Example sentences of "[adj -er] [noun pl] he " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Anticipating Kravchuk 's remarks at a press conference on Nov. 4 shortly after the Russian ratification of START , Ukraine 's Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma had warned that unless the West offered further inducements he would have difficulty in persuading parliament to approve the treaty . |
| 2 | Sir Alf Ramsey included David as substitute in his England Under 23 side against Wales at Swansea on l November 1967 , but Palace fans of the period will contend that David was worthy of further honours He eventually left us for orient in August 1973 ; his departure was regretted by the fans , who had always held this likeable young man in immense respect and affection . |
| 3 | In later and easier days he would certainly have studied mathematics at university , but instead left school when he was seventeen . |
| 4 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland what further representations he has received on hospitals applying for trust status . |
| 5 | This Leo rejected , but after further negotiations he did suppress the archbishopric of Lichfield , and this was accepted by an English synod at Clofesho in 803 . |
| 6 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what further consultations he has had regarding ’ Options for Change ’ , in the light of the disintegration of the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | Will he tell the House and my constituents what further incentives he can provide to ensure that small businesses are created and the economic blight is removed from my constituency ? |
| 8 | It was a mark of the esteem in which John Burridge was held at Selhurst Park , both as a goalkeeper and as a showman , that whenever he has subsequently returned here with his later clubs he has invariably been accorded a warm welcome , both from Palace fans and from his former playing colleagues . |
| 9 | His pictures vary in style : in his later days he showed himself capable of the common sort of conventionally flattering portrait , but , particularly from his earlier years in London , there exists a body of work demonstrating his great talent for lively detail and natural rather than conventional compositions . |
| 10 | Though dogged by ill health in later years he was still able to work in his particularly single-minded way , largely because of the devotion of his wife Mitzi whom he met during the war , while serving with the Royal Engineers . |
| 11 | In later years he was once asked whether he , who was shy , was anguished when forced to go out visiting homes in Liverpool and to try to make the first touch with a strange family . |
| 12 | In later years he thought that twice in his life , and twice only , he seriously wondered whether Frank was right , and he wrong , about religion . |
| 13 | In his later years he recalled with pride the opportunity it gave him to lecture such eminent men as Sir Henry Stanley on the correct procedure for expedition photography . |
| 14 | Here John learned to appreciate the material things in life and in later years he allowed journalists to make the mistake of attributing John George 's wealth and position to him at this time . |
| 15 | Mackay 's financial situation worsened following the war , especially after the runaway inflation wiped out the value of the annuity he had purchased with money left him by his mother , so that in his later years he was completely dependent on the sale of his books , which never regained their earlier popularity . |
| 16 | In later years he turned to golf and became one of the most successful amateur players in the history of the sport in Canada . |
| 17 | At Dulwich and Oxford University he was an excellent athlete and Rugby Union Player , while in later years he became a good club cricketer and a member of I Zingari . |
| 18 | When he thought of India in later years he would always see these two men and two bullocks and the leather bag flooding out its water as it settled on the ground . |
| 19 | But in his later years he did n't come into the smithy until after breakfast . |
| 20 | In his later years he suffered ill health and his work was curtailed . |
| 21 | In later years he visited the four dominions , for each of which he established a graduate studentship ; and Melbourne and New Zealand followed St Andrews in conferring honorary degrees . |
| 22 | During his later years he practised law in London and on the Northern circuit . |
| 23 | He was elected a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1875 ; in his later years he wrote three papers on the Severn tunnel , one on ‘ arches ’ , and one on the disposal of sewage . |
| 24 | In his later years he took to gardening again . |
| 25 | In his later years he suffered from occasional bouts of insanity . |
| 26 | Smith suffered periodically from gout — in 1720 he wrote that the drawing of a sketch ‘ at this time has occasioned me to make many a wry face by reason I could neither sit nor stand to do it ’ — and in his later years he put on weight : ‘ It is unlucky that Mr. Smith is grown so unweildy , ’ commented Dr George Clarke [ q.v. ] of All Souls College , Oxford , in 1730 . |
| 27 | In his later years he became a student of Egyptology , and was also a connoisseur who amassed a fine collection of medieval manuscripts and monastic seals . |
| 28 | In later years he drifted away from his original Liberalism and his later Labour ties , and in 1910–11 served as a Conservative nominee as alderman on the London county council . |
| 29 | There had been a period when he allowed Barbara Castle , Dick Crossman and George Wigg , all of whom suffered from the belief that politics was a conspiracy , to influence him too much , but in later years he had broken free from them and I suddenly realised how much I had got used to him being there to shoulder the final responsibility , to feeling able to turn to him naturally for a second opinion and for well-informed advice . |
| 30 | In later years he rose to the position of shipping manager and had about four small steamers and a score of sailing barges to supervise . |