Example sentences of "[pron] he [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He caught a glimpse of the fair hair and saw that she was talking to someone he recognised as the drummer from the band ; the whole group was there , giving an impromptu concert on tin whistles to the tired hikers sleeping on their rucksacks undaunted by the howl and shriek of the space-invader machines on the other side , a cacophony of mechanical rage that deafened him together with the thin notes of a rebel song . |
| 2 | It appeared on the evidence that he believed himself not to be liable ; but he knew that the plaintiffs thought him liable , and would sue him if he did not pay , and in order to avoid the expense and trouble of legal proceedings against himself he agreed to a compromise ; and the question is , whether a person who has given a note as a compromise of a claim honestly made on him , and which but for that compromise would have been at once brought to a legal decision , can resist the payment of the note on the ground that the original claim thus compromised might have been successfully resisted … . |
| 3 | He himself did not much value the small detached territories — Cleves , Mark , Ravensberg — which he ruled in the Rhineland . |
| 4 | It is this which he takes as the key to an understanding of contemporary society , and of culture itself . |
| 5 | There are poems to Rosa which he takes from the trash . |
| 6 | Following the Emperor 's address , Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu read a congratulatory statement on behalf of the Japanese people in which he appealed for the construction of a country which was energetic , culturally rich and dedicated to the promotion of international peace and co-operation . |
| 7 | In this chapter Rob Grunsell gives a brief outline of his approach to in-service training which he developed at the schools council and published in Finding Answers to Disruption ( Grunsell 1985 ) . |
| 8 | Unrepentant , Palmer shifted his ground to an attack on the format of the Annual Estimates of Nigeria , which he developed into a campaign for the complete decentralization of the Treasury Department . |
| 9 | This proposition forms the basis of Stenhouse 's concept of the ‘ teacher-as-researcher ’ : an idea which he developed in the context of the Humanities Curriculum Project ( HCP ) , and which has since influenced approaches to curriculum development and curriculum evaluation ( especially teacher self-evaluation ) . |
| 10 | First is the excitement of the sense of calling ; second , the passionate and painful struggles in overcoming sin which bring him into a darkness which initially is without savour or delight ; third , the experience of light and comfort in the darkness which he describes as the work of Christ illuminating the soul " with schynynges " ( 27.98r. – 345 ) ; and fourth , the full light and bliss of heaven which this light in the darkness anticipates . |
| 11 | On Thursday night — late night shopping — Nails went down to the supermarket in his anorak with the big pockets and lifted six electric plugs , four pairs of scissors and a pair of pillowcases which he sold to a friend of his father 's for three pounds . |
| 12 | Abel had his workshop on the first and second floors of the tall house and made intricate jewellery which he sold to a shop in Hatton Garden . |
| 13 | The man with the sting made his living trawling for prawns , and fishing for mero , which he sold to the holiday village cafés , for a better price than he got from the locals . |
| 14 | He had some notable furniture and possessions , most of which he sold with the house when he moved into The Milebrook . |
| 15 | The Milan court held Mr de Benedetti had profited unfairly by receiving a £20m share package in an Ambrosiano subsidiary , as well as the 2 p.c. share value in the bank which he sold at the end of his tenure . |
| 16 | Goodridge was simultaneously an active member of the BDDA , which he served on the executive , as Treasurer of the pension fund and as a Vice-chairman before being awarded a medal of honour in 1977 . |
| 17 | Gosse 's career was interrupted by the outbreak of war in 1914 , in which he served as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps . |
| 18 | After World War I ( in which he served as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps , stationed in Maidstone ) Freeman increasingly became involved in the eugenics movement , producing a lengthy work on the ills of society , Social Decay and Regeneration , in 1921 . |
| 19 | His move into intelligence came during the Second World War in which he served as a colonel and worked with Eisenhower 's Supreme Allied Headquarters . |
| 20 | After World War N , during which he served in the army with the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers , he was attached to the War Office . |
| 21 | But the books which he took from the shelves in those stolen hours in the school library were history and biography and political science . |
| 22 | In ‘ The Fall of the House of Usher ’ , Edgar Allan Poe invokes the fear of being shut in which he projects into the fear of SPEAKING IN DIFFERENT TONGUES , DIFFERENT TONES 67 shutting someone else in . |
| 23 | This novel becomes ‘ readable ’ if we accept the psychologizing interpretation that Wallas is a kind of victim of Oedipal obsessions which he projects onto the objects around him . |
| 24 | Lee , startled to see Philip , moved and the helmet which he had on the back of his head fell off on to the flagged floor . |
| 25 | He replied that it appeared that there was a trust on the coheir too to make over to Seia the quarter which he had in the gardens . |
| 26 | MacLachlan , moreover , was not averse to seeking further advantages for himself , for while acknowledging Milton 's assistance in getting him a tack of two farms in Morvern for nineteen years , which would scarcely appear to be a short lease , he complained that he had been informed that other tenants had obtained tacks of three times the length of that which he had from the Duke of Argyll , urging that he could ‘ be as usefull as any in that Countrey by introduceing a cheap method of improvement and otherwise ’ . |
| 27 | Or — a thought struck him — was it in the water from which he drank at the reading lectern ? |
| 28 | Singling out The Forest and the Fire , which he laid on the pillow ready , he left the rest in a pile on the floor . |
| 29 | Doone pondered , made up his mind , went out to his car and returned carrying a five-foot plank which he laid across the kitchen table . |
| 30 | Various depressed minions started to trickle in and just after seven-thirty , a man in a chef 's hat arrived through the doors that led to the kitchens , carrying an enormous silver tray which he laid in the centre of the table . |