Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] he [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Calvert ( a protégé of Sir Robert Cecil , q.v. , after whom he named his eldest son ) was a member of the privy council and principal secretary of state . |
| 2 | He sought my advice on one or two matters where complaints were made against him of alleged libels , which I had no real difficulty in seeing off and about which he wrote me appreciative letters . |
| 3 | The President of the self-proclaimed " Republic of Kosovo " , Ibrahim Rugova [ for election see p. 38919 ] , held talks in Geneva with Owen and Vance on Sept. 16 , during which he reiterated his fundamental position that Kosovo was to be treated as part of the former Yugoslavia , and not as a province of Serbia . |
| 4 | After three successful years during which he published his first , well received articles , in 1862 , in his own words , he ‘ became restless and desirous of change … and threw [ himself ] on London ’ . |
| 5 | More generally , creation has always been understood as an act of God 's grace , something He could perfectly well have chosen not to do , rather than some kind of necessary mechanism through which He ensured His own existence . |
| 6 | Then he noticed a gap in the wire through which he squeezed his vast height , leaving the crutches behind . |
| 7 | The chief preoccupation of Methuen 's later years , apart from his painting , and one for which he denied himself many luxuries , was the restoration , maintenance , and improvement of Corsham Court , the family seat , and of the collection of pictures which hung in the magnificent gallery built and furnished for them in the 1760s . |
| 8 | It is one of Joe 's great regrets that his father died before he made Raging Bull in 1980 , the film for which he received his first Oscar nomination . |
| 9 | He attended many Royal assizes and many quarter sessions and with Sir John Leveson and Lord Cobham he attended musters , which were called to train all able bodied men , and for which he purchased his own suit of armour . |
| 10 | The example in terms of which he expounds his Cartesian theory of perception is that of eating manna . |
| 11 | However , as I have recorded , Price gave evidence before the magistrate in the course of which he retracted his Swedish evidence in so far as it implicated the applicant . |
| 12 | ‘ Rendre la perception confuse , multiple et simultanée du monde ’ was the title of one of the interviews given to coincide with the publication of Histoire ( 1967 ) , in the course of which he described his narrative strategy in the novel as an attempt to convey , in formal terms , the incoherence of perception and memory . |
| 13 | The father kept back 5/ for himself , out of which he bought his own clothes . |
| 14 | We 've had people we had one chap an old mate of mine he give us fifty P well he 's on the dole there . |
| 15 | Seeing a sheet had been stuffed round the edges of it he suspected something suspicious was going on inside and forced the door open to have a look . |
| 16 | A Disaffection is a problematical book — because of this closeness : we learn very little about how Doyle is seen by companions , very little about the standpoint of those who surround him , those with whom he has his tender and abrasive dealings , with whom he airs his invectives and bitter ironies , with whom he conducts his antagonisms and ingratiations . |
| 17 | Full of admiration and impressed above all by the signs of Nietzsche 's originality of mind and literary power , he saw in him a new kind of worker for the cultural cause with which he identified his own ambitions : " Now you must show what philology is for , and help me bring about the grand " renaissance " … |
| 18 | Nobody excelled him in that judgement , with which he united his own observations on nature , the energy of Michelangelo , and beauty and simplicity of the antique . |
| 19 | Despite the ‘ Rape of the Sabines ’ episode during Christmas 1793 , when a drunken Burns may have overstepped the bounds of propriety towards his hostess , and notwithstanding the lampoons with which he requited his subsequent exile from her house , the intimate friendship that Burns formed with this ‘ really first-rate woman ’ survived its year-long breach . |
| 20 | Phat was Duclos ' particular favourite among the cai because the ruthless sadism with which he disciplined his fellow coolies was matched by the utter servility he showed to Duclos to ensure he retained both his approval and the necessary stamp of his authority . |
| 21 | And they stood in a corner and drank them , and exchanged their names , at last : she much admired the clear way with which he presented his own . |
| 22 | No one could but admire the fortitude with which he bore his last painful illness and the way in which at the same time he stuck to his constituency work which he performed with great conscientiousness . |
| 23 | and he could be pleasantly practical about the craft into which he channelled his surplus energies . |
| 24 | Many people thought he was too powerful , especially when he was able to set up his own sponsored tournaments , sometimes in opposition to official ones , into which he put his own clients and then sold the television rights around the world . |
| 25 | He rides away from Queen Isabella in hopeless fury , rides day and night , and when his mule dies under him he shoulders his ridiculous gipsy patchwork bags , their rowdy colours muted now by dirt ; and walks . |
| 26 | He was stiff with disapproval at the notion of her carrying buckets of steaming hen mash about the place like any farmer 's daughter in the first place and any chance to cram her back into what he considered her proper place as a lady , he would take . |
| 27 | Similarly , he has the rights and obligations of a buyer as against the person from whom he purchases his raw materials . |
| 28 | Yes , but unlike Eliot and Empson , Pound — by the abrupt , brusque and aphoristic way in which he delivers his critical judgements — insists that we understand them as immediately spun off from the imaginative work , thrown over his shoulder , as it were , as he hurries from one part of the workshop to another . |
| 29 | The same is true of an hon. Member who sadly left the Labour Benches during the summer recess , George Buckley , whose courage no one could ever fail to admire , especially the way in which he carried his mortal illness . |
| 30 | The solipsist is in the position of claiming that he has a language in which he describes his present and past experiences , and perhaps speculates about the future . |