Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether because of the position she 'd made him adopt , or the bonds securing him , he was as stiff as a fence post . |
| 2 | Was it the Virgin rescuing her own or the Devil showing he was beaten ? |
| 3 | But , if the refusal or the conditions prevent him from obtaining ‘ reasonably beneficial use ’ of the land , he can serve a purchase notice . |
| 4 | Either the investigating officer , using his own personal radio , or the officer accompanying him is then usually able to check those details almost immediately on the police national computer . |
| 5 | There were one or two ladies in Baldersdale who were very good at midwifery , which was just as well when a baby was on the way and the doctor could n't get there in time , or the weather impeded him . |
| 6 | Under reg 10 of the Transfer Regulations , the vendor is under a duty to give recognised trade unions certain information about the business sale and the vendor is under a duty to consult with the unions if either the vendor or the purchaser envisages he will take " measures " in relation to the transfer . |
| 7 | He therefore need not be cautioned if questions are put for other purposes , for example , to establish his identity or his ownership of any vehicle or the need to search him in the exercise of powers of stop and search . |
| 8 | He therefore need not be cautioned if questions are put for other purposes , for example , to establish his identity , his ownership of , or responsibility for , any vehicle or the need to search him in the exercise of powers of stop and search . |
| 9 | He seemed as happy as Larry trailing round the greasy dustbins of Bristol till nuclear war broke out or the police nabbed him for pilfering a used Tesco bag . |
| 10 | He went to Bathsheba 's house , where the maids told him their mistress was watching the sheep-washing . |
| 11 | On the contrary , he wandered where the spirit lead him . |
| 12 | For instance if the policyholder is a married man with two young children and the value of the claim is $100 for the family , then to deduct four excesses would mean that the corporation would not make any payment for an incident where the Policyholder thought he had taken out cover . |
| 13 | It snatched at Cardiff and he tried to twist away from it , pain like fire stabbing into his chest where the thing had him gripped with the other claw . |
| 14 | At 12 noon MacDonald returned to Downing Street , where the Cabinet awaited him . |
| 15 | Where the hell does he think he is ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Where the hell does he get it from ? ’ |
| 17 | Neither the campaign nor the result purged him or his family of a settled if unenthusiastic feeling that he ought to go into the House of Commons . |
| 18 | Immediately the mud sucked him in up to his ankles . |
| 19 | Lorton was relieved that the clutch gave him no trouble : the wound in his leg had been designed to scare him , not to incapacitate him . |
| 20 | A Word Child ( 1975 ) , indeed , is so specific in its references to places , and especially to places on the London Underground , that the narrator remarks he was once tempted to call his story the Inner Circle ; and Martin Amis 's London Fields ( 1989 ) is almost as detailed about Notting Hill as if it were a guide-book . |
| 21 | He did n't like the country and used to say that the birds kept him awake . |
| 22 | But Winch 's argument is that the elder knows he has done wrong in killing the gangster . |
| 23 | The defendant , who paid £10 per deal , said that the amphetamine put him on a high for an hour and that he used to escape pressures and worries . |
| 24 | Who is Ebeneezer Goode and do you think he understands that the song concerns him ? |
| 25 | The best book I read myself in 1991 was ‘ Biography of James Hudson Taylor ’ ( OMF ) by Howard and Geraldine Taylor , which showed that even one of the giants of missionary history had his own personal struggles , but also that the Lord brought him through . |
| 26 | Later Mr Unsworth said that the princess told him : ‘ Thank you very much , Ted , for saying those things . ’ |
| 27 | Finally , the patient himself asked that the doctors kill him : they did so — through a drugs overdose . |
| 28 | but , I did hear something , I do n't know whether it 's true , that the doctors took him off the |
| 29 | The cook stood up on the forward side , so that the shed protected him when there was a favourable wind . |
| 30 | It was argued on behalf of the Minister that the legislation gave him an unfettered discretion as to whether to refer or not . |