Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] [noun sg] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was incorporated by the architect , Alexander Skirving , into a private dwelling house he was building in Langside Avenue . |
| 2 | In a few seconds time he might be face to face with the man who had killed Daniel . |
| 3 | ‘ Like a bleedin' patchwork quilt 'e was , by the time they finished stitchin' 'im up . ’ |
| 4 | The deference of his courtiers did nothing for this — that was a piece from a different jigsaw puzzle he had already solved . |
| 5 | These properties of V4 cells only appear , however , as long as a large part of the scene is illuminated and the scene contains more than one coloured area , which Zeki achieves using a multicoloured stimulus array he calls a Mondrian . |
| 6 | When Howell picks him up at dawn on a deserted Texan highway he immediately makes his intentions plain by scaring the boy witless . |
| 7 | Only five feet seven tall , he spoke in a high pitched drawl , a public school accent he often emphasized abroad . |
| 8 | From a public phone booth he called Otto Kuhlmann who answered immediately . |
| 9 | If someone touched him from behind on a crowded Saturday night he would push himself back onto the anonymous hand , just like a cat would , without turning round to see who it was . |
| 10 | On a crowded traffic way he 'd have been dead in under a minute but the barren landscape of this world offered little in the way of obstacles and the vehicle seemed able to right itself over the irregular peaks that occasionally reared unexpectedly out of the mists . |
| 11 | In describing a future coalition government he promised that ‘ we will not give representatives of the other side just two or three armchairs ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ In coming to his friend 's assistance so soon after he himself had suffered a serious heart attack he put his health at risk . ’ |
| 13 | But likely to be ruled out of the action is full-back Keith Proctor , who has suffered a reaction to his first game back after a six-week injury lay-off he played for the reserves last weekend and is now likely to have to see a specialist about his troublesome knee . |
| 14 | But likely to be ruled out of the action is fullback Keith Proctor , who has suffered a reaction to his first game back after a six-week injury lay-off he played for the reserves last weekend and is now likely to have to see a specialist about his troublesome knee . |
| 15 | After first of all declining to write for the series , Nation eventually agreed after a row with his former employer , comedian Tony Hancock , left him with no income to pay for a central heating system he was having installed at home . |
| 16 | It was not a whistle that could have come from human lips , but a chilling scalpel shriek he had heard only once before in the Fifth Dominion , when , some two hundred years past , his then possessor , the Maestro Sartori , had conjured from the In Ovo a familiar which had made such a whistle . |
| 17 | It reminded him of a veined glass marble he had once owned as a boy . |
| 18 | However , notice need not be given where the defendant does not appear , or where in a fixed date action he has failed to deliver a defence in time . |
| 19 | When Nails had the refrigerator factory to himself on a warm summer evening he felt amazingly content . |
| 20 | With a large pocket handkerchief he wiped the perspiration from his forehead ; it was getting hot . |
| 21 | On a rapid return journey he took the catch of the series so far in his right glove while airborne . |
| 22 | He was also the inventor of a pornographic card game he called ‘ Dirty Banshee ’ which included a pack of cards showing satyrs and goddesses enjoying a variety of sexual encounters . |
| 23 | He obstinately remained there even when his anger had subsided , and read morning and evening prayers from a little shilling book he had with him , thinking at the same time ‘ with inward & gloomy satisfaction ’ how miserable his mother must be . |
| 24 | The only way into his protective case was through a little trap door he kept locked night and day . |
| 25 | ‘ As a little bully boy he calls in big brother to do the beating up for him . ’ |
| 26 | Well Tony , was who manager at the associated now , er he was very a very popular player , he was a goal scorer on one occasion , they played an away match at Swindon and he scored a goal and the goalkeeper got sent off a John so Tony went in goal and he saved a penalty later in the match , but he was a very popular player he was a a good goal scorer then there was Colin he , he had one of the hardest shots in the league you know , I 've , I 've seen the goalkeeper shrug his shoulders at , at defenders and say well how do you stop those , they used to call him Cannonball at one time , and er there was Tommy he had his collarbone broken and he never played again after , but he was a great centre forward he used to make a lot of space for the other forwards you know . |
| 27 | A brilliant history student he was a devout Christian and the son of a Singapore MP . |
| 28 | Like a good Renaissance poet he replies that this is the principle of decorum ; his form merely recreates his subject-matter : We are inclined to smile at the self-depreciation , as we are at the similar joke in 105 : He has no need for other forms , other themes . |
| 29 | Although a useful county cricketer he will be remembered as one of the greatest county captains of all time . |
| 30 | But Mr Bentine does have his good points — apart from a chuckling delivery style he did not learn by listening to voice-overs on Horizon . |