Example sentences of "[pron] he [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't exactly offer his hand , but when each of them put out theirs he allowed his to be taken and dangled slightly . |
| 2 | In his own bed in Mill Hill Rufus used a sheath or practised coitus interruptus , which he prided himself on being rather good at . |
| 3 | Rosengarten 's forte lay in the fine arts , painting and sculpture in particular , to which he committed himself at McGill ahead of Leonard . |
| 4 | David Snow settles for 65 species including one , the grey-winged cotinga , which he discovered himself in 1980 . |
| 5 | I particularly enjoyed long evening discussions with Lance , whose meticulous methods and ambitions in broadcasting were explained in his book ‘ The Stuff of Radio ’ , which he sent me on his return to London , together with a copy of his novel , ‘ The Perfect Witch ’ . |
| 6 | There followed a seven-year period in which he wrote nothing except ‘ two or three little presentation pieces which occasion called for ’ . |
| 7 | He opted for the latter route and took up the gauntlet he saw set before him by steeling himself for a career as a boxer , a career in which he distinguished himself as a man of immense resolve and purposefulness . |
| 8 | The point is that Knighton , for all the ludicrous exhibitionism with which he announced himself to the Stretford End , decided to withdraw , despite evidence that he could indeed finance the original deal . |
| 9 | Meredith 's senses were alerted to his hard , firm male body , the command with which he manoeuvred them around the square , the pressure of his fingers against her supple spine . |
| 10 | When the shot was first used editorially , illustrating a story on alcoholism , the man wrote a furious letter to Doisneau 's agency , Rapho , in which he revealed himself to be a respected professor at the Sorbonne . |
| 11 | It is evident that Ricardou had established a new doxa of reflexivity from which no deviations could be permitted , such was the extent to which he saw himself as the custodian of a radical modernity . |
| 12 | ( 2 ) Where property or a right or interest in property is or purports to be transferred for value to a person acting in good faith , no later assumption by him of rights which he believed himself to be acquiring shall , by reason of any defect in the transferor 's title , amount to theft of the property . |
| 13 | Where property or a right or interest in property is or purports to be transferred for value to a person acting in good faith , no later assumption by him of rights which he believed himself to be acquiring shall , by reason of any defect in the transferor 's title , amount to theft of the property . |
| 14 | I will cite two situations in which he was involved , and from which he extricated himself with remarkable ease : |
| 15 | ‘ It appears , Trumper , that your friend Private Prescott made a will in which he left everything to you . ’ |
| 16 | No wonder Edward , in order to protect suitors from ecclesiastical censures or reprisals , made available a new form of the writ which was issued ‘ on behalf of many ’ — ex relatu plurium — in which he substituted himself for the unnamed petitioner or petitioners ; this form of the writ enjoyed wider popularity after the Council of Reading . |
| 17 | This may have contributed to the vigour with which he immersed himself in the growing student unrest that was a feature if the political upheavals of the time . |
| 18 | It was the attempt to restore the appearance of Gaitskellite centrality that produced Mr Kinnock 's revolution and the packaging operation to which he allowed it to be subjected , and his failure , even so , to conceal the Labour Party 's true character which produced disaster last Thursday . |
| 19 | Agrippa 's face was round , cherubic , his features small and neat like those of a child , except for the hooded eyes and the look of sardonic amusement with which he watched everything about him . |
| 20 | He was not sure which he wanted her to be and was still puzzling about it next day when she called to take him down . |
| 21 | The distinctive sloping pantile roof of the Chapel of Reconciliation came into view and soon we were descending stiffly from the coaches and joyfully into church to receive a special word of welcome from our Bishop , in which he reminded us of the purpose of a pilgrimage , together with our special intentions . |
| 22 | The young man 's brother wrote to Lord Panmure to see if David could make the best of the situation in which he found himself by obtaining a midshipman 's place . |
| 23 | That perception only added to the urgency with which he threw himself into new international initiatives . |
| 24 | On Sunday morning Bishop Harris of Middlesbrough celebrated Mass and delivered the homily in which he welcomed us into his diocese and congratulated us on the work we were doing . |
| 25 | The conduct of the ministers was provocative , but Taylor 's treatment of them was more severe than that of his Archbishop , John Bramhall , who when faced with the same situation devised a form of letters , acceptable to the Presbyterians , by which he supplied them with the qualifications which they lacked , so that they were able to retain their livings . |
| 26 | Before Ronny Jordan was born , his mother 's landlord had a dream in which he pictured her beside a guitar . |
| 27 | Nonetheless , the main thrust of Kandel 's findings and the theoretical framework within which he set them during the 1970s and 1980s have until recently scarcely been challenged . |
| 28 | ‘ That you ’ The identity of the offender can be proved by the person who took the false report stating who he took it from . |
| 29 | They say that Blind Willie Johnson also learned slide from somebody else , someone who was too early on the scene to be recorded , and God knows who he learned it from , because nobody back then thought to ask those kind of questions . |
| 30 | I thought the Brigadier had told you he suspected him of running some racket on the side . ’ |