Example sentences of "[pron] he [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Flood had been staring into that tree a lot lately , and worse still having conversations with someone he saw in its branches . |
| 2 | This is a characteristic common to everyone and in fact Milton here shows us just how much of himself he puts into his Satan when we recall that he , as a Puritan , contended with his own pride , a fault with which he was most unhappy . |
| 3 | Caccini was always more interested in song as such and his most important work is not Euridice but his collection of solo songs , Le nuove musiche ( Florence , 1602 ) , with figured bass — which he describes in his preface as ‘ bass for the chitarrone ’ . |
| 4 | He conducted Bantock 's Fifine , a long , luxurious tonepoem , soon after it was first performed in 1912 , while The Garden of Fand was one of several Bax compositions which he took into his repertoire . |
| 5 | This omits the details on Mildred , but adds , in a way reminiscent of chapter 5 of the 1027 Letter , that Cnut was most acceptable to the emperor , and says that on landing he hurried to St Augustine 's to offer them rich gifts — no doubt including the gold plate which he took from his treasures and held aloft to attract the saint 's attention during the storm . |
| 6 | His eyes filled , but he did not know it was happening , this overflowing , until I reached down , wiped his face , showed him my wet fingers which he dried with his own . |
| 7 | They are recalled as somewhat sad , dependent figures : a ‘ poor old fellow ’ who went out to his sister for his meals ; ‘ a right cripple ’ who had been unable to work for over ten years ; ‘ a very old gentleman ’ who scraped together a living by selling vegetables and tomatoes which he grew in his greenhouse , but was ‘ very unhappy ’ because he had quarrelled with his drunken son . |
| 8 | An obvious explanation is the patronage which he had at his disposal as chief steward , for although this derived from the crown its exercise was a manifestation of the duke 's own good lordship . |
| 9 | An obvious explanation is the patronage which he had at his disposal as chief steward , for although this derived from the crown its exercise was a manifestation of the duke 's own good lordship . |
| 10 | He had only one more room to do , he said , and he should have finished long before this but he 'd been badly delayed in the car on the other side of the dining car , which he had in his care also . |
| 11 | The only thing Patrick was sensitive about was the résumés of the letters from John and Angela which he had in his pocket . |
| 12 | Hoomey knew it was a suggestion for sugar-lumps , which he kept in his pocket . |
| 13 | There was also a treasured , unprecedented letter , which he kept in his wallet and unfolded at least once a day , humbly asking his forgiveness . |
| 14 | Laura , knowing how much this vehicle meant to Bernard , had a miniature of it made for her husband , which he kept in his office . |
| 15 | In 1873 he published The Art of Sketching from Nature , a sketching manual where he described the water-colour sketching technique , which he illustrated with his own lithographs ; 1874 saw the publication of the History of Holland House which was illustrated by his own carbon photographic prints . |
| 16 | He tells us that he ‘ spent months researching ’ ( citations from his letter , The Art Newspaper No. 22 , October 1992 , p.3 ) the texts which he uses in his work at the Neue Galerie at Kassel and he criticises me for ‘ forgetting ’ these texts which took him so long to research , even though they are clearly mentioned in the second , fourth and fifth paragraphs of my article which comprises only seven paragraphs . |
| 17 | We are fortunate to have a letter from Barbarossa himself , written to his biographer , in which he tells of his campaigns in Italy and of the terrible slaughter that resulted from feuds between the Emperor and the Italian cities . |
| 18 | This left plenty of free time during the day which he spent with his father 's horses ; he gradually became an expert at training and managing them . |
| 19 | It gave her address , her phone number , her next of kin … he tore off this last part and put it back into the locket , which he returned to her body . |
| 20 | Henry is best known today for the series of public contests of poetic invective in which he engaged with his student Michael the Cornishman [ q.v. ] |
| 21 | The famous Swedish Don Giovanni , John Forsell , declared that the young Tauber was the greatest Ottavio he had ever heard , and he was noted for the intense conviction with which he declaimed to his Donna Anna ( in the German text then still generally in use , even at festivals ) the solemn oath , ‘ Ich schwöre ’ . |
| 22 | Saving only the fealty which he owed to his father he swore allegiance to Philip against all men . |
| 23 | In March 1337 he was created Earl of Gloucester : a title which he owed to his wife 's inheritance , to his own services to the Crown , and to his popularity with the baronage . |
| 24 | Absent-mindedly , Jackie licked his own fingers and ran them round the plate by the bed , picking up the crumbs which he transferred to his tongue . |
| 25 | The result was the verse known as ‘ Mythopoeia ’ , some of which he quoted in his essay . |
| 26 | Lesk ( 1986 ) gives a study of text in definitional parts of dictionary entries and compares currently available machine-readable dictionaries with OED entries which are generally much longer and include many quotations , which he requires for his sense dis-ambiguation system . |
| 27 | When I speak to him he responds ; but not with the same speed with which he responds to his nurse , from whom of course he obtains satisfaction of his physical needs . |
| 28 | His precocious skill is immediately evident in the Piano Trio Suite Op. 8 , which he wrote in his late teens . |
| 29 | For some time Leonard had been listening to the music of the day , which he shared with his mother and sister . |
| 30 | Corbett Farraday let himself into the moderately imposing Edwardian villa which he shared with his mother . |