Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The solipsist is in the position of claiming that he has a language in which he describes his present and past experiences , and perhaps speculates about the future . |
| 2 | That is the way in which he devised his social charter when he had the ability to make policy at the Department . |
| 3 | Born to salty , honest East End folk — this was hinted at , the script sensibly avoiding the risk of fleshing them out — he had risen in the City to a financial position which permitted him to park his BMW beside the flash docklands flat , close to his rough but pure roots , in which he kept his nice French bird . |
| 4 | From the cupboard beside the screwed-down floor safe , he had taken a mess tin in which he kept his shoe-shining kit . |
| 5 | and he could be pleasantly practical about the craft into which he channelled his surplus energies . |
| 6 | Having travelled the ‘ road from revolutionary elitism to proletarian populism ’ , James ' American sojourn was about to come to an end but , before it did , he would write ‘ Mariners , Renegades and Castaways ’ in which he expressed his poetic view of the world through an interpretation of the works of Herman Melville . |
| 7 | Wyatt answers the charge that he alters his device ( his project and designs but also his heraldic sign — the symbolic means by which he announces his public identity ) by using the analogy of changing seasons to suggest mutability is an inevitable and indeed appropriate condition . |
| 8 | Yes , but unlike Eliot and Empson , Pound — by the abrupt , brusque and aphoristic way in which he delivers his critical judgements — insists that we understand them as immediately spun off from the imaginative work , thrown over his shoulder , as it were , as he hurries from one part of the workshop to another . |
| 9 | He sought my advice on one or two matters where complaints were made against him of alleged libels , which I had no real difficulty in seeing off and about which he wrote me appreciative letters . |
| 10 | Despite the ‘ Rape of the Sabines ’ episode during Christmas 1793 , when a drunken Burns may have overstepped the bounds of propriety towards his hostess , and notwithstanding the lampoons with which he requited his subsequent exile from her house , the intimate friendship that Burns formed with this ‘ really first-rate woman ’ survived its year-long breach . |
| 11 | The example in terms of which he expounds his Cartesian theory of perception is that of eating manna . |
| 12 | However , as I have recorded , Price gave evidence before the magistrate in the course of which he retracted his Swedish evidence in so far as it implicated the applicant . |
| 13 | Morrissey is ‘ half a person ’ , his very being constituted around lack , maladjustment — this is the vantage point from which he launches his impossible demands on life , his denial of the reality principle . |
| 14 | In his October speech to the Conservative Party Conference at Plymouth , in which he announced his new position , he said : |
| 15 | The President of the self-proclaimed " Republic of Kosovo " , Ibrahim Rugova [ for election see p. 38919 ] , held talks in Geneva with Owen and Vance on Sept. 16 , during which he reiterated his fundamental position that Kosovo was to be treated as part of the former Yugoslavia , and not as a province of Serbia . |
| 16 | After other speeches condemning Ian Paisley , Terence O'Neill rose and delivered a long statement in which he made it clear that he regarded the defeat of Ian Paisley as a central part of his reforming Unionism . |
| 17 | The same is true of an hon. Member who sadly left the Labour Benches during the summer recess , George Buckley , whose courage no one could ever fail to admire , especially the way in which he carried his mortal illness . |
| 18 | On instructions from State , the US ambassador in Rome advised him to give a press conference in which he stressed his constitutional rights and the illegality of Mossadeq actions . |
| 19 | This method of Cartesian doubt was the process by which he reached his famous dictum : Cogito ergo sum ( ‘ I think , therefore I am ’ ) . |
| 20 | ‘ Rendre la perception confuse , multiple et simultanée du monde ’ was the title of one of the interviews given to coincide with the publication of Histoire ( 1967 ) , in the course of which he described his narrative strategy in the novel as an attempt to convey , in formal terms , the incoherence of perception and memory . |
| 21 | He was an inventor , and designed quick-selling gadgets which he used his showman-like qualities to retail at the many regional and metropolitan exhibitions being organized in the last quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 22 | Then he noticed a gap in the wire through which he squeezed his vast height , leaving the crutches behind . |
| 23 | Phat was Duclos ' particular favourite among the cai because the ruthless sadism with which he disciplined his fellow coolies was matched by the utter servility he showed to Duclos to ensure he retained both his approval and the necessary stamp of his authority . |
| 24 | The paper also reports on the role of the police , talks to people who make a living out of trivia question machines and has an exclusive interview with Lenny Henry , in which he reveals his top jokes . |
| 25 | When confronted by Sir Humphrey Stafford and other representatives of law and order , in order to challenge legitimacy at its own level Cade ‘ knights ’ himself , and ascends to verse : But he can not sustain his usurped style for very long , soon relapsing to prose , in which he conducts his grotesque inquisition of Lord Say : Say responds in verse , as a true humanist : ‘ Kent , in the Commentaries Caesar writ , /Is term 'd the civill'st place of all this isle ’ ( 60ff . ) . |
| 26 | These include the requirement that on cessation of a business an employer shall pay any Class 1A contribution in respect of the current year within 14 days after the income tax month in which he makes his final payment of earnings to employees . |
| 27 | It is not the first time he has taken his countrymen and women to task for what he considers their cultural failings . |
| 28 | Ask him to write down in a few words what he thinks his present image is , and what he wants his image to be , and he will most likely fail to do it . |
| 29 | Then he went on , to amplify what he called my brave intervention . |
| 30 | Well he , what he has it permed does he then ? |