Example sentences of "[pron] he [vb past] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 He opted for the latter route and took up the gauntlet he saw set before him by steeling himself for a career as a boxer , a career in which he distinguished himself as a man of immense resolve and purposefulness .
2 The point is that Knighton , for all the ludicrous exhibitionism with which he announced himself to the Stretford End , decided to withdraw , despite evidence that he could indeed finance the original deal .
3 Meredith 's senses were alerted to his hard , firm male body , the command with which he manoeuvred them around the square , the pressure of his fingers against her supple spine .
4 It is evident that Ricardou had established a new doxa of reflexivity from which no deviations could be permitted , such was the extent to which he saw himself as the custodian of a radical modernity .
5 No wonder Edward , in order to protect suitors from ecclesiastical censures or reprisals , made available a new form of the writ which was issued ‘ on behalf of many ’ — ex relatu plurium — in which he substituted himself for the unnamed petitioner or petitioners ; this form of the writ enjoyed wider popularity after the Council of Reading .
6 This may have contributed to the vigour with which he immersed himself in the growing student unrest that was a feature if the political upheavals of the time .
7 The distinctive sloping pantile roof of the Chapel of Reconciliation came into view and soon we were descending stiffly from the coaches and joyfully into church to receive a special word of welcome from our Bishop , in which he reminded us of the purpose of a pilgrimage , together with our special intentions .
8 The conduct of the ministers was provocative , but Taylor 's treatment of them was more severe than that of his Archbishop , John Bramhall , who when faced with the same situation devised a form of letters , acceptable to the Presbyterians , by which he supplied them with the qualifications which they lacked , so that they were able to retain their livings .
9 Before Ronny Jordan was born , his mother 's landlord had a dream in which he pictured her beside a guitar .
10 Nonetheless , the main thrust of Kandel 's findings and the theoretical framework within which he set them during the 1970s and 1980s have until recently scarcely been challenged .
11 The dropping of these conditions may have allowed my Great-grandfather to qualify , as by all I have heard about him he had none of the virtues which were needed to gain entry .
12 In Peart , the more authoritative case , the accused received a car from the victim when he had told him he wanted it for a certain journey .
13 ‘ Billy told me he kissed you in the rose gardens , ’ Annie said smiling .
14 Because he he told me about the chap who was his agent .
15 So he got the barn and he he had it in a peedie pail you see and he was on his road home and he was coming by this that hillock at Yensetter there .
16 and he he put them in the in the bank and when he finished , when he was he used to go for the money for for for some money
17 And just the same as when Jesus was here on earth he was in one place , he he confined himself to a body .
18 ‘ He said that he could n't pay me because he had to maintain his cash flow for the London opening , but what he would do was to let me regard what he owed me as a stake in the show . ’
19 You know what he told me on the way home ?
20 This is what he told me about the Batty sale .
21 Only Ember cared enough to come and talk to her ; from what he told her of the others , both the towered and the plain , she was glad .
22 Well he 's alright like , but er phoned us yesterday , I wrote it down what he told us in the book , in there , cos it 's confidential between him and the Co-op , but
23 His own company had been paid his freelance fee by the BBC and he was taxed on what he paid himself as a salary from the company 's turnover .
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