Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] he [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gauzlin rode there , and when Walter threatened to kill any monk whom he found on the land , Gauzlin replied that he had a plentiful supply of confessors at Fleury . |
| 2 | The discontinuity with religion which he saw as the dilemma of modern art he takes for granted , and even a cursory knowledge of twentieth-century art confirms this . |
| 3 | Weber was impressed with the development and accomplishments of bureaucracy , and especially with the role of technical knowledge in bureaucratic administration which he regarded as the primary source of the superiority of bureaucracy as an organisation . |
| 4 | From such ideas he formed dances which did away with pointes but retained much of the classical footwork which he co-ordinated with the less familiar action of the arms and hands . |
| 5 | A humiliating defeat which he suffered at the hands of Lord Peyton in the house of Lords , has concentrated John Macgregor 's mind . |
| 6 | As we have seen , it was not just the anthropology which he read at the time of composition which played its part in the great works of the early 1920s . |
| 7 | He owned a motor launch named Splash which he lost to the Navy in the war . |
| 8 | In a broadcast talk which he gave in the spring of 1941 , " Towards a Christian Britain " , he talked about the sacrifices which would be necessary to bring about such a national conversion , and the need for Christian " prophets " who would alter the social consciousness of the people . |
| 9 | This culminated in an interview which he gave to the Illustrated India Weekly in which he criticized Prime Minister V. P. Singh as " weak " and repeated allegations of corruption against two other Cabinet ministers , Arun Nehru and Arif Mohammed Khan . |
| 10 | I presume that the hon. Gentleman thought it right to return to the matter in the House having notably failed to achieve the result for which he hoped by an overheated press release to the same effect which he issued at the end of last week . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The writer 's work is merely a kind of optical instrument which he offers to the reader to enable him to discern what , without this book , he would perhaps never have perceived in himself . |
| 13 | He was also a superb phonetician , and a master of mimicry , a technique which he used to the full as a raconteur . |
| 14 | Matilda 's father had a fine crop of black hair which he parted in the middle and of which he was exceedingly proud . |
| 15 | In the letter of resignation which he conveyed to the Constitutional Council on Jan. 11 , Chadli revealed that he had dissolved ( on Jan. 4 as it later transpired ) by presidential decree the National Popular Assembly . |
| 16 | We saw his glory , the glory which he received as the Father 's only Son . |
| 17 | He took with him a recording of the female whales at play which he made off the Azores as part of his post-graduate efforts to analyse sperm whale sounds . |
| 18 | Billy goes out shooting every day but does not get much as his only weapons are a tennis bat and empty cartridge case which he hits at the birds . |
| 19 | Billy Arjan Singh ( left ) takes a walk in the jungle with Tara , the tigress whom he returned to the wild . |
| 20 | Taylor was not only himself firm with Dissenters , but in a sermon which he preached before the Irish Parliament in 1661 he urged it not to have too much respect for tender consciences . |
| 21 | Later we were to have several talks , but when I first arrived sick and ill and my GP went through the diagnosis , his greatest concern was to get me into the hands of a good specialist which he did with the utmost speed . |
| 22 | He got up and went across to a bureau in the corner furthest from the fire , returning a moment later with a folder which he handed to the T'ang . |
| 23 | She was also discovering that there was more to Sean O'Farrell than the frivolous charm which he presented to the world . |
| 24 | But that wedding evidently did not take place , and in December 1753 it was Ann Bowden whom he rushed to the altar in Exeter , his bride being already heavily pregnant with the first of their many offspring . |
| 25 | His goal was to discover a way of reconciling mechanism and science with the harmony which he perceived in the natural world , and with a life of individual creative freedom . |
| 26 | In an earlier meeting with political leaders ( including opposition figures ) , Rodríguez had requested support for land reform which he described as the country 's most pressing problem , but he insisted on respect for private property rights , as well as the squatters ' vacation of the occupied land , before such reforms could be implemented . |
| 27 | He returned to public life in 1989 during the " velvet revolution " and was elected Speaker of the federal parliament in December 1989 , a post which he held until the June 1992 elections , which he contested as the leading candidate of the small Social Democratic Party in Slovakia [ see p. 38944 ] . |
| 28 | By the time these cases were heard Mettingham had replaced the disgraced Thomas de Weyland [ q.v. ] as chief justice of the Common Bench , a post which he held from the beginning of 1290 until the time of his death . |
| 29 | Barthelsson was over the line at the start , put in his 720° turn and still beat Österlund to the first mark , a lead which he held until the end . |
| 30 | He referred specifically to the point that this concrete path was only " " seven feet long " " , and it seems to me that on the evidence he was entitled to come to the conclusion which he reached on the question of fact , i.e. that in all the circumstances the steps formed part of the building . " |