Example sentences of "[art] [noun] he [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time in over forty years someone had humbled him on the board he considered his own . |
| 2 | Even on the field he had his own personal trademark — flapping shirt sleeves and long , baggy shorts , which served both as a landmark for his colleagues and to help keep out the cold he felt so badly . |
| 3 | I treasure the photographs I took of Jack , and following its refurbishment the instrument sounds as good as the day he fashioned it all those years ago — a credit to the man and fitting epitaph to his expertise . |
| 4 | In the end he does it all and more . |
| 5 | No doubt there were many contributory external or psychological factors in what was happening to the way he perceived his own personality . |
| 6 | The same secretive manner , the way he considered his own wishes to be paramount , the odd furtive way he stared at her when he thought she was not aware of it . |
| 7 | This is both for the purposes of common courtesy but also as it may have an important bearing on the way he discharges his own continuing professional responsibilities . |
| 8 | It was really uncanny the way he did it all the time . |
| 9 | From the balcony he thanked his many friends for their support , and the Lord God for showing the jury his divine wisdom . |
| 10 | In 1626 he reported to the Commons on the outcome of the York House conference , at which George Villiers , first Duke of Buckingham [ q.v. ] , had declared his support for Arminianism ; and when he delivered one of the Commons charges against Buckingham in the Lords he added his own gloss that he was ‘ the principal patron of a semi-pelagian , semi-popish faction , dangerous to church and state , lately set on foot among us . ’ |
| 11 | At least five tragic scenarios had gone through my head by the time he told me that Dad had died . |
| 12 | In The Facts he examines his own vexed state with reference to the vexed question of whether it is better to make things up , and to distort them , and by contemplating his earlier re-invention of the time-honoured dualistic account of literature and human nature . |
| 13 | Far from calling himself a god he admits his own inadequacies — he can not rebuild the dome , he can not claim to have fed on honey-dew and drunk the Milk of paradise . |
| 14 | As a manager he remains his own greatest fan and although his playing days are over , he was probably the most creative player on Rangers ' books : a genius in search of a mirror . |
| 15 | Those cropped military curls , that monumental neck and straight nose , would have looked well in a bronze helmet ; no doubt he recognised his own kind , and was at home with them . |
| 16 | For a breathspace he saw his own body ; he thought that Taliesin and Fribble had carried it to a settle beneath a window , and he wanted to grasp at them , for they had been dear , good friends , and the knowledge that he would never see them again was scarcely to be borne . |