Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each Easter he made wonderful bejewelled eggs for the tsars or kings of Russia . |
| 2 | In due course he 'll rub it off himself . ’ |
| 3 | This led some people to maintain that he had derived the idea of civil disobedience from Thoreau , a fact which Gandhi himself denied.a In due course he substituted the phrase ‘ civil resistance ’ for ‘ civil disobedience ’ on the grounds that it conveyed the notion of non-violence better , but he continued to regard civil disobedience as a branch of satyāgraha . |
| 4 | ‘ For now , it seems , the prince has revealed to Sir Thomas the depth of his regard for you — even going so far as to say that if in due course he may not marry yourself , he will remain unwed . |
| 5 | In due course he was told that a short three hour trip was in the offing so he collected his parachute and went with the crew to the aircraft . |
| 6 | John Stork — when in his mid-30s — became aware of headhunting when he found himself on the receiving end of a headhunter 's call for the first time ; in due course he became the successful candidate , but did not take the job , staying on as a member of the international Board of Masius Wynne-Williams advertising agency , where he had earlier been head of research . |
| 7 | In due course he calls witnesses — eye witnesses , police , inspectors from the AIB and others — to substantiate his account . |
| 8 | When she became queen she encouraged English refugees from William the Conqueror 's tyranny to settle in her husband 's country , though in due course he was forced to reach an agreement with the Norman invader . |
| 9 | In due course he succeeded his father as king in Egypt , marrying his sister Isis . |
| 10 | So Connor declared his feelings at last , and in due course he and Ruth were married and now , almost a year later , she was going to have his child . |
| 11 | And in due course he came … |
| 12 | In due course he was returned to normal health , except that the acids had removed all the pigmentation from his exposed skin . |
| 13 | In due course he moved , like Dominic , to Bologna , from whose schools he was promoted chamber clerk to Pope Honorius III before 1224 . |
| 14 | For however he acquired that money he must have acquired it , Wexford was certain , during the 19th or the 20th of May . |
| 15 | He wins the pools and with that money he buys an isolated country cottage , where he plans to keep Miranda until she falls in love with him . |
| 16 | they 've gave us since we 've been creating that much she 's had been in to see Mr she said and he says oh no he says er that 's not right Brenda , he says er mine are all guaranteed until they 're earning that money he says you ca n't just do it |
| 17 | In the 1659 Parliament he sat for his old home town ; in one of his two recorded speeches he had to justify having arrested a leading Fifth-Monarchy man on the orders of the late lord protector . |
| 18 | She heard the sharp intake of breath ; what little patience he possessed had clearly vanished with her last smart remark . |
| 19 | Almost as if he had willed himself there , he found himself standing on the scree at the foot of the rock wall , staring upwards , searching with the little experience he had gained on school climbing expeditions for footholds . |
| 20 | In the political field he supplied munificent financial support to the Liberal Party and its numerous causes . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | want that bit he wo n't talk to me if I had that . |
| 23 | Without consulting Ann , he announced that the boy was to be named after is grandfather Tristram Pascoe ; and having taken that decision he went off down to the harbour to see if Gristy was back from the fishing and to crow over winning the wager . |
| 24 | It was deliberately dismissive , but a scorching anger rose in response to the searingly contemptuous look he gave her . |
| 25 | Yet Major did not choose to discuss the momentous decision he was about to take with his wife . |
| 26 | He argues for the classical form of government ; to rest on political apathy he believes ‘ is a way of preserving liberty by castrating it ’ . |
| 27 | He reached into his pocket and extracted the largest coin he could find . |
| 28 | However , Mr Yeltsin is still far from winning the two-thirds majority he needs to get a new constitution adopted . |
| 29 | ‘ Ca n't you hear from the tone of Holberg 's Epistle how little sympathy he had for her ! |
| 30 | ‘ Like Bogart , Steve brought himself to each part he played and something of each of them rubbed off on his personality . |