Example sentences of "[noun prp] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a Napoleon he can not discover anybody to be ; a Napoleon is a projected , dreamed-up , aimed-at type , a ‘ generalhuman ’ . |
| 2 | Johnson flits over it all in a sentence , and in his letters to Mrs Thrale he came forth only a little more , alluding only to the success of the visit , and to the debate as to whether the savage or the shopkeeper had the best life . |
| 3 | Johnson was human too : in writing to Mrs Thrale he contradicted this point and stated more correctly that both towns had separate civil and academic identities . |
| 4 | For example , to Mrs Thrale he described the scene of this famed moment of quietude briefly — ‘ on a green bank , with a small stream running at my feet , in the midst of savage solitude , with Mountains before me , and on either hand covered with heath ’ — then commented , ‘ I looked round me , and wondered that I was not more affected , but the mind is not at all times equally ready to be put in motion . ’ |
| 5 | To Mrs Thrale he wrote , ‘ No part that I have seen is plain ; you are always climbing or descending , and every step is upon rock or mire . |
| 6 | Johnson found the whole island harsh and barren ; to Mrs Thrale he wrote , ‘ though I have been twelve days upon it , I have little to say . ’ |
| 7 | Following the model of the social organism proposed by Spencer he adopted the view that the plant community was a genuine super-organism with a life of its own . |
| 8 | The new generation grew up on TV ( literally in Howard 's case — before Richie Cunningham he played a kid on the Fifties TV show Leave It To Beaver ) . |
| 9 | As a young doctor in Leiden he paid a seminal visit to the neuroanatomist WJH Nauta , at that time developing a revolutionary anatomical technique for investigating the nervous system by staining degenerating fibres cut off from their parent cell-bodies . |
| 10 | In Leiden he met his lifelong friend and correspondent , the Dutch poet and diplomat , Constantine Huygens . |
| 11 | Bert he seemed to dismiss . |
| 12 | That 's when Major , who was on the photo , he was Major in the army of nineteen fourteen eighteen M C Major M C , military cross well he took charge and er a chap off the shop floor , well he was an old contemptible of the nineteen fourteen to eighteen war , name of Bert he was made Sergeant because he was only one who had got any military experience , and he started with us on the shop floor in doing foot drill . |
| 13 | When our Sandra left Wally he went just like that . |
| 14 | By the time he arrived in Tunis he was so ‘ affected by loneliness that I could not restrain my tears and wept bitterly . ’ |
| 15 | Here in Portugal he pretends not to be a doctor , probably wisely , and steers well clear of anyone who is sick or injured , Lourdes with her dramatic fevers or Tolo knock-kneed with gout , even Rosa 's scrapes and sprains . |
| 16 | By means not specified , from Portugal he arrived in Victorian England , where he got the idea that Lady Laetitia Winthrop ( played by a ‘ discovery ’ from the world of modelling , whose acting talent was 36-23-36 ) was his long-lost love from a world before the subterranean cavern . |
| 17 | He is able to run his part-time practice in Leyburn he worked in Darlington and Richmond before that around the racing calendar . |
| 18 | After years in Fontanellato he was moved by the Bishop , for reasons no one knew at the time , to a lonely parish in the foothills of the Apennines above Parma , where life was not nearly so pleasant for him . |
| 19 | So did the Famlio thugs , after Pulvidon he snarled at them , not wanting to be out doing . |
| 20 | and I was gon na go and apply for but then Neil he sent for me and just asked me , just told me there was a job come up in the office and if I wanted it |
| 21 | But Neil he was gon na go down to Tesco 's but he is , Ipswich , ca n't get down here , so he ca n't sort of travel and you know what the hassle of having to take him and pick him up . |
| 22 | Indeed , when our great man of letters , Ludwig Holberg , heard about Marie he came all this way from Copenhagen to meet her . |
| 23 | Under the name of J. J. Marric he then produced from 1955 onwards a series of books written round a police officer by the name of Gideon . |
| 24 | Crilly , I 'll tell you about the sparkle of Belgravia , the shimmer of white marble , a sumptuous , salubrious white , the sugary white of fluffy friendship , cloudship , feely white , and the slim cobblestone road which led to the river where I met James who was fresh from Waterstone 's with his arms full of Pinter plays , O he was as a young Terence Stamp , Crilly , but for the sly cracks of wisdom about the corners of his eyes , and we drank espresso and he told me about Spain and the high mountains of India , and the Pyrenees he had taken on foot , and though I was as trite as my shopping Saturdays and my small muggy and squirming palms in summertime , he painted my body swirly-lined and peach upon a large canvas and made love to me upon the tip of the Heath with all of London a basin of rooftops beneath us while the sky loomed low in grey and pink , the Heath a dark pudding of sloping mountains , wild and white and wide as Brontë country , with only the smug suburban cliffs of Highgate Village peering from behind its sprawling hem , and big dogs scurried like brown birds to the crevice of foothills and then disappeared , so we made love for a while beneath that sky , which cast a blaze upon us the colour of cream . |
| 25 | Sam Yaeger spent Monday at the boatyard because he 'd been medically stood down from racing as a result of a fall , but by Tuesday he was racing again , and on Wednesday he rode at Ascot , so the boathouse was vulnerable all day Tuesday and again Wednesday morning . ’ |
| 26 | Short , playing black , dominated the game throughout , and at the end of the first session of play on Tuesday he had a clear advantage in an endgame with superior pieces and a very strong passed pawn . |
| 27 | Each Tuesday he meets his unelected Cabinet , the Executive Council , and they approve — ‘ rubber stamp ’ is how critics describe it — legislation passed on by the Civil Service . |
| 28 | On Tuesday he promised they would all come out after a rambling religious message was broadcast . |
| 29 | On the following Tuesday he had tickets for the much-acclaimed Lear at the National , and then two days later a seat in the stalls for the revival of Turandot at the Coliseum . |
| 30 | On the Monday and the Tuesday he came to the front of the house and rang the hall door bell . |