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

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1 However , even when the dinner was over , their ‘ guests ’ showed no sign of leaving , at which point the Emperor began to pull on the ends of his moustache — one of the few signs of irritation he ever allowed himself .
2 In some cases of urgency he can introduce regulations with a shelf life of up to 12 months without consultation ( s11(5) ) .
3 Colours also may get distorted as the eye lens gets yellower with age ; in some pictures of Mulready he believed he could demonstrate this defect .
4 Sir Thomas , however , or rather his stomach , clearly did not agree , for halfway through the entremets , with a few words of apology he absented himself from-the table .
5 Bill borrowed a corkscrew and opened some bottles of Beaujolais he had brought .
6 He said they 've changed your units , and he said there 's an allocation a back allocation for you of forty baskets of tomatoes he said to me .
7 At forty-five years of age he was at the height of his powers , determined to drive out the Almoravids and bring about a united Spain .
8 Jeff went to the psychiatrist and they start babbling on saying about the forty milligrams of valium he 's taking .
9 Athelstan promptly refused , for the few mouthfuls of ale he had already drunk bit at his stomach .
10 Out of 105 items of prey he examined , only 7 were pieces of lamb compared with 3 entire fox bodies and 25 rabbits .
11 He could remember minute details of planes he had helped to design but not the names of people with whom he worked .
12 After a few moments of silence he pressed the button of an integral cassette-player beneath the dashboard and she was delighted to hear the opening bars of Mendelssohn 's Third Symphony .
13 Today , Alexei is pale , tires easily and has frequent colds and infections but , despite the continual doses of radiation he receives in the food he eats , the water he drinks , he is still in reasonable health .
14 The treating , perhaps fortunately , cut his visit short for after a few nights of festivities he was stony broke .
15 George Henry Robins ( 1778–1847 ) , a London auctioneer famous for his hyperbolical descriptions of properties he was selling .
16 Among the Dark Elves of Naggaroth he is known as the Reaper , to the Goblins of Red-Axe Pass he is Orcbane , and to the north the Norse know him as Mankiller .
17 In the early days of aviation he made designs for aeroplanes and , later in life , he took up golf and planned houses for himself and his friends in Berkshire .
18 Now he was not only unable to remember the names of politicians , sportsmen and television personalities , he also found his memory was unable to supply the personal details of people he had known since he was a child .
19 On joint assets of £4m he would retain £2.7m or so .
20 In such moments of confession he frequently strikes a prophetic note about his future life as a writer .
21 Years in which Creggan had matured , his wings bigger now and darker ; years to grow tired of the teachings of old Minch and bitter that the early hopes of freedom he had had were gone .
22 just like that crazy after what , forty odd years of smoking he stopped it just like that , and then when the doctor said when he 'd been , after he 'd got the results back , you know , all the , all the ones they do at the hospital then
23 He reached the hollow of her throat , passion alarmingly evident in his half-closed eyes and in the little groans of pleasure he was giving .
24 Because of these methods of production he is also able to make special tools to order , one such recent order was for hooked turning tools .
25 Over the eight square feet of hole he had nailed a blanket .
26 The soup came and with it the three bottles of beer he had ordered .
27 On the handle are three bodies of animals he overcame , the Nemean Lion , the Keryneian hind and the Erymanthian boar , and at the base , the tree with the Golden Apples , two of the Stymphalian birds and the Lernaean Hydra .
28 At length Zen lazily drew out of his pocket the three items of mail he had collected from the Questura .
29 See if my husband wants a hand with these bits of wood he 's plonking up against the wall !
30 And you had best be grateful to me , for if you had left it to the little men of law he could buy better and shiftier than you , and you would never have got your money at all . ’
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