Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] his [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Allison will be assisting manager Denis Rofe on a consultancy basis from later this week , returning to the Twerton Park ground where he began his managerial career 29 years ago with Bath City .
2 George , who had two sisters and a brother , attended a private day-school in Eltham and at the age of thirteen entered the Royal Arsenal , where he continued his basic education whilst gaining valuable practical experience .
3 ‘ So Billy Tuckett gets badly scared and starts running for where he thinks his old friend Lucy Scarrott lives . ’
4 Leavis 's reputation as a crabbed stylist and boldly innovative thinker who had been rejected by a university where he spent his entire life was largely a figment of his own mind , and so much of his post-war life was devoted to mythologising his own career that it is difficult , by now , to recognise what a conventional figure in his place and day he always was .
5 He never brought his friends to the house and she had never known where he spent his spare time .
6 With this he faced the world , soon gravitating to Soho and the French pub , where he spent his last pennies .
7 Nervously he ran through the palace to the room , where he kept his magic lamp — rubbing furiously , he summoned the genie !
8 He eventually joined the Ed Dubois design office where he met his current business partner Richard Lovett while they were working on two Admiral 's Cup yachts , Formidable and Promotion in 1982/83 .
9 He had been the one to persuade her brother , an alcoholic and addict , to flee New Orleans for the sobriety of the Midwest , where he kicked his bad habit .
10 Hendry , who defeated James Wattana 9-5 , captured snooker 's biggest prize of the season so far , a cheque for £110,000 , as well as being given the gold-plated trophy as a memento of his outstanding record at the London venue , where he stretched his unbeaten record to 20 successive victories .
11 He was a choirboy at St Paul 's Cathedral , where he had his first starring role , leading a processional , picked to do so , he believed , ‘ because I looked such a cherub ’ .
12 In his first 13 tournaments — up until the Swiss Open — he had only slipped over par in one event — the French Open where he missed his only cut — and he had seven top-10 finishes .
13 He has a little scullery down there , where he cooks his mad grub .
14 Now I do n't know if you remember English Whites but Danny Baker once had a caller to 606 who claimed to have been setup for a blind date a few years ago , and when he met the girl in question , one of his mates says ‘ Bloody hell she does n't half look like that player ( Kenny ) who 's in the Blues ’ ( Brum City where he built his stout reputation ) .
15 A wealthy and handsome ‘ man of many parts ’ , he owned considerable property in Funchal and designed his own town house ( the large house , with a tower , which the Madeira Wine Institute now occupies ) and his favourite country residence , Quinta do Jardim da Serra , where he built his own mausoleum and was buried .
16 This season his form was confirmed , appropriately enough , against Neath at the Gnoll , where he demonstrated his main assets of speed off the mark and eye for an opening .
17 The rents seem low , but when one considers that Mayhew 's seller of songs with a dependent wife earned less than 10s. a week and sometimes less than 5s. , it is easy to see why he might cling to his far from model room , where he has his own ‘ bits and sticks ’ , even at an exorbitant rent of 2s. 3d .
18 However , it is as an active patron of architecture that Hope is best known , where he used his immense wealth to provide the tangible realization of his Gothic aspirations .
19 He was educated at Cardiff Intermediate ( later High ) School , where he showed his academic paces , winning four distinctions in the senior honours certificate of the Central Welsh Board at seventeen .
20 He distrusts Szilard , and insists that Robert Oppenheimer ( David Strathaim ) leads the scientists , although he suspects his Leftist views .
21 Like Cantona , Wright was also a spectator , although he had his full kit on .
22 Although he spent his early career teaching , including seven years as a headmaster , he moved into management consultancy work at the beginning of the 1960s , using a variety of selection firms on behalf of his clients .
23 One of the officials with whom I had dealings was John Hampden , who years later was to become a colleague ; but although he did his best to be co-operative , it was the men who held the purse-strings that counted , and , going between the MOI and Faber 's , I could not extract from officialdom any commitment and Eliot naturally needed certain specific undertakings regarding finance before Faber 's could think of commissioning a book , which also needed the Ministry 's imprimatur .
24 He had never liked Marler , although he recognized his great ability .
25 Yep it was against Chelsea or Arse , although he commited his fair share of blunders he was supposed to be ( I was around when he was ) a decent keeper .
26 He did n't let it affect him for too long , although he put his second into the bunker at the 10th .
27 Although he broke his regular Saturday habit and failed to score , two of Hughie 's former Bellshill school friends , Alex James and Alex Jackson , scored five goals in a breathtaking display of unfettered football , magically achieved by a forward line of five irrepressible midgets who will be forever etched in the history of Scottish football as ‘ The Wembley Wizards ’ .
28 ( 4 ) Where a lessor is proceeding by action or otherwise to enforce a right of re-entry or forfeiture under any covenant , proviso , or stipulation in a lease , or for non-payment of rent , the court may , on application by any person claiming as an under-lessee any estate or interest in the property comprised in the lease or any part thereof , either in the lessor 's action ( if any ) or in any action brought by such person for that purpose , make an order vesting , for the whole term of the lease or any less term , the property comprised in the lease , or any part thereof in any person entitled as under-lessee to any estate or interest in such property upon such conditions as to execution of any deed or other document , payment of rent , costs , expenses , damages , compensation , giving security , or otherwise , as the court in the circumstances of each case may think fit , but in no case shall any such under-lessee be entitled to require a lease to be granted to him for any longer term than he had his original sub-lease .
29 ‘ In five days , ’ said Harvey when we were outside the cubicle , ‘ we can indoctrinate a man so that he really believes his cover story better than he believes his own memory .
30 They were fortunately innocent of the fact that Monet charged them some 60 per cent more than he charged his fellow countrymen .
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