Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his reply of 21 February 1935 , he added a footnote in his own hand which put the matter aptly ; but about my second article he had his doubts . |
| 2 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 3 | After his successful discharge he had to change jobs several times . |
| 4 | After his unfair sacking he retired here to Sedgebrook and ‘ lived a quiet and private life ’ . |
| 5 | The next time Seve played after his Open win he was at St Mellion and playing the worst he 'd played to shoot a 79 . |
| 6 | Through their pyrotechnic effect he looked unreal . |
| 7 | It had only one skilled male dancer on its strength , Lionel Luyt , and in the first of their two programmes he had to partner the ballerina in the second act of Swan Lake , then dance both the Prince and Bluebird in Aurora 's Wedding ( with just three minutes to change costumes ) and finally lead the cast of Prince Igor . |
| 8 | Bibb atoned for his error at the start of the second half , when after Castleford lost the ball in front of their own posts he pounced quickly and beat three tacklers for the third Rovers ' try , Knapper adding his first goal . |
| 9 | And in terms of its practical record he says , ‘ Whatever our misgivings , it is difficult not to feel a sense of admiration and gratitude for a movement that , in less than a century , through its direct action in some areas and through indirect influence in labour movements and other social forces in others , has raised to a human condition the life of at least half of the human race . ’ |
| 10 | Through the heavy fretwork of its top windows he could see the towering minarets of the Bab es Zuweyla , and from the box window of the storey below , where he was standing when Sesostris approached , he had a good view along the street in both directions . |
| 11 | When Karenin warns Anna of her dangerous position he says |
| 12 | When morning came she was too ill with the poison to move and despite her weak protests he told her he would watch over her , for no eagle should be prey to gull or crow . |
| 13 | But despite his frantic efforts he was unable to pull her free . |
| 14 | In the recent past Stephen has been a rebel hero , and despite his good intentions he is pressurised into rejoining the terrorist cause . |
| 15 | Despite his limited education he was widely read , absorbing the ideas of the European Marxists in the medium of French , German and English as well as Dutch . |
| 16 | Despite his apparent interest he had given her no clue as to whether his future plans might include her . |
| 17 | Despite his European background he developed a detached , almost apolitical style of social research . |
| 18 | Despite his human limitations he managed to retrieve the underwater thorn which would give immortality , although it was stolen from him on his journey back to Uruk by a serpent . |
| 19 | Despite his earnest Protestantism he married , by licence , on 3 August 1630 a Catholic heiress , Alathea , daughter of John Panton of Bryncunallt , Denbighshire , widow of William Sandys , fourth Baron Sandys . |
| 20 | During one of his European tours he arrived at a prison in the Savoy where a full-scale riot was in progress and two warders had already been killed . |
| 21 | With one fierce and skilful kick of his aching foot he will mend a deep concavity in the refrigerator 's flank . |
| 22 | For four years of his early life he lived at the court of King Philip II , to whom he did feudal homage in 1214 . |
| 23 | Having overtaken Clive 's score , he declared knowing that if he lost his wicket in the remaining two of his 10 overs he would have 10 runs deducted . |
| 24 | Despite or maybe because of his frequent outbursts he was a good teacher and got results . |
| 25 | In the midst of his second year he was sent off to the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth , for a crash course in everything Welsh prior to his investiture as Prince of Wales in the summer of 1969 . |
| 26 | At the beginning of his second term he started to deal with the problem by introducing people loyal to the administration at strategic levels throughout the departments . |
| 27 | Towards the end of his long life he married for the second time . |
| 28 | His financial position was secure for the first time , and for the last twenty years of his long life he was able to devote himself to his work of creating a Serbian literary language and bringing to the notice of his countrymen and the world the riches of the Serbian oral tradition . |
| 29 | To the very end of his long life he continued to be consulted about these types of issues , and lived to be present at the Pan Anglican Congress of 1908 , at which so many of his ideals were acclaimed . |
| 30 | Then with the chunky knuckles of his right hand he sent his full tumbler of water surfing Western-style up the skiddy steel bar . |