Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [be] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first target tonight will be Brian Close , the former Yorkshire and England captain and now chairman of the cricket sub-committee , on which he is supported by such luminaries as Bob Appleyard , Phil Sharpe , Bryan Stott and Bob Platt , all ex-players . |
| 2 | He is obviously serious about it as he also has a 1926 3 litre Bentley which he is upgrading to 4.5 to race . |
| 3 | ‘ The right to recovery after a demand colore officii rests upon the assumption that the position occupied by the defendant creates virtual compulsion , where it conveys to the person paying , the knowledge or belief that he has no means of escape from payment strictly so called if he wishes to avert injury to or deprivation of some right to which he is entitled without such payment . |
| 4 | I would not venture to say which he is doing in this case . ’ |
| 5 | Thus , the Dundee tribunal has decided in the unreported case of Cox v Dundee Corporation ( 1974 ) that a man dismissed following a conviction in the Burgh Court for breach of the peace , for which he was sentenced to thirty days , had been treated unfairly . |
| 6 | He also contributed several important articles to the Journal of the London Topographical Society , of which he was one of the earliest members and to the council of which he was elected in 1902 . |
| 7 | In spite of his asthma and short-sightedness , Hornung was a competent club cricketer , a game for which he had a passion ; he was proud of his membership of the MCC , to which he was elected in 1907 . |
| 8 | Tony Crosland had been a don at Oxford during my undergraduate years , and then spent five years in the House of Commons , to which he was to return in 1959 . |
| 9 | Compared with the Derbyshire mill of Elias Needham to which he was moved in 1803 , this was a good mill . |
| 10 | Hillary 's valiant combat career lasted three weeks , during which he was credited with five enemy aircraft . |
| 11 | We tracked down Ranteallo in the most elegant of these structures , which he was sharing with some thirty family members , guests , and slaves . |
| 12 | Simultaneously the influence of A. W. N. Pugin [ q.v. ] drew him to the Catholic Church , into which he was received in 1846 . |
| 13 | ‘ It is a measure of the level of the people with which he was dealing in that , at a time when he thought he might be a witness in another case , he was assaulted , rendering him unconscious , and his house was the subject of an arson attack . ’ |
| 14 | But that was the first case of that absolute determination which he was to use to great effect in the later films I did with him . ’ |
| 15 | In the case of Molla Sayyid Muhammad al-Nakib ( Yavuz Celebi ) , on the other hand , Ata'i merely notes that he started off his career as a kasabat kadi , then turned to the medrese system in which he was given a 40-akce medrese and subsequently worked his way up to the Suleymaniye Darulhadis — probably by this time the premier medrese in the empire to which he was appointed in 1012/1604 : he later became kadi of Eyup and then nakibulesraf . |
| 16 | The Atlantic Ferry now figures largely in the Bennett saga in which he was joined by several of his old Imperial Airways colleagues . |
| 17 | On July 4 the dissident writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was readmitted ( after 20 years ) to the Writers ' Union , which voted to publish his book The Gulag Archipelago and to press for the return of his citizenship ( of which he was stripped in 1974 ) , an idea which the author rejected in December . |
| 18 | His enormous hands dwarfed the elegant menu which he was studying in apparent disbelief , and Peter Yeo noticed again , as Barton without rising extended one massive paw , that though the fingers were an ordinary length it was the width of the palms that made the hands so large . |
| 19 | Taking it seriously he was accepted on a degree course in Photography at Nottingham but soon found the kind of dogmatic regimentation which he was subjected to counter-productive . |
| 20 | Taking it seriously he was accepted at Nottingham but soon found the kind of dogmatic regimentation which he was subjected to counter-productive . |
| 21 | The couple was first drawn to the work of Magritte by the high regard in which he was held by another great Surrealist , Marcel Duchamp , and by Julian Levy and Alexander Iolas . |
| 22 | Meciar 's views provoked an internal party dispute in which he was accused of intimidating political rivals and of making unnecessary and unconstitutional foreign trips . |
| 23 | During the Depression Silver sold china and glass in Fifth Avenue , worked a petrol pump , and sold cigarettes wholesale ; but all this time he was collecting Walt Whitman ; he also studied for a Master 's degree in English at Boston University , which he was awarded in 1941 . |
| 24 | There is even the possibility that the knowledge evoked here may have been obtained indirectly , through some other channel than direct experience , as a speaker could utter any of the above four sentences without ever having observed what he is asserting at all . |
| 25 | Will he tell the House what he is doing about that and what discussions he is having with the Treasury ? |
| 26 | Now he understands what he is doing aged 22 . |
| 27 | Okay , Skinner talks about scientific explanation in that , so that 's what he 's addressing in that particular paper . |
| 28 | He 's speaking to it what he 's doing with that . |
| 29 | This is the moment when it comes into his mind to ask himself what he 's doing in this place ; to see the meaninglessness of his business there , and the hollowness of his enjoyments ; to lose sight suddenly of what it is in the texture of life that has ever occupied his attention and led him forward . |
| 30 | Ingard just gives him instructions , and he does what he 's told without any explanations . |