Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun pl] he " in BNC.

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1 He remarked that Royal Jubilees were unlucky for him : at the Georgian celebrations he had been injured by stone throwing .
2 But what Sheriff Irvine Smith has , with compelling cause shown , denied us in his Introduction he has amply redeemed in the justiciary cases he has placed before us and in his commentary thereon .
3 Sergeant Dubrulle , the Jesuit priest , was revolted above all by the hideous indignities he had seen TNT perpetrate upon the bodies God had created .
4 In spite of the strong antagonisms he had aroused , he had been a key figure in the religious and political reorientation of Evangelicalism and in its forging of an alliance with the resurgent Conservative party around the defence of the Protestant Established Church .
5 Still behind her , Luke had bent his head and had been murmuring his taunts close to one ear , while the strong arms he had bound about her waist were tightening securely , making her captivity a torment .
6 He had also , as soon as the ‘ No Smoking ’ sign was illuminated , lit up one of the strong cigarettes he used .
7 As ever , it would be the climax ; this time the climax of one of the finest performances he had ever witnessed .
8 The truth is that while batting in the indoor nets he was struck on the toe by a ball from paceman Chris Lewis and an X-ray over the weekend revealed he had indeed suffered a cracked bone .
9 Gazzer 's mind was working desperately , selecting , then rejecting all of the possible ways he could respond to this surprise attack .
10 The Army brought an investigation into McCarthy and the blackmailing pressures he had put on it .
11 Man himself has grown considerably taller during the quarter-million years he has been on Earth .
12 Of all the below-the-line babies he has delivered into the AMV fold , it is The Electronic Studio that Baulk heralds as having the most potential for growth and innovation .
13 Concluding the three-part feature on Spencer Flack and his aircraft , with a look at the classic warbirds he has owned , the Mustang , Spitfire and the troublesome Sea Furies .
14 For both the 1654 and the 1659 Commons he kept a sort of diary .
15 Quite sharp enough to know all about dodging income tax on the odd jobs he does in his spare time .
16 Minton asked on arriving , proving this revelation with the thousand-franc notes he produced and which enabled his young friends each in turn to take Mimi or Fifi upstairs , Hunt having previously thought that these girls , whom they drew and took dancing , were secretaries .
17 With only one defeat in their last seven games , Sefton will be hoping that Robin Earwaker collects the eleven points he needs to top the century mark this season .
18 Unix now provides the user with access based upon the least privileges he or she requires to carry out their tasks .
19 The lower fees he paid , he said , were more than enough to cover these extra costs .
20 Mr Stanforth was not entirely what she had expected , but neither , she deduced from the covert glances he was using upon her like measuring instruments , was she quite matching up to his preconceived picture of her .
21 One of his men had been foolish enough to point out that the Company Captain was unlikely to want to use the cooker and that there had n't been anybody in that cell in all the eight years he 'd been there .
22 The initiative in convening meetings at intervals of every two or three months was taken by David Faulkner while an Under-Secretary at the Prison Department in 1981 , and continued during the eight years he was the Deputy Under-Secretary of State in charge of the Criminal and Statistical Departments and the Research and Planning Unit at the Home Office from 1982–90 .
23 Officially it remains in force , but an attack in the official press suggests hard-line ideologues want to criticise not only Mr Zhao but also the economic policies he helped to implement .
24 But Baldwin weathered these political storms with some adroitness and found that the economic policies he favoured emerged , almost naturally , out of the collapse of the second Labour government in August 1931 .
25 Hence the unwillingness of the senior ( and supposedly retired ) leader , Mr Deng Xiaoping , to pursue the economic reforms he began in 1978 to their logical conclusion in a free market .
26 Last month he reversed the economic reforms he had just introduced and condemned the IMF as ‘ dictatorial ’ , its policies ‘ suicidal ’ .
27 Meanwhile , Anderson says of the president , ‘ Over the years he made all the key decisions on the economic strategies he finally embraced .
28 It is essential therefore , that you identify and appreciate the historian 's viewpoint , follow the individual steps in his arguments and pinpoint the specific reasons he offers for his views .
29 In this multi-channelled world , Mr Myhrvold argues , the challenge will be not just to supply information but to make it easy for the user to pick out the specific bits he wants .
30 From then on Endill was never again scared by the strange footsteps he had heard for years in the middle of the night .
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