Example sentences of "[noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he emptied his bladder he stared at his face in the shaving mirror . |
| 2 | from which impasse he came . |
| 3 | As long as history is assumed to operate according to the protocols of a conventional logic , where a contradiction simply means you can not think it or do it as Hirst supposes , then it remains at the impasse he describes . |
| 4 | He pleaded for mufakat , an Islamic term for the gotong-royong he had long advocated : consensus , harmony , unity . |
| 5 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 6 | In a Napoleon he can not discover anybody to be ; a Napoleon is a projected , dreamed-up , aimed-at type , a ‘ generalhuman ’ . |
| 7 | His re-election to Parliament came in 1679 in Rochester , for which borough he sat until 1690 ; thereafter , until 1694 , he represented Queenborough and finally Maidstone again in 1695–8 . |
| 8 | Steve had gone off somewhere so , to help me along , I nicked one of his black bombers , the capsules of speed he always had around . |
| 9 | And Steve got the free speed he was after . |
| 10 | A son of Green Desert , Magic Ring is out of an Empery mare and there are indications that he will stay a mile despite the amazing speed he displayed as a juvenile . |
| 11 | The pilot stated that as the aircraft rose above the treeline , at about 150 feet above the ground it involuntarily banked to the right , and despite maintaining the climb speed he could not prevent the roll to the right — which continued past ninety degrees of bank . |
| 12 | She looked up at him and he acknowledged her presence by a brief glance , but without slackening speed he rode past her , towards the wood . |
| 13 | What 's the speed he 's travelling at ? |
| 14 | He steered the ten-year-old Daimler under the Dersingham arch and drove straight into the cathedral close at the same speed he 'd used to cover the miles from Oldfield . |
| 15 | ‘ Watch me , ’ said Amiss , as at high speed he put on the clothes Pooley had just brought him . |
| 16 | Not by doing it the speed he 's doing it . |
| 17 | That 's good though that is. was running along a track at a constant speed he passed the hundred and fifty metre mark . |
| 18 | And before we can create this new confident person , we frequently have to break down the poor self-image he or she has acquired over the years . |
| 19 | On cosmology he generally followed Tycho Brahe , whose scheme he reproduced in diagrammatic form . |
| 20 | Like many another driver , Jackie had clearly contemplated the risks he was taking ; he had had several severe accidents , so he knew what was involved ; he knew the odds . |
| 21 | Afterwards , he would sit down , realize the risks he had taken and start to worry about what he had done ! |
| 22 | Hooto ( TM ) may , even now , be congratulating himself on the risks he 's taken , the frontiers he 's conquered . |
| 23 | But taking no risks he rose again into the night . |
| 24 | He said he tried previously to warn MacQuillan of the risks he was running . |
| 25 | On the whole speculation is frowned upon because it sometimes drives prices up in a monopolistic fashion ( through the cornering of some market ) and because it creates volatility ; yet where the speculator is a skilled trader in risks he is part of the system . |
| 26 | His eyes were bright with determination , his face flushed with a sense of the risks he was taking , and the still born smile twitched away at the comer of his mouth as though he was trying to eat his beard . |
| 27 | He must know not only about the risks he wishes to avoid , or to take , and the price at which he is prepared to transact , but also more about the characteristics of the underlying instrument such as its volatility and the degree to which its price is correlated with the risky prospect against which he seeks a hedge ( or upon which he plans to speculate ) . |
| 28 | Vince had reluctantly admitted his part in it , but had tried to appear nonchalant about the risks he was taking . |
| 29 | For those whose scholarship he respected he was prepared to go to endless trouble , but to those whom he suspected of pretensions exceeding their knowledge or understanding he gave short shrift . |
| 30 | With the aid of a scholarship he studied at the University of Aberdeen , where he graduated MA before he was twenty years old . |