Example sentences of "a [noun] [pron] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he also had a genuine vocation for healing — a vocation which he was unable to satisfy because his poor background prevented his going to medical college . ’ |
| 2 | Dr Dering declined this contemptible compensation , and risked crippling legal costs on a trial which he hoped would win him heavy damages . |
| 3 | Oh he used to wash them and he had a proper , he had a case what he made up with a rack so as he could drop them all in . |
| 4 | By devastating his fields , orchards and vineyards you hoped to force him to listen to a case which he was otherwise disposed to ignore ; by military means he was to be compelled to come to terms . |
| 5 | If a judge , applying the correct test , comes to a decision which he is entitled to reach on the evidence before him , an appellate court will not interfere with that decision . |
| 6 | Judge Wroath had applied the right test and come to a decision which he was entitled to come to on the evidence before him . |
| 7 | It was a decision which he regretted for some years , although within the university he proved an effective teacher and he was dean of the faculty of science from 1894 until 1913 . |
| 8 | This would explain the cases where the plaintiff accepts a lift with a driver whom he knows is drunk . |
| 9 | Brian would have his damages reduced for contributory negligence in riding with a driver who he knew was drunk and in failing to wear a seat belt . |
| 10 | At Tehran , in November 1943 , Roosevelt did his best ( often at Churchill 's expense ) to forge a lasting bond with Stalin , a course which he continued to pursue ( with some reservations ) until his death in April 1945 . |
| 11 | It was a part which he played well . |
| 12 | Mr Brown has a constant reminder of their week-long adventure in the shape of a beard which he grew specially to keep his face warm ! |
| 13 | He gave his scalp a good scratch , then smoothed his hair down as best he could and twisted the longer bits at the back into a coil which he stuffed inside his collar . |
| 14 | If that is the case , and if in these circumstances the [ defendant ] is guilty of theft , it must follow that anyone who obtains goods in return for a cheque which he knows will be dishonoured on presentation , or indeed by way of any other similar pretence , would be guilty of theft . |
| 15 | If that is the case , and if in these circumstances the appellant is guilty of theft , it must follow that anyone who obtains goods in return for a cheque which he knows will be dishonoured on presentation , or indeed by way of any other similar pretence , would be guilty of theft . |
| 16 | Among the scattered debris he found a watch which he kept as souvenir until shortly before he died when he asked his nephew , John , to take the watch and try and trace a relative of the crew to give it to . |
| 17 | This order compels a person to do something under a contract which he or she has refused to do . |
| 18 | He was also a superb phonetician , and a master of mimicry , a technique which he used to the full as a raconteur . |
| 19 | In a recent paper , Halilsoy ( 1988 b ) has considered a technique which he applied initially in the context of colliding shock electromagnetic waves ( Halilsoy , 1988 a ) . |
| 20 | Gen Aoun said Mr Muawad was no more than ‘ a former deputy ’ of a parliament which he had dissolved . |
| 21 | The male is smaller than the female and has a gonopodium which he uses to fertilise the female . |
| 22 | However , the accused who sneaks out of a cinema which he has sneaked in to is not guilty : no service has been " done " . |
| 23 | The murder had only occurred ten minutes before , but the old man already saw himself in the role of vital witness , and was polishing the phrases in a story which he would tell many times . |
| 24 | This is a bit difficult , I think , to follow , and what Proust means perhaps becomes clearer in a story which he himself told on more than one occasion about the painter Turner . |
| 25 | Una , his 10-year-old which collected breed honours at the 1991 Royal Welsh Show , is the daughter of a cow which he had imported from France during the build up his herd of 45 breeding cows at Drysgolgoch , Llanfyrnach . |
| 26 | He had acknowledged similar courtesies a number of times since riding out , and guessed that it was the sable hat of a Khan which he carried in his hand which was attracting recognition , rather than his actual eminence . |
| 27 | Certainly what Devon Loch heard at that moment was not a noise which he had heard before , and it was some noise — a raucous surge of patriotic fervour as the Royal horse galloped to certain victory in front of his owner the Queen Mother and her daughters Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret , a rapturous climax befitting what was about to be one of the greatest moments of racing history . |
| 28 | Lord Reid 's view that the restraint of trade doctrine only applies if the convenantor has given up a freedom which he previously possessed was supported by Lords Morris and Hodson . |
| 29 | ( 2 ) The following classes of cases are usually not subject to the doctrine : ( a ) those which include a restraint which does not involve the convenantor in giving up a freedom which he would otherwise have enjoyed unless the restraint creates a positive duty to do something which restricts his freedom during the period of its operation ; ( b ) those which , under contemporary conditions , may be found to have passed into the accepted and normal currency of commercial or contractual or conveyancing relations ; and ( c ) those in which the purpose and nature of the restraint is coterminous with the purpose of the contract . |
| 30 | The other end had a hook which he fitted into a ring on the byre wall . |