Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His own critique of Lawrence leads to his climactic denunciation of his own generation when he turns himself prophet of the most orthodox sort , quoting a long passage from Ezekiel also used in The Waste Land . |
| 2 | A FEW DAYS after the master had forbidden Cathy to visit Linton , he asked my opinion of the boy . |
| 3 | I said , " and I remember the day he got his Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians . |
| 4 | Part of the proceeds of a Credit is transferred to a second beneficiary ( or to more than one second beneficiary ) who presents his documents to the advising bank whereupon the first beneficiary substitutes his invoices and claims a larger amount thus ensuring he receives his share of the proceeds . |
| 5 | The Italian showman ( left ) will be roared on this weekend by a huge home crowd in the northern Italian resort as he launches his defence of the giant slalom and slalom titles he won with ease last year . |
| 6 | He accuses her of changing her story ; he challenges her transcript of the interview , asks about an apparent change in her typewriter typeface , about her practice of reusing tapes . |
| 7 | He was later promoted to depute director and within six years of his return , he found himself director of the newly-created Lothian Regional Council 's Education Department . |
| 8 | He holds his translation of the laibon 's monologue . |
| 9 | And he concludes his discussion of the concept of the ‘ nation ’ by saying : |
| 10 | Even Colin MacInnes remains convinced that music-hall was ‘ an act of working-class self assertion ’ although he concludes his analysis of the music-hall songs with a phrase that should set film historians thinking , for he sees them as a ‘ sort of bastard folk song of an industrial-commercial-imperial age ’ . |
| 11 | He promised us photos of the bairn because I said that was the condition for signing , and I got one and that was that . |
| 12 | How , then , might he describe his view of the game ? |
| 13 | Adorno did not write a history of music , nor did he describe his picture of the music-historical field in any great detail . |
| 14 | He transferred his observations of the commercialization of German ‘ light ’ music to the United States and found the trends confirmed and amplified in the mainstream music-industry production of the 1930s and 1940s ; indeed , he seems to have seen American popular music simply as a historical continuation of these trends , the line running from European operetta , revue and beer hall schmaltz to Tin Pan Alley , Broadway and Hollywood . |
| 15 | Having escaped from detention with several of his supporters , he proclaimed himself commander-in-chief of the Kaba camp and demanded the release of other officers arrested after the May 27 incident . |
| 16 | Tersely , he recalled his experiences of the past few hours . |
| 17 | He put the finishing touches to his long-interrupted Cur Deus Homo , and he prepared his defence of the Latin doctrine of the Procession of the Holy Spirit . |
| 18 | Wealth was , however , not the only factor discussed by Veblen , and it is of particular interest that he ends his account of the leisure class with a chapter on ‘ The higher learning as an expression of pecuniary culture ’ , and with an emphasis on Classics as the key at that time to the concept of high culture . |
| 19 | She relates her ‘ dream ’ to Jip and he confirms her interpretation of the episode , for in their realist world , ‘ only dreams mix real and fantasy items ’ ( 139 ) . |
| 20 | Finally he showed us examples of the work being done by Christians and others fighting AIDS and HIV in communities in Sao Paulo on the East coast . |
| 21 | If the term ‘ Abstract Expressionist ’ means anything verifiable , it means painterliness : loose , rapid handling , or the look of it ; masses that blot and fuse instead of shapes that stay distinct ; large , conspicuous rhythms ; broken color ; uneven saturations or densities of paint ; exhibited brush , knife , finger or rag marks — in short a constellation of physical features like those defined by Wölflinn when he extracted his notion of the Malerische from Baroque art . |
| 22 | Wexford had amiable , sometimes distinctly fond feelings for his subordinate , but occasionally Burden made him impatient , especially when he instituted himself keeper of the chief inspector 's conscience . |
| 23 | But it 's Berwick that intrigues Owen , ever since he discovered which side of the border it lay . |
| 24 | Realising that Macleod had perceived him clearly , Boswell introduces a short apologia pro vita sua , ‘ a short defence of that propensity in my disposition ’ , in which he justifies his pursuit of the great and famous as ‘ nothing more than an eagerness to share the society of men distinguished either by their rank or talents ’ , and calls it a search for knowledge . |
| 25 | In his manifest ascendancy over millions of Indians , he challenged their monopoly of the force of personality . |
| 26 | He loved his tales of the ‘ queens ’ — he said that one of his favourite occupations was sitting on a park bench , watching them , all of whom , in the parlance of the active homosexual , had to be ‘ she ’ and ‘ her ’ . |
| 27 | By extrapolating broad social trends such as the long-run shift in industrialised societies from employment in agriculture and manufacturing to employment in service industries he paints his picture of the future where all our material needs are catered for by 10 per cent of the labour force , and the remainder are employed in the service sector , many of them in education and subsidised by the government . |
| 28 | He mentions his presidency of the Student Council , and his chairmanship of ‘ Student Productions ’ ; as well as an interest in debating ‘ current events ’ . |
| 29 | On 4 December he took his leave of the observers from other Churches in a prayer service which scandalized a number of the bishops because it breached the old rules against communicatio in sacris . |
| 30 | He took his account of the little balance as well as some research on centres of gravity and travelled to Rome to impress a couple of eminent intellectuals , and he succeeded , being appointed professor of mathematics at Pisa when he was 25 , though he had never had a university degree . |