Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is the Minister seriously saying that when he drew up the disposal scheme and the scheme for professional advice he had no consultation with the Secretary of State for Transport ? |
| 2 | When Edward invited Harry to Oxford for Eights Week he informed him of his expectations from Lincoln College . |
| 3 | When he thought about that voice he felt he would like to murder her with a knife himself . |
| 4 | ‘ You know , ’ she said resentfully , ‘ when Billy was inside he was sharing a landing with some very funny men , and one day he was telling them about that pub he bought with the cellars full of Château d'Yquem not showing off or nothing , just by way of general conversation , and they said , ‘ Nice , is it , with that stuff you lot eat ? |
| 5 | Did you hear about that chap he did |
| 6 | Er what about that line he came out with ? |
| 7 | Livermore said : ‘ For 70 minutes he showed tremendous enthusiasm . |
| 8 | It has been said that if each soil conservationist stopped the movement of one grain of soil for each word he has written on the topic , the problem of soil erosion would disappear . |
| 9 | The adventurers may ask other questions of the Oracle , but the questioner must make a Fel test for each question he asks . |
| 10 | All in all , he had been departmentally punished on twenty-seven occasions , an average of once for each year he had spent in the force . |
| 11 | To encourage rich men to bring out poor settlers like this , a ‘ head right ’ system was used to give land -50 acres a head in the case of Virginia — to the landowner for each immigrant he had brought across the Atlantic . |
| 12 | With his feeling for tall stories he 's a radio natural , though . |
| 13 | I heard Ryan coming on a good wee bit behind him , but this , up that path like , I says to if that wee fella fell off that bike he 's killed . |
| 14 | A notable exception to this was the adviser responsible for multicultural education who argued that since the school did not seem to have developed an overall policy for multicultural education he could not conduct an appraisal of it . |
| 15 | In August 1920 , almost by chance , he was attached for a year to the small peacetime signal intelligence organization in London , and was then posted to Simla in India , where for eight years he performed cipher-breaking duties with remarkable success . |
| 16 | Her exhausted captain had had to hand over the wheel to Arthur and for eight days he was scarcely relieved . |
| 17 | During that year he worked with all four Silbermann brothers , including Johann Gottfried and Johann Heinrich ( 1727–99 ) , the nephews of Gottfried Silbermann . |
| 18 | He had spent less than an hour in the Dragon and during that time he had succeeded in needling at least four men . |
| 19 | During that time he took his decision about Marler : to continue keeping an eye on him . |
| 20 | During that time he sought inspiration and enrichment of the texture of the story in the surrounding countryside , in the paintings of Turner ( ‘ What he paints chiefly is light as modified by objects ’ ) and Romney ( ‘ I am struck by the red glow of [ his ] backgrounds , and his red flesh shades ’ ) , in the faces of women he met at dinner parties or saw by chance in a passing omnibus . |
| 21 | It took Maidstone four hours to decide what to do and during that time he drank only coffee . |
| 22 | By the time Johnny moved back to Brighton he had spent over 20 years at Selhurst Park and during that time he had made an invaluable contribution to Palace 's progress both on and off the field , for which he will long be remembered with gratitude . |
| 23 | He had lived outwith Scotland for only 5 years but during that time he had travelled further by land and had seen a greater number of interesting places than most people do in a lifetime . |
| 24 | During that time he made important progress in a number of directions . |
| 25 | During that time he proved to be a wonderful companion . |
| 26 | During that time he was ordered by gang members to shave off his beard to change his appearance and was again threatened that his family would be harmed if he did not do as he was told . |
| 27 | During that time he never finished lower than 24th on the official Order of Merit and was a regular member of Europe 's Ryder Cup side . |
| 28 | During that time he may mate with other females , and add the eggs to his collection . |
| 29 | During that time he also rode for Ferguson when he rode Lacken Beau for the Ballymena trainer at Downpatrick . |
| 30 | He had spent nearly all of his forty-eight years in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist , and during that time he had witnessed literally thousands of encounters with people from the Other Side . |