Example sentences of "he [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Industry bargaining was also preferable to employers in Italy since it allowed their associations to maintain a tight control on bargaining activities whilst at the same time freeing the individual employer from direct impact with the union — yet giving him ample leeway to influence his employees from outside union channels ( Treu , 1981 ) . |
| 2 | These Imperial durbars were Inayat Khan 's favourite material , giving him ample occasion to tug his forelock and fill the pages of the Shah Jehan Nama with paeans to the generosity of his Imperial paymaster . |
| 3 | The debtor remains in a sense owner ; he has a new sort of equitable ownership , ‘ an equity of redemption ’ , which he is only to lose after the court has given him ample opportunity to repay , and it becomes plain to the court that he can not or will not pay . |
| 4 | With luck Vic and Emily should be gone several hours , giving him ample time to search for evidence and be back at the white house long before they returned . |
| 5 | It gave him ample time to check the house . |
| 6 | This gave him ample opportunities to put the British case . |
| 7 | It was a strange place and it gave him strange ideas ; he was oddly aware of those who had played , and loved and quarrelled there . |
| 8 | He took with him strange plants and birds to show the King and Queen . |
| 9 | Most damaging to the action man myth of JFK was his serious adrenaline disorder , Addison 's disease , which gave him acute back pain . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've had a little help from Barry Humphries in this , and I hope I 've paid him due credit , thought he did start that nasty rumour that he was me or I was him . |
| 11 | Generally in relation to the mortgage of movables , it recommended a simpler scheme , together ‘ with power to the lender to sell off the security in the event of the borrower failing to repay , after giving him due notice ’ . |
| 12 | She handed him walnut-coloured Nescafé . |
| 13 | An editor will appreciate it if you supply him regularly with information about the company , giving him advance warning of changes and additions to the product range , the factory or indeed any aspect of the company 's activities . |
| 14 | I apoligise for putting a long list of questions to the Minister , but I gave him advance notice and I hope that he will answer most of them . |
| 15 | Next door to you was Dr Wetherby , and beyond him Norman Pinder . |
| 16 | Soon after Aoun entered the French embassy on Oct. 13 France granted him political asylum . |
| 17 | During his tour the French government , on Oct. 30 , officially reiterated its recognition of him as Haiti 's President and offered him political asylum . |
| 18 | The only thing he seems to be good at is denigrating Labour , the party that brought him political prominence . |
| 19 | Yet this restatement of his views won him political support from Liberals who looked askance at this quasi-nationalization programme . |
| 20 | This one act earned him unfailing hatred and opposition . |
| 21 | Wilson 's pace brought him triple joy , the individual prize , victory over team-mate and newly-crowned cross-country champion Dermot Donnelly in second place , and success for Striders in a fascinating team battle . |
| 22 | ‘ The grounds for making action by a building society or associated body subject to investigation under the scheme must be that the action constitutes — ( a ) in the case of a building society , a breach of the society 's obligations under this Act , the rules or any other contract , or ( b ) in the case of an associated body , a breach of the associated body 's obligations under its rules ( if any ) or any contract , or ( c ) unfair treatment , or ( d ) maladministration , in relation to the complainant and has caused him pecuniary loss or expense or inconvenience . |
| 23 | The ombudsman shall ( in accordance with and subject to the following clauses of this scheme ) investigate any complaint received by him from an individual if : — ( a ) the complaint relates to action taken in the United Kingdom by a building society or a body associated with it ; ( b ) at the time that the complaint is received by the ombudsman , the building society or ( as the case may be ) associated body is a participant in the scheme ; ( c ) the action was taken in relation to one of the activities specified in clause 17 ; ( d ) the grounds of the complaint are included in the grounds specified in clause 18 ; and ( e ) the complainant alleges that the action has caused him pecuniary loss , expense or inconvenience . ’ |
| 24 | Somewhat reluctantly he lifted the phone , and asked the operator to get him Assistant Commissioner Seddon at New Scotland Yard . |
| 25 | Shortly after his return Gresley appointed him assistant carriage and wagon superintendent , in which capacity he introduced numerous innovations including modernized train interiors ; a completely articulated five-coach train set carried on only six bogies , in whose kitchen electric cooking was pioneered ; and also twin articulated sleeping cars . |
| 26 | A fanaticism for Romeo Gigli suggests he 's going to carry on doing things right ; Browns thinks so too and this month the shop is giving him prestigious South Molton Street window space . |
| 27 | This will include : ( i ) the mother ; ( ii ) the father if he was married to the mother when the child was born ; ( iii ) the father , if he was not married to the child 's mother when the child was born but he has since married her or now has a residence order , a court order which gives him parental responsibility or a formal parental responsibility agreement made with the mother in accordance with s4(2) of the Act ; ( iv ) a guardian of the child which in this context means a testamentary guardian appointed in accordance with s5 of the Act ; ( v ) anyone who holds a custody or residence order relating to the child ; ( vi ) a local authority which has a care order in respect of the child ; ( vii ) anyone who has been granted an emergency protection order ; ( viii ) in the case of an adopted child , the adopters in place of the natural parents . |
| 28 | Terry Wogan became so absorbed with her that he ran the interview into the closing music , leaving him scant time to promote his next programme — very unusual . |
| 29 | Then he waited as one of the two Han brought him anti-static slippers while the other combed and plaited his hair . |
| 30 | She looks towards Herakles , right hand out , originally with a spear to direct him and perhaps lend him divine power as he thrusts with a crowbar to open a way for the Alpheus to flood the stables . |