Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [art] [noun sg] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | For half an hour he took tea and biscuits with them , and discussed the problems of weight reduction through additional use of gallium worked into plutonium . |
| 2 | The pain of returning circulation was violent , and for half an hour he bit his lips and clenched the muscles that still worked to keep himself from moaning . |
| 3 | After half a mile he decided to turn off the embankment and walk up the side of the next field and along the path at the top of it , following the horses whom he could still see in the distance . |
| 4 | After half an hour he went off to watch the match against the Chelsea of Ian Porterfied , his erstwhile colleague . |
| 5 | He smiled , giving us the impression that — after all the adulation he usually experiences — he might find that something of a relief . |
| 6 | He simply observed , rather wearily , that if Gentle 's word was worth so little after all the effort he , Klein , had put into finding work for him , then it was perhaps best that they end their business relationship now . |
| 7 | Yet when Lukowiak looked for such a correlation he could not find it ; it seemed as if control of the strength of the reflex was not vested in any single cell of the abdominal ganglion , but was instead a property of the interactions between the ensemble of cells as a system . |
| 8 | If he had bumped into anyone worthy of half a mention he would have told us . |
| 9 | Thus , despite all the effort he had devoted to the cause of German unification , he opposed it when it came through the force of Prussian arms and Bismarckian diplomacy . |
| 10 | He had never heard of anyone actually reaching the German trenches , so he was n't sure what he was supposed to do next , and despite all the training he still found it hard to shoot on the run . |
| 11 | During this period he remained in regular touch with his Russian controller , giving him details of all the work he handled . |
| 12 | As he threw it into the sea , watching the water swallow up his past month 's work , he thought of all the walking he was soon to do . |
| 13 | Obviously , under such circumstances the former user is in need of all the support he or she can get . |
| 14 | Gradually , because of all the trouble he was getting into , and with Mr Crangle eyeing him suspiciously every time he the Bookman . |
| 15 | He can never see anything in front of him because of all the smoke he belches out from his nose and mouth , but that does n't bother him . |
| 16 | As his reputation went before him like a brass band in front of a carnival , from the age of twenty no woman he met could possibly have been unaware of it . |
| 17 | He is able to say that what he believes is true , and behind such a statement he has sure and sufficient reasons of which he is fully persuaded . |
| 18 | Against such a background he perceives , in terms echoed a year later by Michael Young , that the eleven-plus is ‘ likely to cause the working-classes now to lose many of the critical tentacles which they would have retained years ago and that a new caste system might prove to be at least as rigid as the old ’ . |
| 19 | He came to me and put his arms round me and said , " I 'm terribly glad , " and from the simple way he said it I knew that against all the evidence he had believed me , perhaps because he wanted to . |
| 20 | ‘ The Commissioner 's giving a pep talk this afternoon about all the progress he 's making on this shooting . |
| 21 | He drank my drink because I said something about all the money he was always flashing around and then he made a dirty crack about … |
| 22 | Ranulf felt his stomach lurch as all the wine he had drunk threatened to spew out . |
| 23 | Mr Clinton occasionally lost his temper , but through all the flak he showed remarkable staying power , which his supporters say is a mark of his fitness to occupy the White House 's Oval Office . |
| 24 | And all that was left was a silent man who was imprisoned still by a numbness born of horror and years of fear , tormented by the simple question to which there seemed to be no answer : why , through all the hell he had seen , had he survived ? |
| 25 | But he soon realized that he was leaving himself too little time for all the work he had to complete , and a regular routine of three days in London ( generally from Tuesday to Thursday ) and four days at Shamley Green was established instead . |
| 26 | For all their mutual sympathy , for all the sense he had of their being irrevocably bound together , this was the one question he knew he would never ask . |
| 27 | He is not to retaliate and must always be happy ; thankful for all the help he has received and act like a fucking Samaritan to those worse off then himself . |
| 28 | Aelred suggested that the Commission write to the Rev. MacLean expressing their gratitude for all the help he has given . |
| 29 | He submitted a bill for all the money he had spent on my upbringing . |
| 30 | She might have been speaking to him backwards in Swahili for all the attention he paid her explanation . |