceedingly comfortable home and a first-class education . |
| 23 | The nearest he has come to an England place since was three years ago when he broke a thumb within 24 hours of being selected to face India . |
| 24 | One of the first he had received from Sloane reported on a new hothouse at Chelsea and listed the exotics already growing there . |
| 25 | In evidence earlier this week Lord Aldington , 75 , formerly Brigadier Toby Lowe , said the first he had heard that the men , women and children sent back from the British-occupied zone of Austria had been tortured and massacred was from Count Tolstoy in 1979 . |
| 26 | Pearce expressed surprise and said that this was the first he had heard of it . |
| 27 | Only one so far — or this was the first he had heard of , but the affair could snowball and sometimes this kind of thing took an unforeseen twist . |
| 28 | Wickham looked at Marshall who said it was the first he had heard of it either . |
| 29 | ‘ At the last pre-inquiry meeting someone from the Department of Transport jumped up and said it was the first he had heard of the pylons , ’ she said . |
| 30 | Warne 's wonder ball was all the more special because it was the first he had bowled in an Ashes contest . |