Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] [noun pl] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told John Colville , one of the junior private secretaries he inherited from Churchill , ‘ that in his most optimistic dreams he had reckoned that there might , with luck , be a Conservative majority of only some forty seats ’ . |
| 2 | Sharir had served in the Cabinet from 1981 to 1988 , and according to Israeli political commentators he nursed a grudge against Shamir for not including him in his last Cabinet . |
| 3 | Mr Kinnock has to be protected from questions because he is likely to give the wrong answers , even about specific Labour policies he is supposed to know by heart . |
| 4 | With his high cultural ideals he had , in any case , strong and growing suspicions about the worth of a Germany united under Prussian domination and dedicated to narrow military and materialistic goals . |
| 5 | Where the applicant has made repeated unsuccessful requests he may wish to know why he is not obtaining the licence . |
| 6 | On the old coal-burning boats he ended up , shovellin' coal into red-hot boilers . |
| 7 | By later blackboard-jungle classroom-rebel standards he would have appeared as disciplined as a fearful nun . |
| 8 | Norman had n't brought any rockboots , and intended climbing in the old green trainers he was wearing . |
| 9 | Anyway he 's clever enough to hoodwink those two charming young ladies he has with him . |
| 10 | With his usual lightning-swift reactions he took advantage of the moment to pull her from the bed , and as she stumbled against him , his arms tightened about her involuntarily . |
| 11 | Pietro had finally agreed to Zen 's presence , on condition that there was no contact until the pay-off actually began , so during the intervening forty-eight hours he had had nothing to do with the case beyond having the ransom money photographed to record the serial numbers and finalizing the arrangements for collecting Ruggiero when he was released . |
| 12 | John Donne may have been a great frequenter of plays , but the catalogue of his books he produced in the early seventeenth century reveals no dramatist among the many contemporary English writers he assembled . |
| 13 | Knew that she had warmed to him , that she wanted to ease his grief , and for a dangerous few seconds he thought he would cry . |
| 14 | After countless such visits he was afraid to look into the bowl in case something of himself had been lost in his body 's writhing struggles to empty itself . |
| 15 | He looked scared , not so much , Owen judged , because he was in the hands of the police but rather because he was in different surroundings from those he was used to , the modern , built-up , Europeanized part of the city and not the warren of tiny mediaeval streets he normally inhabited . |
| 16 | Between his nutcracker lips was one of the thin twisted little cigarettes he made himself . |
| 17 | Entering Forest School , Walthamstow , Essex , in October 1895 , in the following five years he received prizes for mathematics , chemistry , and form work . |
| 18 | In the following twenty years he was responsible for the design and building of many new types of main-line and suburban passenger and freight locomotives of large dimensions , which gave excellent service and whose elegance and symmetry of outline were greatly admired . |
| 19 | Over the following four years he cultivated the nomadic way of life which , with the exception of the war years , was to be his until he died : he drifted restlessly in southern Europe and North Africa — and when in London was seen at the theatre , the Ballets Russes , the Café Royal , and at the bohemian restaurant , La Tour Eiffel . |
| 20 | Like Walt Whitman , who became a wound dresser in the American Civil War in order to draw closer to the simple young soldiers he adored and whom he wished to tend , Vincent sought to draw nearer to Christ . |
| 21 | He rang me the next day , was very enthusiastic , but apologised that for the following two years he was only doing German opera — but that he would remember me ! |
| 22 | In the following two seasons he became the first player to win the Harry Sunderland Award twice for his performances in the Premiership Final victories over Hull and Bradford Northern . |
| 23 | Arthritis sufferer Betty , 63 , said the special parking spaces were of no use , while Jim , 63 , said his hip replacement meant the extra 200 yards he would have to push his wife would be hard work . |
| 24 | In the danger of AIDS and the risks of promiscuous sexual encounters he perceives an old excitement and thrill . |
| 25 | ‘ He crumbled over those two little old ladies he met in Brighton , and did n't being to take the chance that had been offered to him . |
| 26 | In Kee 's fine dark eyes he had read a call for help . |
| 27 | Against the Australian Imperial Forces he played what Wisden called ‘ the innings of his life ’ . |
| 28 | For a few moments she stood watching him as with quick little movements he fed himself , his sharp eyes darting suspiciously from side to side . |
| 29 | For the previous three years he had been busy transcribing the forgotten and unpublished portions of the Shah Jehan Nama , the court chronicle of Shah Jehan . |
| 30 | Blanche did not respond like the other ambitious young officers he knew . |