Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [noun] [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | A park keeper was ordered to pay £800 compensation to the owner of a £1,000 model yacht he sank . |
| 2 | DESERT Rat hero Theo Pyke left 1p to his local council — in payment of a poll tax bill he had already settled . |
| 3 | Now he has to content himself with the fact that the only replica of a Captain Cook ship he has been involved in was one built for the new shopping centre in Middlesbrough eight years ago . |
| 4 | Under the gloomy strip lighting of a police interrogation cell he might be stripped of his self-possession , and confess . |
| 5 | FIREFIGHTERS yesterday freed a four-year-old who trapped his thumb in the bracket of a car wing mirror he found while playing . |
| 6 | The fourth child of a Glasgow Gorbals haberdasher he rose by sheer hard work to be chief metallurgist of the Atomic Energy Authority and chairman of British Steel . |
| 7 | And Green had developed a passion for a university law student he met at work in Salford , Greater Manchester . |
| 8 | Green had developed a passion for a university law student he had met at work in Salford , Greater Manchester . |
| 9 | Emboldened by Carters support , the Shah ordered the publications of the scurrilous attack on Khomeini which precipitated the first of the riots against him and , within a year , had led to his fall , by early 1979 , after what he saw as US failure to support him , and as he now looked for a refuge form Morocco he was less certain . |
| 10 | He was not , in fact , an exponent of the martial arts , but for a few short but character-forming weeks during a university summer vacation he had boxed a kangaroo called Cobber in a travelling circus . |
| 11 | As a yacht delivery skipper he had to be a damn good sailor . |
| 12 | From the very beginning of his career as a trade union official he had envisaged that the ideal situation would be one in which neither employer nor union attempted to dominate the employment situation , but in which both sides met on a conciliation board and jointly regulated the terms and conditions under which seamen followed their vocation and perhaps even the rates at which freight and passengers were transported . |
| 13 | ‘ As a vacuum cleaner salesman he has no sex appeal whatsoever , ’ she said . |
| 14 | After a year spent in Uganda as a volunteer science teacher he passed the Cambridge entrance exam with ease and graduated with a double first in natural sciences in 1969 . |
| 15 | If he was up for a part in a Night Nurse commercial he 'd be sure to get it unless Mickey Rourke turned up for the same audition . |
| 16 | In a Northern Ireland accent he asked for the manager 's office . |
| 17 | The two causes were closely linked from the 1840s and it is not surprising that when Cassell visited New York in 1853 as a delegate to a World Temperance Convention he would also use Beecher at work in Ohio . |
| 18 | [ Drawing on a case register summary he continues ] any further reduction of mental hospital beds will be to the detriment of the chronic mentally disturbed person . |
| 19 | She was profoundly scarred by her father 's suicide in 1976 , and blames the tragedy on the mental stress caused by the Wilson government 's reneging on a fighter bomber deal he had set up with Sweden . |
| 20 | After the approval for the names at a Branch Management meeting he dispatched the letters of invitation . |
| 21 | At a Shadow Cabinet meeting he found that the Viceroy 's declaration was strongly opposed by his three most senior colleagues , Austen Chamberlain , Birkenhead and Churchill . |
| 22 | At a hospital news conference he read out a speech of thanks . |
| 23 | At a hospital news conference he read out a speech of thanks . |
| 24 | Leslie , who passed his driving test last month , could only be identified by a cash card number he scrawled on his arm . |
| 25 | In a taped voluntary statement said to have been given by MacIver , a lorry driver , he told Inspector Angus Chisholm he had been approached two weeks earlier in a pub by a Glasgow taxi driver he knew called Joe Hughes . |