Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 On the morning of 19 April , Kadir Kurt was detained in Birk village , district of Bismail near Diyarbakir , and taken for interrogation to the Gendarmerie Battalion Headquarters where he died the same night .
2 Minns brought a broad range of expertise to bear on a field extending from eastern Europe to China , while at the same time paying close attention to the antiquities and books of his own college , where he occupied the same rooms over a period of fifty-five years as undergraduate , fellow , president ( 1928–49 ) , and senior fellow .
3 Blake Morrison will be literary editor ; he also leaves the Observer , where he held the same position .
4 Andrew might also consider it a useful opportunity to further his England captaincy claims , for which he has a growing number of supporters — although he expresses no such wish , since his old school-mate , Will Carling , currently holds the job .
5 Horacio Bento Gouveia 's writings include romantic novels set in Madeira and , although he died a few years ago now , he remains the best known of Madeiran writers .
6 And although he wrote no fewer than twelve String Quartets between the ages of fourteen and nineteen , as well as a set of Variations for String Quartet Op. 93 , these two are Rheinberger 's only two mature works for a medium in which he obviously felt very much at home .
7 Midway through 1906–07 Archie was deployed at right-back in the Palace line-ups , although he had a few outings on the right wing , and he played throughout our fabulous progress to the FA Cup quarter-finals .
8 Although he frightened a few old ladies though !
9 So he had a few puffs before he grabbed her round the neck and got on with the job … ’
10 The delay gave Uncle Fred breathing space , so he packed a few things , walked the four miles into Salisbury , caught the train to Portsmouth and joined the Marines .
11 WEIGHT ON HIS MIND : Paul Merson ( left ) has a fat chance of making George Graham 's Arsenal team until he sheds a few pounds
12 This remained only a vague idea until he read the same Soviet paper from the 1970s as Chatterjee had seen and which dealt with the abundance of helium-3 and helium-4 in minerals .
13 I used to work with him in my mother 's shop — he worked there for twenty-five years , until he died a few years ago .
14 She knew she was in love with him , but did n't know if he felt the same way about her .
15 If he suffers the same fate as Clark , it could well cost him a place in the squad for the most vital game in Newcastle 's 100-year history .
16 Sanders ca n't be all that interested in the Plan if he takes a few days vacation rather than give the presentation .
17 Even if he looked the same , she could not remember him .
18 But if he borrows the same amount a second time he becomes liable to a second charge .
19 ‘ And I think that if he has a few problems at Liverpool at first , he 'll hang on and try and make things work .
20 If he has no such evidence , does he think that the introduction of Sunday trading in Britain is likely to cause the kind of social and moral breakdown that has been suggested by some advocates of restrictions ?
21 Indeed he would be doing so if he did no more than move an item from one place on a shelf to another .
22 The balance of power must have shifted between them , because he had a few glittering moments of objectivity about her as well as the old nuzzling gratitude of some broken-kneed dray horse .
23 If in refusing , he acted as a reasonable man would have done in the same position , because he entertained the same fears , having regard to the character of the proposed assignee , etc , the real purpose of the assignment , the effect of the assignment on the property or other property of the landlord , etc , the refusal will be upheld as reasonable .
24 Eddie gets the best lines , perhaps because he has the most lines .
25 " Just because he paid a little attention to you to-night , " Jenny said , " you must n't think that .
26 ‘ Just because he won a few stupid car races , ’ she went on , ‘ he seems to think he rules the world !
27 Well football pools are a splendid started because recently somebody has won just over nine hundred thousand pounds , and it 's interesting to note that he did this without exercising too much skill , as I 'm sure he 'd be the first to admit , because he enters the same numbers every week .
28 Perhaps Locke did not recognise the difference because he used the same word , ‘ idea ’ , both for what we would ordinarily call an idea and for what is imprinted in , or on , the mind , the ‘ sensation ’ .
29 While he does the latter , his brother , whose name means " deceit " , trumps him by stealing his trousers from him , much to Travers 's amusement and Haimet 's embarrassment .
30 The Campbells found Hector hardy , which they had expected , and intelligent , which they had n't ; while he found the same thing about them , in reverse ; and they were each surprised to find that-they liked the others well enough , in spite of their ridiculous clothes .
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