Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She thought his Catholicism , the emotion he mistook for faith , was a pity . |
| 2 | By the time he set off with Christian he had half formulated a plan to help with the future he had in mind for himself . |
| 3 | Nearly six years since Mr Gorbachev came to power , it is still unclear what sort of future he has in mind for the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | Eventually , the ballet was first given by the University Ballet as Suite , Opus 3 , but for a revival by the Ballet Club he settled on Suite , ‘ Aus Holbergs Zeit ’ ( ‘ from Holberg 's time ’ ) . |
| 5 | The long sentences in Swift 's ironic essay in support of cannibalism are explicable as a stylistic expression of the persona he adopts in order to intensify the impact of his outrageous proposal : in Corbett 's words , we seem to be " listening to a man who is so filled with his subject , so careful about qualifying his statements and computations , so infatuated with the sound of his own words , that he rambles on at inordinate length " The greater the range and size of the corpus which acts as a relative norm , the more valid the statement of relative frequency . |
| 6 | In an aunt 's loft he happened to chance across what he regards as his first hoard : a collection of dust-covered National Geographic magazines . |
| 7 | For instance he read every morning newspaper before midnight on the previous day ( in contrast to Harold Macmillan who claimed not to read newspapers ) and as a result he went to bed fully — and very ill-advisedly — informed of the disagreeable things that were being said about him , since almost all the papers had Tory proprietors and Tory-inclined editors . |
| 8 | Ken did n't have to put on drag in Carry On Screaming , the first of three 1966 releases , but in Carry On — Do n't Lose Your Head , he did get to wear a woman 's frilly corset which did n't go all that badly with the curled wig he wore as Citizen Camembert , the ‘ big cheese ’ of the French Revolutionary secret police . |
| 9 | When the council sought to evict him for non-payment of the extra rent he pleaded in defence that the resolution was invalid . |
| 10 | Ey I told them , I said you might hear some right a I was in the pub Saturday night , mind I did tell afterwards and he 's ever such a nice bl fella he comes over door |
| 11 | had a yard there and an old building , that 's where he had , that 's where he operated from and he used to get all this second hand timber demolition timber from Liverpool and Berkenhead and all that and he reckoned then that for every hundred pound he spent on demolition he had a thousand pound back |
| 12 | Paxton made him foreman of works at Prince 's Park , Liverpool , in 1844 , and after completion he remained as superintendent . |
| 13 | Now , however , Freud expands that concept as well and interestingly enough he goes back to the first term he used for repression . |
| 14 | Wundt thought that the universality he perceived in sign language was related to the concreteness of its concepts : |
| 15 | One of the founders so admired the puritan he stood for Parliament in 1968 under the banner of the John Hampden New Freedom Party . |
| 16 | To fill the gap he roared with laughter at his own witty fashion of dealing with ethics . |
| 17 | In a similar way he might have been surprised by the figure he cut in prose or come to that in life . |
| 18 | He spoke of a well-off socialist he knew at college ; what irked him was not the socialist views , some of which he agreed with , but the fact that here was a wealthy socialist telling working people what they should think . |
| 19 | The next one , a little bit further north , this time , and it 's the Danish National Anthem , and it says , something like , King Kristian Stood Beside the Loch He Masked in Mist and Smoke . |
| 20 | After wiping the back of his hand across his mouth he stood on tip-toe and stretched up to brush her powdered sweet-smelling cheek with his lips . |
| 21 | He was then released , on condition he went into exile . |
| 22 | This iron axe he took in honde . |
| 23 | Maybe it has something to do with the curious outlook he had on life . |
| 24 | Although his constitution was essentially a durable one ( he was " tough " , his sister , Ada , had said ) , from the earliest days of his marriage he had in fact been prey to various kinds of viral infection . |
| 25 | From that standpoint he looks at world development , taking into account the technical problems but concentrating mainly on the moral issues involved . |
| 26 | The steersman 's platform , with the huge horizontal rudder bar he used for steering , was right beside them . |
| 27 | the diarist ; for the sermon he heard on respect for the priestly office , see The Diary of Samuel Pepys , entry for 9 Aug. 1663 . |
| 28 | it does not boast about the wonderful lunch he had at company expense , |
| 29 | Strangest of all was the lunch he had with Poindexter on November 22nd , 1986 , the ruins of both Iran and contra all around them . |
| 30 | To quote the memoirs : ‘ … on Sunday the 4th August 1793 , after having finished the morning duty he always performed in person , of visiting , prescribing for , and superintending the dressing of the wounds of the horses in the infirmary , he sat down to continue his treatise on the outward conformation of the horse , a work he intended for publication : in a short time he informed Mrs. Vial that he felt himself extremely ill complaining of cold to a degree of shivering , attended with a violent headach [ sic ] , and great thirst . |