Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contractor is paid for the actual costs he incurs plus a previously agreed lump sum for his overheads and profit . |
| 2 | Bettinson , a director of education in Stockport , had booked an appointment with his superior yesterday to ask for the unpaid leave he would have needed to complete the tour of Papua New Guinea and New Zealand next summer . |
| 3 | Bettinson , a director of education in Stockport , had booked an appointment with his superior yesterday to ask for the unpaid leave he would have needed to complete the tour of Papua New Guinea and New Zealand next summer . |
| 4 | Mr Lauder made use of the track for the diving business he runs , Lord Coulsfield said in a judgment issued yesterday . |
| 5 | Moving silently up behind him , she hesitantly touched his back and was quite unprepared for the violent start he gave . |
| 6 | Siward had merely killed his wife 's uncle , as Carl Thorbrandsson had already killed his wife 's father , and had joined thereby the bloody brethren of kinsmen whose lethal manoeuvrings had kept him busy for the twelve years he had now held the earldom . |
| 7 | Newcastle employed him at Claremont , Surrey ( 1752 ) , and as chancellor of Cambridge University secured his employment to design the university library ( 1754–8 ) ; while for the second duke he worked at Clumber House , Nottinghamshire ( 1768–78 , demolished ) , and designed the bridge in Newark in the same county ( 1775 ) . |
| 8 | For the second word he looked gormless and drew a circle over his head . |
| 9 | A packed City Hall did not have long to wait as Lewis roared in with several more stinging rights and left hooks and when Garber was floored for the second time he had no chance of beating the count . |
| 10 | As Nathan pulled away for the second time he could hear Lumberjack in the kitchen , frantically sawing the legs off tables and chairs . |
| 11 | He did so by wandering the streets , and when for the second time he passed the food office where she worked , he knew what he was going to do . |
| 12 | For the second time he ignored an insult . |
| 13 | For the second time he should have said no , and for the second time he did n't . |
| 14 | For the second time he should have said no , and for the second time he did n't . |
| 15 | For the second time he made his way out of the pit , and the others followed . |
| 16 | He saw Madra fighting with her reins , hair wild ; then a face out of a nightmare lunged up at him , and for the second time he confronted the tusked maw of a grypesh . |
| 17 | In fact , with his book of Spanish Civil War photographs , for the second edition he did not want them retouched ; he wanted the scratches , etc , left in because there was that feeling about it . |
| 18 | As I reached for the fallen picture he said to me , ‘ That door 's gooin' ter fall off its 'inges one of these times . ’ |
| 19 | The unattainable ideal woman was to become something of an obsession for Rider Haggard , idealised but hardly ideal , for the strange being he introduced in She was both good and evil , goddess and witch . |
| 20 | No music and the bar 's only open for the minimum time he can get away with . |
| 21 | Apparently during the First World War some professor erm was using a bunsen burner and he burned himself quite badly and by him he just happ he just happened to have some lavender oil essential and for the nearest thing he put his hand in there and apparently it was supposed to have calmed it down and it healed very quickly . |
| 22 | it was for men that he felt the hot , flushing , roused attraction which a man is supposed to feel for the other sex … the male physique had a fascination for him , and for the female physique he felt only a fondness … |
| 23 | An award winning scientist paralysed by a wasting disease may be forced to give up his research … because he ca n't afford to pay for the round-the-clock nursing he needs . |
| 24 | All of Ferdinando 's wages went to Ellen , save for the smallest amount he kept for his personal pleasure . |
| 25 | PRESIDENT Bill Clinton journeyed to the mid-West yesterday as a salesman for the economic plan he describes as ‘ necessary for the continued greatness of the United States ’ . |
| 26 | So unilateralism says Mr. O'Brian must not be made to pay damages for the emotional injury he caused Mrs. McLoughlin even though the judge thinks the opposite rule would be better for the future . |
| 27 | For the former award he had offered his work under the title ‘ The Sparrows : Thoughts Of A Landsman ’ , which was divided into four parts : |
| 28 | ‘ Mr. Green finding it industriously circulated that he has entirely given up his intention of completing his survey , conceives himself for the liberal patronage he has experienced under the obligation of informing his subscribers that so far from relinquishing it , the Plan is three fourths finished , and that he intends laying aside all his other occupations to appropriate the ensuing half-year , from Christmas to midsummer , solely to that work , about which time , as part of it will very early in spring be put into the hands of able engravers , he hopes to complete it . |
| 29 | ‘ Stella , ’ he called again , as if asking for the only person he needed . |
| 30 | He may be ill from the voyage , he may be homesick for the only home he has known , he may be … ’ |