Example sentences of "for the [adj] [noun sg] [subord] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | M. Lévy gave me a third more for the second vase than he had given Jean-Claude for the first one . |
| 2 | ‘ During the day I only paint when he 's asleep , and sometimes for the extra hour if he 's happy playing beside me . |
| 3 | To ask the Minister for the Civil Service when he last met representatives of civil service unions to discuss morale and recognition . |
| 4 | To ask the Minister for the Civil Service when he last met representatives of the civil service unions to discuss the operation of executive agencies . |
| 5 | To ask the Minister for the Civil Service if he will introduce arrangements so that each Department of State has co-equal male and female permanent secretaries . |
| 6 | To ask the Minister for the Civil Service if he will make a statement on the ’ next steps ’ programme . |
| 7 | To ask the Minister for the Civil Service if he will make a statement on progress in increasing the number of women registered with the public appointments unit . |
| 8 | To ask the Minister for the Civil Service if he will make a progress report on the Civil Service college . |
| 9 | A rabbit would surface and immediately make a bolt for the closest hole when he sensed the hawk . |
| 10 | ( a ) Education. : A clear idea of exactly what coronary artery disease means is most important for the coronary patient if he is to comply in the long term with the advice that he is given , and understand what has happened to him . |
| 11 | But this would have been to start from the visible , and the whole tabernacle exists as the necessary " wrapping " for the invisible God when he comes down to be with his people . |
| 12 | A former British and European light-welterweight champion , Barrett has now asked the British Boxing Board of Control to name him as challenger to Gary Jacobs for the British welterweight championship and Ludovic Proto for the European title before he considers a second world title . |
| 13 | Again , he was teaching in London for the first time although he had taught before : |
| 14 | For the first time since he became leader , he is in the position to set the political agenda . |
| 15 | More immediately delightful , she saw Nelson Mandela , an intimate friend of her youth , for the first time since he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1964 . |
| 16 | For the first time since he was a professor at Cambridge , he began to hope , though with modesty , that he might be chosen for the work . |
| 17 | Returning to Moscow at the age of 52 , for the first time since he left to live in London 26 years ago , Ashkenazy said : ‘ In my modest way , I thought I could endorse what 's happening in my country . ’ |
| 18 | Tug opened his mouth automatically , but for the first time since he had been there , he let the words go unsaid . |
| 19 | She turned to look into Gazzer 's face , concentrating her attention on him for the first time since he had climbed up to sit beside her in the sand dunes . |
| 20 | Everyone , I am sure , will have been delighted to see Sandy Lyle making the cut for the first time since he won in 1988 . |
| 21 | She came last to Lachlan , and for the first time since he had startled her raised her head to look him in the face . |
| 22 | Allen spoke for the first time since he had joined them . |
| 23 | The silver-framed photograph of Philippe Chaumont had appeared for the first time since he had known Chantal . |
| 24 | On Saturday I sat there watching his team lose at home to Chelsea and listening to an Australian Evertonian who was back at Goodison for the first time since he emigrated in 1985 . |
| 25 | Happy ‘ I 'm happy now , really , for the first time since he died . |
| 26 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied softly then looked at him for the first time since he had sat down . |
| 27 | He noticed too that for the first time since he had arrived at the Cages there was a total silence , as if all the eagles , and all the imprisoned creatures thereabout had instinctively understood that this old eagle 's troubled painful words marked an end to a terrible life ; and perhaps in some strange way the beginning of something none dared hope might come to pass . |
| 28 | So when it seemed the conversation was nearly over and , for the first time since he had known her , she appeared to have called for no reason , he was almost relieved to hear her ask , ‘ Now then , David , have you heard from him ? ’ |
| 29 | Mach looked up again , smiling for the first time since he had entered the room . |
| 30 | Last night , for the first time since he had married Fei Yen , he had summoned a woman to his bed — one of the serving girls from the kitchens — purging himself of the need that had raged in his blood like a poison . |