Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was chosen for Word after he showed programme bosses a reel of wacky interviews he had done — including one with me . |
| 2 | In a series of striking phrases he described a theory of emotional development which highlights the role of the ‘ ordinary devoted mother ’ in providing a facilitating environment as the basis for growth and development and for later emotional stability . |
| 3 | Mingled with the brimstone smell of burned powder he fancied that he could smell the perfume of roses from the Residency garden , pruned this year by musket fire . |
| 4 | The order came at the end of the summer term and , just as the holidays were beginning , the teacher who was going to replace my father arrived to see what kind of strange specimens he was going to land among and what sort of house he and his family were going to live in . |
| 5 | Mr Gorbachev has again postponed a decision on what sort of economic system he is aiming for by referring the question of private land ownership to a referendum ; when this will take place and exactly what it will ask are not yet decided . |
| 6 | He told US financial markets that have been on a roller-coaster in anticipation of his victory that although he had campaigned on a message of economic growth he understood the importance of stability . |
| 7 | I 'm sure he 's going to carry on showing the same brand of outstanding leadership he has shown with England for some years . ’ |
| 8 | He sat in the corner of the Silver Shuriken , as far away from the bleeding video jukebox and bleeping zapper games as possible , sipping the foul antifreeze that passed for beer in the U.S. of Bloody A. He would have cut off his left doughnut and sold it to Johnny Galtieri for a pint of Six X Wadsworth , two bacon-and-cheddar sarnies and a packet of crisps with a blue twist of salt in them . |
| 9 | In a classic piece of political misjudgment he even told his party conference in a speech that the poll tax would win the Tories the next election . |
| 10 | Wordsworth 's poetic fluency had never been greater , and the landscape near Tintern Abbey , revisited after an absence of five years , released from him a stream of meditative blank verse quite different in style from the humble poems of rural life he had been writing for the Lyrical Ballads . |
| 11 | In the surge of each wave he slithered forward until , for a moment , he felt the sentries ' eyes turned towards him ; he froze clenching his teeth to stop their chattering . |
| 12 | At the start of each season he would stand with his chief clerk at the gate of Lord 's with ‘ a pile of contracts on heavy blue legal paper , everyone tied with a piece of pink ribbon . |
| 13 | Imagine how much time and effort would be required if each speaker had to establish the denotation of each term he produced on each occasion of use . |
| 14 | Anyway , in order to get our interest at the start of each lesson he usually involves us in a silly game of some sort , and I still clearly remember the drama lesson when , thanks to David Smith ( alias ‘ Daz ’ ) , the ‘ warm up ’ game went horribly wrong . |
| 15 | At the end of each evening he would stumble home at an hour when most of the villagers were in bed asleep . |
| 16 | By then it will be clear whether Ian Lang , the Scottish Secretary , intends to proceed with water privatisation , one of eight options he is examining . |
| 17 | And holding up his pad of fixed-penalty tickets he went on , ‘ You 're also under pressure to give out a certain amount of these things ’ ( FN 17/12/87 , p. 25 ) . |
| 18 | Conducting a graduate seminar on the unpromising topic of textual variants he would hold the room spellbound for two hours by his unforced erudition . |
| 19 | The blast of heat from the wall of flaming rubble he saw some twenty yards away , forced him to jerk his head back and retreat to the door leading to the four cells . |
| 20 | Mr. F.J. Norris , the Head of Modern Languages , had first come to the School , on teaching practice , in 1933 , and returned in January 1934 as Form Master of Junior A. He soon moved up into the Senior School . |
| 21 | ‘ There 's only one blind tee shot ; everything is in view , ’ said Johnny , who drew on his recollection of memorable holes he faced as a Tour player in the 1960s . |
| 22 | Initially then , while the insider trading prohibition was directed only at persons connected with the company whose securities were in question , the Cady , Roberts decision broadened the scope of the law considerably to extend to , in this example , a trust officer who traded on the basis of inside information he had obtained from an insider . |
| 23 | At Nice when he heard the devastating news that his Portuguese friend , the artist Amedeo de Sousa Cardoso , had died of Spanish flu he broke down and sobbed like a child . |
| 24 | In a few hours of concentrated assault he could destroy months of determined surreptitious growth ; but then he would discover some other , overlooked area where things had been going to the dogs unheeded and some valiantly struggling patch of wood anemone or bluebells had been choked to the last gasp . |
| 25 | Barnard inherited a large fortune from his father : over a period of fifty years he devoted himself to the formation of a collection of prints , drawings , and paintings , becoming one of the foremost connoisseurs of his day . |
| 26 | Not even hard blows a man could take with dignity , only the manner of measured punishment he might have dealt out to a misbehaving child with whom he had not lost patience . |
| 27 | If the defendant makes a payment in without having obtained a certificate of total benefit he must apply for a certificate on the same day . |
| 28 | Apart from a daughter who was believed to be barren he had no other near kin living and in a state of acute depression he determined to sell up and go to the Holy Land . |
| 29 | Gently , she took the bottle of liquid cream he had used on her ravished buttocks , and poured a liberal dose into the palm of her hand . |
| 30 | Sien had taken to staring into the abyss with the kind of inherent fatality he dreaded in himself . |