Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And Steve got the free speed he was after . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | What 's the speed he 's travelling at ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Watch me , ’ said Amiss , as at high speed he put on the clothes Pooley had just brought him . |
| 15 | Not by doing it the speed he 's doing it . |
| 16 | That 's good though that is. was running along a track at a constant speed he passed the hundred and fifty metre mark . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | On cosmology he generally followed Tycho Brahe , whose scheme he reproduced in diagrammatic form . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | With the aid of a scholarship he studied at the University of Aberdeen , where he graduated MA before he was twenty years old . |
| 21 | Through his exhaustive and objective scholarship he significantly influenced subsequent research into English religious dissent . |
| 22 | The poor little rich boy was looked after by a second mother in the person of strict Ilse , from Germany : this did a great deal , but not enough , to relieve the isolation he felt — which , as his researches disclosed , was to be a factor in the isolation and rejection suffered in turn by his younger brother , who also left for the Mediterranean . |
| 23 | Maggie looked on this isolation he had built up around them as distinction and strength . |
| 24 | His despondent letter to Thelwall was written immediately following an absence of ‘ a day or two ’ , during which , it seems likely , he walked westward into the Exmoor fringes above Porlock , the home territory of his maternal ancestors , and in a lonely farmhouse near Culbone Church sought the isolation he needed to complete Osorio . |
| 25 | Abandoning the isolation he had sought so avidly in September , he went back so as to be at home for Christmas , always a precarious time for him . |
| 26 | The isolation he keeps me in . |
| 27 | In the garbage he belongs ! ’ |
| 28 | Whereas in his earlier four- and five-part motets Andrea had generally maintained a conservative style , the Penitential Psalms show his skill in what one may call choral orchestration , and in the Concerti he developed polychoral writing far beyond the simple antiphony of the salmi spezzati of Ruffino and Willaert . |
| 29 | By the faint , clouded moonlight from the small window in the adjoining washroom he was able to orient himself ; he struggled upright , leaning awkwardly against the wall , hampered by his bound hands and lacerated feet , and began to walk . |
| 30 | Moreover , Hahnemann discovered that if a patient needed a particular remedy he or she tended to be very sensitive to it — much more so than someone for whom it was not indicated . |