Example sentences of "the [noun] he [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first time in over forty years someone had humbled him on the board he considered his own . |
| 2 | In the Preface he resituated his earlier formulations as follows : |
| 3 | Even on the field he had his own personal trademark — flapping shirt sleeves and long , baggy shorts , which served both as a landmark for his colleagues and to help keep out the cold he felt so badly . |
| 4 | In the diver-picture he shows himself ready to adumbrate the idea of a spatial setting , but he is far more cautious and conventional than his Etruscan predecessor . |
| 5 | In the process he proved himself one of the sport 's great survivors . |
| 6 | In the process he proved himself one of the sport 's great survivors . |
| 7 | Flowers looked a figure of total confidence from the moment he made his first save from Brazilian skipper Rai . |
| 8 | Sharpe tried to draw his own sword , but the moment he took his right hand off the reins he almost fell and the mare immediately tried to check . |
| 9 | Was there no end to the horrors he thought her capable of ? |
| 10 | I treasure the photographs I took of Jack , and following its refurbishment the instrument sounds as good as the day he fashioned it all those years ago — a credit to the man and fitting epitaph to his expertise . |
| 11 | The former striker played under several big-name managers from the day he made his First Division debut as a raw teenager . |
| 12 | About his time with the Angels , about the day he met his old lady , about tattoos . |
| 13 | In the Adagio he sustains his slow tempo with a classical poise while never allowing us to forget , in his cutting definition of the recurrent accompanying triplet motif , the undertones beneath its major-key calm . |
| 14 | In two days we get everything we want and for the rest of the week he has his Christian customers . |
| 15 | By displaying a map of the area he made it easy to understand his talk and he emphasised the enormous size of Brazil . |
| 16 | In the blue light of the morning he breathed his last . |
| 17 | And if he decides to be a member of the Government he resigns his parliamentary seat and his replacement takes over without the need for a by-election . |
| 18 | Driving home from the theatre he pondered his next move . |
| 19 | When he replaced the receiver he regarded his subordinate for a moment and then smiled . |
| 20 | In Ego Dormio he explains to the Sister that as she grows in her love of Christ , she will find nothing matters to her but this love and the sin of man which disfigures it , and that all this is focused by thinking on the Passion of Christ : Although in The Form he makes it clear to Margaret that it is difficult to be too prescriptive about meditation , since God will put the kind of thoughts into her heart that are right for her , he does say in Emendatio Vitae that beginners in spiritual life may find the words of others helpful ( 8.120.31 – 2 ) and on occasions he himself wrote meditations on the Passion which embody his understanding of the catalysis they are designed to help . |
| 21 | When he came off the line he smiled his first genuine smile in Edward 's presence . |
| 22 | In the summer he made his last will , and assembled a vast army to take Jerusalem from the great Saracen leader Saladin . |
| 23 | In the end he does it all and more . |
| 24 | In the end he achieved his last object first . |
| 25 | Boy thought about this reaction to the film all day , but in the end he found it unsatisfactory , both as a form of interpretation and as a form of enjoyment . |
| 26 | Don has cleared up the way he diddled his income-tax returns . |
| 27 | He had not been one of the late Stalin 's critics , but I liked the way he sang his large repertoire of Scottish folksongs and I heeded him when he denounced Butch and Sundance . |
| 28 | No doubt there were many contributory external or psychological factors in what was happening to the way he perceived his own personality . |
| 29 | I liked the way he used his entire body . |
| 30 | The way he wears you down , the way he bleeds you white — if his name were Julian Barnes , he would have long been known as the Glacier . |