Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] of [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | Jeff went to the psychiatrist and they start babbling on saying about the forty milligrams of valium he 's taking . |
| 7 | Athelstan promptly refused , for the few mouthfuls of ale he had already drunk bit at his stomach . |
| 8 | Out of 105 items of prey he examined , only 7 were pieces of lamb compared with 3 entire fox bodies and 25 rabbits . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | In such moments of confession he frequently strikes a prophetic note about his future life as a writer . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Over the eight square feet of hole he had nailed a blanket . |
| 19 | The soup came and with it the three bottles of beer he had ordered . |
| 20 | At length Zen lazily drew out of his pocket the three items of mail he had collected from the Questura . |
| 21 | See if my husband wants a hand with these bits of wood he 's plonking up against the wall ! |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | In such rapid alternations of mood he rescues his hero from the risk of monotony in the way he has chosen to reveal his feelings . |
| 24 | There he is into the moving of earth as well as mortar : having repaired the house , he constructs a vista culminating in a ‘ pretty alcove ’ of his own design , thus providing a prospect to view through the large panes of glass he has let into his lattices ( he disapproves of the new fashion for sash-windows ) . |
| 25 | Terrible neuralgic pains which troubled him throughout this period were the mirror of his inward distress , and the large doses of laudanum he took to relieve his symptoms , a portent for the future . |
| 26 | After 18 months of treatment he was clear of TB and able to complete the immigration procedures . |
| 27 | Oh he said they 've got all sorts of aggro he said . |
| 28 | Much of the three thousand tonnes of charcoal he imports every year comes from mangrove swamps near the Indonesian coast . |
| 29 | As to alternative sources of care he thought the better answer was the crossroads organisation rather than an nursing agency . |
| 30 | When Beveridge addressed the different primary causes of need he distinguished what he saw as the ‘ problem ’ of age from the needs created by disability : the former being concerned with retirement from work as a result of age and the latter concerning the inability of a person of working age to work as a result of illness or accident . |