Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | For French Country Cooking he borrowed from Elizabeth David many of the utensils that appear in his illustrations . |
| 2 | Hunting for some writing paper he emptied the drawer in his wardrobe out onto the floor . |
| 3 | The day after that telephone call he paid his hotel bill and left by taxi for the main station . |
| 4 | ‘ Once , against Swindon a couple of seasons ago , there 's this fat cunt and Geoff 's standing outside the ground before the match and this cunt bungs a bit of old dog shit he 's found by a hall at him and it hits him on the arm … |
| 5 | It is arguable that in the case of foreign source income he must also be resident in the United Kingdom before a charge can arise . |
| 6 | In the case of high technology design he must provide a service for the engineers and scientists who carry the technical design responsibility . |
| 7 | Quite why Sir Thomas 's daughter should be keen to make the acquaintance of some kitchen staff he did not explain . |
| 8 | He would imagine the dead bodies of some pop stars he had admired , his mother , and a few pets he had owned as a boy . |
| 9 | Towards the end of the 19th century , in 1894 , former College Principal James Beart Simonds published in his old age a series of biographical sketches of some College teachers he had known . |
| 10 | But these firms , as I said , they wanted this or that or the other and with er because of this fellow Mr he did nothing to get it out of his so it just happened , you know what I mean . |
| 11 | So in 1950 the American , Hillary Waugh , impressed by a volume of real murder cases he had picked up , not so much because of the horrific details the author had dwelt on as by the tone of authenticity that seemed to arise naturally from the accounts of the cases , decided to write a fictional crime story catching as much as he could of this real-life feel . |
| 12 | I asked my own surgeon how many of these prostate operations he did in a year , and he said around four hundred . |
| 13 | Hartley Coleridge was one of his devoted friends and admirers and said ‘ Of all landscape painters he was the most literal , the most absolute copyist of the objects on his retina . |
| 14 | Although this incredible business trip made the young Venetian merchant the most famous of all business travellers he was not the first to trade with China . |
| 15 | Xu says he is impressed with the standard of fundamental craft skills he found among both staff and students at Norwich . |
| 16 | Like a character in one of those horror movies he once intoned : ‘ Peace does not come from weakness . |
| 17 | As commander of uniform operations department he had responsibility for areas such as traffic , dogs , crime prevention and public relations . |
| 18 | Peter Samuel of Kingfisher , who quoted the names of nine search firms he had employed ( including two major international consultancies , Heidrick and Struggles and Norman Broadbent ) , argued that he used both large and small firms because of the variety of assignments he handled . |
| 19 | You ask a man who has a bit more experience and plenty of common sense ad he 'll say to you , ‘ Get the lad in , bring him home to his parents and the father will give him a clip round the ear . ’ |
| 20 | come in the kitchen and like that weird sort of red rum gear he had |
| 21 | Graham ( whose chapter on budgeting and allocating is essential reading ) reports a survey of 23 university libraries he carried out in 1985 , in which 14 of the library grants covered only non-staffing costs ( books , periodicals , binding and operational money ) , whilst the other nine included staffing , though usually with severe limitations on virement between staffing and other sub-heads . |
| 22 | Against the living death of modern material civilisation he spoke again and again , and even if these dead could speak , what he said is unanswerable . |
| 23 | Otto turned out to have measureless charm and the most courteous manner , and in slow , correct English told us of how he had perfected his tactics in Baltic exercises before the war , how he had put them into practice in the Atlantic , and how , on the night after his capture , he had played bridge in the day-cabin of Captain Macintyre with one of the ship 's lieutenants and the captains of two merchant ships he had sunk , and then slept ( for Captain Macintyre was in his sea-cabin ) in Captain Macintyre 's bunk . |
| 24 | Coleridge 's other drug-induced efforts are sheer doggerel by comparison and like many drug addicts he was famous for frequently taking great liberties with the exact truth — especially where his drug habit was involved . |
| 25 | Like most Tongan men he was a mighty figure , reputedly weighing nearly a quarter of a ton . |
| 26 | There will be a bright little man at Camp 3 , very clever and on the up , and your Michael Holly is going to be his pride and joy , and when he can wheel your man into that press conference he 's going to be very smug . |
| 27 | If a doctor treats a patient with high blood pressure he records blood pressure levels before , during and after treatment . |
| 28 | The telling recalled with violent clarity horrors he wanted to forget . |
| 29 | He wo n't get far with those infinitive verbs he uses at the moment . |
| 30 | Other things , John would see and ask , ‘ Can I afford to buy that ? ’ — as when he fell in love with two leather suitcases he saw in a Munich shop window . |