Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] he [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard Baxter was deeply shocked by this tragedy and also by the general prejudice aroused against him by this incident . |
| 2 | Philip went back to Richard 's rooms in college to wait for him on this night of undreamt-of triumph , to enjoy it with him , to talk it through . |
| 3 | When Kevin Woodford , owner and chef of Woodfords restaurant on the Isle Of Man asked viewers of ITV 's This Morning programme to write to him about any culinary problems , the letters simply flooded in . |
| 4 | The Secretary of State shall lay before both Houses of Parliament a draft of any code of practice prepared by him under this section . |
| 5 | H's purpose , however , was to punish the tenant for having given evidence ( under subpoena ) in an action brought against him by another of his tenants and it followed that the landlord was guilty of a criminal contempt of court . |
| 6 | Wandering aimlessly down one of the grim , draughty passageways of the castle , with Ranulf trailing behind him like some morose dog , Corbett almost bumped into Benstede and his strange body-servant , Aaron . |
| 7 | Although there is no example in the cases , it seems possible for an employer to appropriate the goodwill which an employee brings with him by express provision . |
| 8 | The design for Isvik was influenced to quite a marked degree by the Peterhead-type sailing vessels of the Mounties , also by a sketch made for him by that extraordinary Antarctic single-hander , David Lewis . |
| 9 | His whole life 's work twisted against him in one poisonous little rumour . |
| 10 | ‘ Any person who without reasonable excuse fails to comply with a requirement imposed on him under this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding the fifth level on the standard scale or to both . |
| 11 | When she looked back at Mick she allowed her gaze to rest on him for some seconds before she answered , ‘ Of course I know who it is . |
| 12 | The impetuous young man became infatuated with the dancer Barberoni , was summoned home from Europe , and a ‘ safe ’ marriage negotiated for him in 1749 to his first cousin Lady Elizabeth Campbell , daughter of John , second Duke of Argyll [ q.v . ] . |
| 13 | But what had made the girl propose to him in this way ? |
| 14 | There had been no need to cling to him with such ardour — no need to respond to his kiss with such wanton abandon . |
| 15 | Following a telephone conversation in late February in which Mr. expressed possible BWB interest in collaborating on a project to repair certain sections of the towpath , I had a first site meeting with him on 5th March . |
| 16 | The coroner glared at him through narrowed eyes . |
| 17 | The settlor is able to recover the tax paid by him from any trustee or person to whom the income arises under the settlement , subject to crediting any allowance or relief so obtained by the settlor . |
| 18 | The Collector found he could hardly breathe in the middle of this appalling sandwich ; a few inches from his nose the face of a dead sepoy grinned at him with sparkling teeth ; the Collector had the odd sensation that the man 's eyes were watching his efforts with amusement . |
| 19 | That gift for conveying enthusiasm survives in him at 76 , sill an active researcher and watcher who talks as warmly about current players like Matthew Maynard and Martin Speight as of the heroes of his youth . |
| 20 | He was charged with accroaching royal power and procuring the deaths of the Earl of Lancaster and other nobles , acquiring many lands that belonged to the crown , and disobeying the judgement of banishment pronounced against him in 1321 . |
| 21 | Here the paraphrase would be " how he longed to see this sunlight once before he died ! " , but the fact remains that the person designated by he in this example is felt as not yet having attained the realization of " seeing the sunlight once more " , i.e. as being before this event in time . |
| 22 | Much of his later work , achieved under the shadow of inexorably crippling and ultimately fatal illness , which he faced with the utmost fortitude , was latterly facilitated by the research fellowship conferred on him by All Souls in 1954 . |
| 23 | ( 3 ) Nothing in this section shall enable any action — ( a ) to recover , or recover the value of , any property ; or ( b ) to enforce any charge against , or set aside any transaction affecting , any property ; to be brought against the purchaser of the property or any person claiming through him in any case where the property has been purchased for valuable consideration by an innocent third party since the fraud or concealment of ( as the case may be ) the transaction in which the mistake was made took place … |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been dealing with your affairs for some considerable time , Jenna , ’ he pointed out , as if it had been a dreadful chore wished on him by some unseen and malevolent spirit . |
| 25 | His wife sat with him for thirteen hours , and he clutched her hand as he struggled for life . |
| 26 | A wild urge to cling to him like this for the rest of her life ? |
| 27 | For his performance , he wore an outfit designed for him by one of the finalists in the Lloyds Bank Fashion Challenge , and made by Paul Smith , the designer . |
| 28 | He was ashamed that Michael had heard his father-in-law speak to him like that . |
| 29 | Excellent as he was in GoodFellas , you could n't help thinking that the understated menace required for the role came to him like second nature . |
| 30 | Her own tongue moved on him in sympathetic sorcery . |