Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] he " in BNC.

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1 He used a tiff with France as an excuse for military preparations he might need in the east .
2 Instead of one hour for four weeks he 's
3 In Earle v Medhurst [ 1985 ] CLY 2650 the plaintiff 's claim to privilege for medical reports he had disclosed in a previous action against a different defendant claiming damages for similar injuries was not upheld .
4 On registration by the company a buyer receives a new certificate and the seller a balance certificate for any shares he retains .
5 Robert Motherwell , who died last year , refined , over a period of years , a succession of related paintings he called ‘ The Open Series ’ .
6 John Douglas found himself charged with behaviour likely to lead to a breach of the peace as a result of some remarks he is said to have made at a meeting in Rathfriland .
7 Waddington stated in a written parliamentary reply on April 4 , 1990 , that following his study of such documents he had concluded that the removal had been based on straightforward facts .
8 This was a side of both women he had never seen , although Charley could have enlightened him .
9 Seb pushed his way through the circle of men and in the dancing light of breeze-blown torches he saw Jacob kneeling on the ground .
10 But what irritated him above all was the jumble of loose ends he would be obliged to leave behind , just at the moment when he was beginning to see how to unravel them .
11 Photography would n't let him go , however , and after serving out his apprenticeship with various studios he went freelance , working to commission and supplying picture libraries with travel shots .
12 Photography would n't let him go , however , and after serving out his apprenticeship with various studios he went freelance , working to commission and supplying picture libraries with travel shots .
13 After making his plans for the safekeeping of funds in several banks he started off on his travels once again .
14 The British ambassador to Vienna complained in the 1780s that he had not received a line in reply to fifty despatches he had sent home ; and when he returned to London he " was under the utmost Astonishment at having been twice to the Secretary of State 's Office without finding a single Soul there " .
15 In public addresses to large crowds he also attacked corruption and economic inequality , criticized rich nations over their failure to relieve the burden of world debt , and called for solidarity with Latin America 's poor .
16 Ajax Amsterdam coach Louis van Gaal was saved from a demoralising home defeat by two players he has on the transfer list .
17 He did his best to turn Scipio Africanus into an unscrupulous manipulator of religious customs he did not share .
18 Additionally , Blake was involved in checking Communist infiltration into the British sector and as part of these duties he began to learn Russian and had some officially approved contact with the Russians as part of a plan to see whether any of them could be persuaded to become British agents .
19 The order came at the end of the summer term and , just as the holidays were beginning , the teacher who was going to replace my father arrived to see what kind of strange specimens he was going to land among and what sort of house he and his family were going to live in .
20 In one large painting and a suite of related prints he pays homage to the great minimalist by superimposing texts relating to Newman 's career over images of his work .
21 In support of these assertions he compares the situation ‘ in traditional industry ’ , where , for the worker arriving in the factory in the morning , ‘ his individual machine is a bit like his child .
22 As he reached the door , with a variety of helpful obstructions he shouted his Parthian shot — ‘ You ca n't bloody have it both ways … ’
23 One trader happened to have a case of brylcream in stock and over the course of several months he saw the retail price of his 144 jars increase : it doubled , trebled , eventually quintupled .
24 Toscanini was clearly very much in tune with Mendelssohn 's music , but as in the case of other composers he tended to concentrate on a few scores , and not always those which were best .
25 If he was the cynosure of all eyes he did n't notice and in his present mood he would n't have been troubled if he had .
26 One of the author 's former clients is still awaiting certificates for American stocks he bought through the crashed Sheridan Securities over two years ago , a familiar story to clients of many licensed dealers ( and many clients deal through several ) .
27 The British Museum agreed to get him a permit and to give him a grant , in return for any antiquities he might discover .
28 He specialised in collecting the work of four artists he considered to be the true Cubists , Picasso , Braque , Leger and Gris .
29 Gave me more laughs than any Leeds player especially when under the influence of old frogslegs he began trying to control the ball with his feet .
30 It was the first of many speeches in which by the measured and skilful deployment of moderate words he visibly affected the opinions of a crucial audience .
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