Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | When morning came she was too ill with the poison to move and despite her weak protests he told her he would watch over her , for no eagle should be prey to gull or crow . |
| 2 | Through the heavy fretwork of its top windows he could see the towering minarets of the Bab es Zuweyla , and from the box window of the storey below , where he was standing when Sesostris approached , he had a good view along the street in both directions . |
| 3 | Their aerial photographs he subjected to destructive scrutiny , the light crop lines they detected under the unbroken fields he dated several centuries later than the sacking of Aurae Phiala , the dark crop marks emerging so strongly in contrast he refused to consider as early Roman military lines , but set well back into pre-Roman settlement . |
| 4 | In respect of requiring to prove that the alleged libel was true in all its factual particulars he said , at p. 279 : |
| 5 | To reach the ancient Norman edifice with its pointed windows he had to pass through the bell tower , open to the world at both ends . |
| 6 | Now , seeing Mary 's shapelessness goblin-like straddling her thick hips he wanted her and his child out of there , as though they were vulnerable to these most bizarre manifestations of the random and the destructive . |
| 7 | If he had heard her do that in their single days he would never have married her . |
| 8 | Bibb atoned for his error at the start of the second half , when after Castleford lost the ball in front of their own posts he pounced quickly and beat three tacklers for the third Rovers ' try , Knapper adding his first goal . |
| 9 | It had only one skilled male dancer on its strength , Lionel Luyt , and in the first of their two programmes he had to partner the ballerina in the second act of Swan Lake , then dance both the Prince and Bluebird in Aurora 's Wedding ( with just three minutes to change costumes ) and finally lead the cast of Prince Igor . |
| 10 | In its four quarters he kept his four ‘ wives ’ , each totally oblivious of the others , until sheer misfortune led to his discovery and his just deserts . |
| 11 | Before her astonished eyes he turned on his heel and walked from the discotheque floor , leaving her alone in the midst of the dancers . |
| 12 | Before her astonished eyes he calmly sat down in the chair at the opposite side of the desk . |
| 13 | He made their glowing colours he made their tiny wings |
| 14 | And yet that high broad forehead was his , the little tilted nose was his , his the pointed — although in her case , flat — ears , and in her huge eyes he saw his own little ones . |
| 15 | Since the accused was charged with representing that the car had its original plates he was not guilty because that misrepresentation did not induce the victim to buy . |
| 16 | To his professional duties he had added the role of Departmental Safety Officer , and it was this experience which took him in 1977 to Imperial College in the new post of College Safety Director . |
| 17 | When Margaret said , ‘ How about bed , darling ? ’ instead of his usual protests he obeyed immediately , and even agreed to have a bath . |
| 18 | To the end of his political days he remained unreconciled to what I hope and believe every public person should become reconciled to : the unimportance of most opinions expressed by most people . |
| 19 | During one of his European tours he arrived at a prison in the Savoy where a full-scale riot was in progress and two warders had already been killed . |
| 20 | Probing with his narrow hands he located the organs he sought , and , using another slender knife , dislodged and withdrew them , handing them to his assistant , who placed them in bronze trays and took them to another table where he covered them with natron salt , to dry and preserve them ready for the four jars which would stand in a chest at the head of the coffin . |
| 21 | But as Edward exhausted his foreign creditors he came to rely on his own nobles and the London merchants for loans , and this necessitated a greater sensitivity to the political views and interests of his creditors than his predecessors had had to show . |
| 22 | Since he could not afford to keep her and the boy out of his meagre earnings he drifted away , leaving her to claim supplementary benefit again a few weeks later . |
| 23 | One of his old associates he had chatted to in the bar a couple of nights previously , had mentioned how much he enjoyed his regular visits to the Turkish baths in Gloucester . |
| 24 | Time after time on his Scottish travels he conjured original ideas from his encounters with the unfamiliar . |
| 25 | Down from his stocked shelves he took Shirley and The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists . |
| 26 | Of his Cornish relations he said that he found them ‘ … most excellent people , but I could not understand more than one half they said ’ . |
| 27 | But no amount of camp humour could banish the bitter awareness that every time he gave way to his sexual needs he became a criminal . |
| 28 | But in his theoretical essays he gives some interesting indications of the ways in which they may contribute to a poem 's effect . |
| 29 | Having overtaken Clive 's score , he declared knowing that if he lost his wicket in the remaining two of his 10 overs he would have 10 runs deducted . |
| 30 | In his early teens he turned to reading poetry , then to writing it — and , though he showed his poems to his sisters , he kept them secret from his mother . |