Example sentences of "he [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only is she pretty ; she has a reputation for being more of a Socialist than her husband and far more level-headed than he about the trappings of prime ministerial power . |
| 2 | ‘ Is he about the right age to have worked with Mills ? ’ |
| 3 | Is he as the shadow spokesman for Wales , unaware of that ? |
| 4 | It certainly has stuck already , because he partially manufactured it , did n't he as the Chancellor ? |
| 5 | Where was he during the past year 's review of the telecoms industry ? |
| 6 | But I 've got a photograph of him , and I know he after the war was over he went back and married a nurse . |
| 7 | Now aged seventy-four I have lived the past fifty years within hailing distance of Earl Grey 's monument : he of the 1832 Reform Act . |
| 8 | We camp Lappish style in a lavvu that Tor , he of the wall-to-wall shoulders , has paddled here on his deck . |
| 9 | He was a tall , rather gloomy man in his forties , dressed , as he always and incongruously was , in the blue and white of the F.G.Y. and accompanied by Herman Guttenbruk , he of the trip to , and interminable lecture on , the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | Vote for Huggett ( 1948 ) , for example , shows the family patriarch played by Jack Warner making a stand against a corrupt local councillor , then with the he of the local youth club and three eccentric old ladies , exposing the property transactions that stand in the way of a lido and public garden being built to serve the local community . |
| 11 | According to Ron Chernow , in his recent book ‘ The House of Morgan ’ , many negotiations took place in all-night sessions in the ‘ black library ’ of J. Pierpont Morgan , he of the bulbous , acne-ridden nose and the investment bank that then dominated American finance . |
| 12 | So certain was he of the Huge Reward that he was feeling unusually generous . |
| 13 | But how typical is he of the sport ? |
| 14 | Under the urban direction of Radio 4 broadcaster John Ebdon — he of the ‘ distinctive dark-brown voice ’ according , that is , to the planetarium 's press handout — the London Planetarium is very much a peculiarly British institution . |
| 15 | Yet only he of the British Medical Journal actually explained what Petrofsky was trying to do — stimulating muscles electrically in their natural walking sequence . |
| 16 | Of course , it is purely coincidental that to help other mothers and brides-to-be , we also consulted Harry Dodson , he of The Victorian Kitchen Garden fame , to find out which flowers a Victorian country bride would have picked to decorate the church and make her bouquet . |
| 17 | The patron saint of Tui is San Télmo , he of the blue discharge on pointed objects in electric storms , and from the cathedral you have a tranquil view over the Mińo to Valença in Portugal , to where we walked for lunch across the iron bridge built by Eiffel . |
| 18 | Bryant , he of the slicked hair , spectacles , mouthful of teeth and curly pipe , was 21 when he won his first county title and first played for England in 1958 . |
| 19 | Nearly half a century ago , J.M.W. Turner — he of the prize — was subject to the same patronising disparagement as Mr Davey today ’ . |
| 20 | And at Marlborough Larry Rivers — he of the recently published memories — takes a steely look at ‘ Art and the Artist ’ . |
| 21 | But England 's latest problem was new boy Rashid Latif , he of the frantic cap-throwing episode at Headingley , who now , having kept wicket with a dexterity to which Moin , whom he now replaced , could never aspire , began to bat with the attractive aplomb of a Dujon . |
| 22 | Mark Tansey , he of the sly sense of humour , has often explored landscapes , sometimes building them up from what appear to be lines of typography . |
| 23 | Well , it is summertime and if you have trouble getting time on the courts here in town and tripping to the Hamptons presents a problem why not simply go to Terry Dintenfass where the witty William King he of the loopy lanky aluminoids has set up a gallery-wide installation called ‘ Tennis : The Monument ’ ? |
| 24 | Known , but somehow often overlooked , is the fact that Ellsworth Kelly he of the precise abstract geometries and the monochromatic fields has always kept a pencil within easy reach , taking it up regularly over the years to make line drawings , uninflected by modelling , chiefly of plants and flowers . |
| 25 | One of the names was Nigel Dempster , he of the gossip column , who shared a house in London with Anthony Rufus Isaacs , the film producers , and Garth Wood , the psychiatrist . |
| 26 | A manufacturer of rich men 's toys , Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd had itself always been something of a rich man 's toy , owners like the mythical David Brown ( he of the DB4 and 5 ) underwriting the firm 's losses for sheer love of the marque . |
| 27 | The press saw in Jean Lecanuet — he of the white teeth , flashing smile , youthful appearance , centrist and pro-US ‘ Atlanticist ’ policies — a French J. F. Kennedy ; Mitterrand , the left FGDS candidate , was perceived as stilted and ill-at-ease . ’ |
| 28 | This was for centuries a strong point and later a prison ; among its prisoners , during the time of the Revolutionary Wars , was Lord Elgin , he of the marbles , who was held hostage in Lourdes on his way back to England from Turkey . |
| 29 | The following seven people sat around the table — both Gordons , that is , Professor Thomas and the host Sir Alexander ; Provost Jopp , he of the conferring ; Professor Ross and Professor Dunbar ; Boswell and Johnson . |
| 30 | Yet Boswell and other Johnsonians report that , long before the pension , Johnson wondered aloud if holding up his right hand would have secured victory for the Stuarts at Culloden to Prince Charles 's army , he was not sure he would have held it up ; so little confidence had he in the right claimed by the house of Stuart , and so fearful was he of the consequences of another revolution on the throne of Great Britain' . |