Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having tried unsuccessfully to reach him through his office — he edits a weekly newspaper for veterans of the wartime resistance — I decided finally to drive out to the village of Roztoky where he spends much of his time . |
| 2 | Why has the image of farming gone from one where the farmer was respected as the provider of food for the nation to one where he gets enormous subsidies to produce food mountains and is a burden on the taxpayer ? |
| 3 | Where he becomes ridiculous is in his desperate ambition to be part of the working class , striking a rather pathetic figure as he sits in his ministerial office with his trade union banner behind his head . |
| 4 | His childhood was spent in Cranleigh , and he was educated at Edgeborough School , Guildford , where he revealed precocious talents as artist , poet , and sportsman , and at Christ 's Hospital , London . |
| 5 | A graduate of Clare College , Cambridge , where he read mechanical sciences , he joined BNFL at Sellafield in 1981 . |
| 6 | At its farthest point , that spot where he hovered high in the air before the rope changed direction , he knew that he was suspended sixty feet above Mucky Beck and the perimeter wall . |
| 7 | In 1964 he founded the Glynn Research Laboratories , where he directed biochemical research until 1986 . |
| 8 | Scott Cunningham has developed the practice of magical aromatherapy , where he uses these natural aromas for effects such as stimulation of the mind , protection , purification and psychic awareness , thereby attaining what might be called magical states of consciousness . |
| 9 | He was later Head of the Unemployment Benefit Service , which he managed with great skill , and where he made many friends . |
| 10 | A dreadful second shot from the perfect position in the middle of the 10th fairway had to be retrieved with a deft bunker shot ; he was deep in the trees at the 11th , where he took five , and bunkered at the 12th , though again at no cost to him . |
| 11 | The evening meal had been re-scheduled for 8.30 p.m. ; and with time to spare , after throwing his own large hold-all on to the counterpane of his single bed , Ashenden joined a few of the other tourists in the Residents ' Lounge , where he took some sheets of the hotel 's own note-paper , and began to write a letter . |
| 12 | A possible chance of an eagle , or certainly a birdie , went begging at the 13th , where he took three to get down from nowhere but from then on he became a different player . |
| 13 | He recorded a visit of several days to Thorndon , Lord Petre 's estate , where he collected many rare specimens and must have been delighted by the tapestry of exotic climbers woven through trellises at the back of the stoves ( see p. 55 ) . |
| 14 | The last one-man show he ever held in London was staged at the Leger Gallery ( 1943 ) , and the only art school to accept him as a teacher was the Borough Polytechnic , where he taught part-time from 1945 to 1953 . |
| 15 | Jaffray left them there , and battled across to the shore on his own where he summoned other help . |
| 16 | When he was thirteen , despite an erratic academic performance at King 's , Sorley gained an open scholarship to Marlborough College , where he developed two abiding sensual passions , for food and cross-country running . |
| 17 | During the war of 1914–18 he served in the food production department of the Board of Agriculture , where he developed sex-linked plumage variants as a means of sexing chicks ; this led to many of the commercial ‘ self-sexing ’ breeds . |
| 18 | The earliest examples are pictures of 1907 or 1908 , such as the wonderful ‘ Bathers with a turtle ’ , where he lays three isolated figures and this absurd tortoise in the picture and persuades them to cohere simply by the pressure exerted on them by the colour of the ground . |
| 19 | Shortly afterwards Howard left Stoke Newington and moved back to central London , to St Pauls Churchyard , where he owned several houses in the neighbourhood . |
| 20 | After a childhood in Lanark , Scotland , where he attended preparatory school , Douglas went to Canada in 1819 in the employ of a firm soon absorbed by the Hudson 's Bay Company . |
| 21 | We went quietly up to the top floor , where he unlocked one of the small black doors . |
| 22 | He still stays in a church house and has converted part of it into a chapel , where he celebrates mass for 200 people every Sunday . |
| 23 | Having a married sister in Cape Town , he sailed for South Africa in 1914 , where he painted some pictures , gave a series of lectures on modern art , and published a few articles and poems . |
| 24 | His gallery is a grand townhouse on East 79th Street where he trades modern masters , including art from the estate of Pierre Matisse , which he purchased in partnership with Sotheby 's , and blue-chip post-war American and European paintings by Jackson Pollock , Rothko , de Kooning and Francis Bacon . |
| 25 | He 's already put them to good use at Halifax Rugby League club where he enjoyed four years of success . |
| 26 | He was accused of rape and murder after attending a dance where he became intimate with a gardener 's daughter named Mary Ashford . |
| 27 | He was a physician who , after qualifying in medicine in 1912 , worked for a time at University College Hospital , London , where he became interested in bacteriology and the developing discipline of immunology . |
| 28 | He stayed on at the Cambridge biochemistry department as demonstrator until 1955 , when he moved to Edinburgh University as director of the chemical biology unit of the Department of Zoology , where he became senior lecturer and then Reader . |
| 29 | In 1920 , for example , the notoriously rotund producer G. B. Samuelson made a trip to Universal Studios , where he produced six pictures to learn what he could about the American way of doing things . |
| 30 | This time , he appeared in the heavyweight division where he produced similar results , throwing his three opponents in the preliminary rounds for ippon ( 10 points ) . |