Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [subord] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | The victim , in his 30s , was hit in the arm and leg by the gunman outside a Belfast training centre for the disabled where he was learning computer skills . |
| 2 | Yesterday proved to be significant for the stand-off for he also announced his engagement to Lucy Fleming , a 25-year-old art teacher from Uplawmoor , near Glasgow . |
| 3 | Liverpool 's tactical and technical limitations were exposed by the newly-crowned Russian champions , and while it is easy to be wise after the event , Rosenthal could just have been the man to produce that little something out of the ordinary if he had been used from the start against Spartak . |
| 4 | She sat very still , washed with the absurd embarrassment of the able-bodied in the presence of the lame as he said , ‘ See you . ’ |
| 5 | He unloosed the third and fourth and was struggling with the reins of the fifth when he heard voices on the path . |
| 6 | If a manufacturer wishes to give even more nutrition information , he must state all the nutrients in Group 2 and as many of the following as he chooses polyols ( such as sorbitol ) and starch , monounsaturates , polyunsaturates and cholesterol , minerals such as iron and calcium , any vitamin(s) . |
| 7 | Brian Swan was first to the ball when Townsend 's penalty came off the right-hand post and Swan was also in support of the stand-off when he touched down for his first try . |
| 8 | This arrangement obliges anyone sitting there to turn his head around sharply towards the left if he wants to see A … — especially anyone in the fourth chair , which is the farthest away . |
| 9 | Taylor was surprised that Robson forced his way back into the side this season , after having only a disappointing performance against the Irish when he made his previous comeback in March . |
| 10 | Among the Hwicce , Osric ruled as king ( HE IV , 23 ) from the mid-670s when he granted land to the abbess of Bath ( CS 43 : S 51 ) , and Oshere granted land as king of the Hwicce to Cuthswith , abbess of Bath , in 693 ( CS 85 : S 53 ) . |
| 11 | She would not , of course , have been surprised to hear her father making one of his many nocturnal pilgrimages , but he would have taken his stick , banged doors , bumped against furniture , turned on lights , even sung an old pop song from the sixties if he could have been sure of waking the children . |
| 12 | Always in the leading group , McMahon pushed to the front before the last where he was challenged by the favourite Over the Edge , but keeping his mount perfectly balanced and running as straight as a gun barrel , McMahon found something left in the ‘ Tank ’ and went on to score a snug success . |
| 13 | In spite of innovative work with colour coding ( now entirely dismantled ) by Carey at Hatfield Polytechnic Library in the 1970s where he emphasized that an effective library guiding system was an important prerequisite to any library instruction programme , the subject received little serious attention by libraries until the end of the decade . |
| 14 | But Malcolm Morley , although born in England , is an American painter , and in many respects Hockney became one in the 1960s though he 's now living with the French masters in a Côte d'Azur of his own imagining . |
| 15 | But a day had come in the Sixties when he was in one of the elephant houses and was staring up at an elephant as it walked neurotically round and round its tiny area when a sudden memory of some of the places he had been kept in during the war had come to him ; no space , no freedom , no life . |
| 16 | He digs his bed up in the stable if he 's too warm and digs great holes in his field . |
| 17 | Parenthetically , erm he says somewhere in his autobiography that the one thing that consoled him in the nineteen-hundreds when he was so miserable with his wife and his mathematics , was the devising of , was the devising of prose rhythms . |
| 18 | In the first as he stood at the mouth of the cave , a typhoon burst on the mountainside , bringing rocks crashing down . |
| 19 | After a hard-hitting first round in which both boxers traded body punches , the initiative ebbed away from Hopper in the second as he allowed himself to be drawn into a slugging match instead of using his jab . |
| 20 | had been a student here back in the seventies before he was expelled for getting drunk . |
| 21 | The Guildhall — Victorian Gothic at its best ; built by Edward Godwin in the 1860's when he was only 28 . |
| 22 | He would not survive in the open if he had no strength . |
| 23 | Such studies are exemplified by the work of Professor K.W. Butzer on areas in the Middle East and in the Mediterranean where he reconstructed stages of landscape change as related to Quaternary stratigraphy and indicative of changing Quaternary climates . |
| 24 | The huge leap forward had taken place in the eighties when he had used junk bonds to enlarge his empire at a fantastic pace — until suddenly it was realized in the States that Hauser controlled the largest private financial institution in the republic . |
| 25 | I can not understand why he referred to poor growth performance in the 1980s unless he thinks that it is poor to have grown faster than France and Germany . |
| 26 | Mr Hussein was embraced by the West in the 1980s because he was trying to contain the mad mullahs across the border ; all else was ignored . |
| 27 | On the first day he announced his new sponsorship deal with Everest — a return to the firm who supported him in the 70's when he rode for the Edgar yard . |
| 28 | Homer sees The Committee as having a tremendous chance in the National if he stays out of trouble . |
| 29 | ‘ I think he will take all the beating in the National for he ran well round Aintree two years ago when he was second . |
| 30 | In the split-second when he had first mentioned marriage , Ashley had harboured the giddy irrational notion that he might next be going to say he loved her . |