Example sentences of "by a [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fyodor Sergeyev , executive director of the State Russian Museum , was shot dead on 19 November outside an underground station in St Petersburg by a man he had arranged to meet . |
| 2 | It was opened by a man he had not seen before . |
| 3 | He visited them in Egypt , accompanied by a girl he 'd met in a bar , who proved to be a lesbian . |
| 4 | When Eleanor 's book of short stories was accepted by a publisher he had suggested , Nigel found that he had mixed feelings . |
| 5 | Findspots and masons ' marks confirm Pausanias 's division of the subjects between east and west , and his order ( except that by a slip he omits the dragging of Cerberus from Hades ) . |
| 6 | It was the remains of a childish fancy , created by a story he had read , but it returned to him most vividly at this moment . |
| 7 | Struck by a thought he looked over the street , where the gaslights were being lighted . |
| 8 | The others would be pinned there by a courtesy he did not merit . |
| 9 | Burton put himself on trial , later on public trial , either because he was driven to it by a daemon he could not command or because he willed the daemon to come out and fight . |
| 10 | In a small pub by a bridge he had a drink and a salad . |
| 11 | But by a miracle he had not been killed outright , and was saved . |
| 12 | ( By a statement he means roughly a declarative sentence as used , or as it might be used , on some particular occasion , so that indicator words like ‘ I ’ ’ this ' and ‘ now ’ are given a definite reference . ) |
| 13 | In April the horse ambulance was called to Trechmann Weekes when Bert Leigh of New Town had both legs crushed by a wagon he was pushing . |
| 14 | His nose was broken in two places by a player he had sent off for violent play . |
| 15 | The male sits on a favoured perch and when this is visited by a rival he sidles up to the intruder . |
| 16 | Stewart Hickman , 20 , of Gloucester Terrace , Haswell Plough , near Durham , was remanded in custody until Wednesday by Chester-le-Street magistrates yesterday charged with grievous bodily harm with intent , reckless driving and other motoring offences following an incident in which a policeman was treated for a neck injury and bruising after being hit by a car he was attempting to stop . |
| 17 | And then he was partly taken over by a piece he neither intended nor wanted to write and which preoccupied him obsessively , the dramatisation of the dispute , in the Yellow House in Arles , between Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh . |
| 18 | In which fall Mr. Robert Bowes took his death by a wound he received in his soul with some clamp and the most of us bruised and hurt . |
| 19 | ‘ Poorboy ! 'said Charlotte , suddenly outraged by the weariness and exasperation of this ineffectual little man , worn out by a job he had probably chosen as the most profitable within his scope , and now found to be extending him far beyond the end of his tether . |
| 20 | In one , during the Pandava brothers ' exile , Arjuna , cursed and unmanned by a woman he has rejected , dances and camps it up like a drag-queen in warpaint . |
| 21 | It is ironic that the hypocrite , who is seen throughout with a neurotic distrust of women , and whose every second word to his wife is an insult , should finally be exposed by a woman he had trusted , from whom he had snatched the handkerchief without even thinking her worth swearing to secrecy ( III.iii.320ff . ) . |
| 22 | The perch 's efforts are often disrupted though , by an invasion he is powerless to repel — mass spawning schools of up to 20 minnows Pungtungia herzi can descend on his territory , lay their eggs alongside his , and then depart . |
| 23 | He returned to England on Saturday after delivering £20,000-worth of baby milk to Romania and was incensed by an article he read on his return . |
| 24 | The first person clearly to express this idea was the German physiologist Hermann von Helmholtz , who wrote in 1866 that to see things is to form ‘ unconscious conclusions from analogy ’ : by an analogy he meant a pre-existing theory , or model , of what the world is like . |