Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] [subord] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Becker hints at the inside model when he concludes , not without generating some confusion , that ‘ whether a given act is deviant or not depends in part on the nature of the act ( that is , whether or not it violates some rule ) and in part on what other people do about it ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Winterton , could you confirm the guard gave Mr Newman the normal check before he came in here ? ’ |
| 3 | Occasionally , in the interim period while he was still unattached on the side , he talked of consolidating his marriage . |
| 4 | Brunel made the broad gauge because he saw the advantage of stability , and making extra room for passengers |
| 5 | A knot of men stood on the other side of the broad avenue as he walked through the gate . |
| 6 | Certainly from the rapturous reception when he walked on court and the sympathetic response after a performance containing too many embarrassingly bad moments , Borg can rightly claim that people still want to see him play . |
| 7 | They were sitting alongside each other in the half-empty aircraft before he could protest . |
| 8 | He summoned his courage and said so to the grim-faced man before he left the sick room . |
| 9 | A former British and European light-welterweight champion , Barrett has now asked the British Boxing Board of Control to name him as challenger to Gary Jacobs for the British welterweight championship and Ludovic Proto for the European title before he considers a second world title . |
| 10 | MARK JAMES ( right ) enjoyed another red letter day on the European Tour when he scored his second victory of the season here in Tenerife . |
| 11 | Montgomerie now takes a five-week break from the European circuit as he awaits the birth of his first child next weekend . |
| 12 | Creaney , brought up on legends of the Lisbon Lions side who won the European Cup before he was born , is due to play his first full match in Europe when Celtic take on Cologne in the UEFA Cup first round first leg in Germany this week . |
| 13 | Lord Young , a former trade secretary , deliberately and seriously misled both Parliament and the European Commission when he pushed through the 1988 sale of Rover to British Aerospace , concluded an inquiry by a Commons select committee . |
| 14 | A Lancashire miner 's daughter , whose grandmother ‘ was very sprightly , very clean … very like prigmeat , you know , everything in its place ’ , remembers how one of her brothers moved into the next-door house when he married , and ‘ they helped with them when they were older . ’ |
| 15 | But the irony is that a human being , with all his potential capacity for understanding , is actually so cut off from his fellow humans that a plant sometimes has better perceptions at the subtle level than he has ! |
| 16 | ‘ Major Bagshot accompanied Bonzo to the 15th green where he found a ball and a complete set of Henry Cotton ‘ St Andrew 's ’ clubs lying , abandoned . |
| 17 | It is not open to Mr Tillson subsequently to say that he had no need of a tenancy of the occupied land because he already had a possessory title which gave him a freehold interest in that land … |
| 18 | The physical and emotional violence McBurney brings to the tormented king as he rages among the toys in his young son 's nursery has the sickening impact of a kick in the solar plexus . |
| 19 | His voice was the merest whisper as he stared down the landing towards a particular door , his mind imagining the two people behind it ; two people he resented beyond words . |
| 20 | And then he was gone down the stairs , running lightly , for all his limp , and the last which she saw of him was the sandy-blond head before he turned the corner of the first landing . |
| 21 | In response Fujimori criticised Amnesty International and the United States human rights body Americas Watch for failing to denounce the activities of Sendero Luminoso or human rights violations in the eight years before he came to power . |
| 22 | The drum grew louder in the final roll , the flautists blew steadily , keying up anticipation , and the rattle fell silent as Dulé took one step with his other foot and left the ground , then hand over hand into the air shinned up the free-standing ladder till he alighted at the tenth rung and hung there like a heron on a breakwater at home , it seemed to Kit , even as he asked himself in wonder , what unearthly magic 's here ? |
| 23 | The Sergeant wound down the window , and now they could hear the clamouring questions as he showed the policeman his ID . |
| 24 | Beginning with the organisation of bible classes in the rural communities while he was still a student at Cumberland University , he became disillusioned with the apparent inability of the current educational system to tackle adequately the problems of social and economic mis-development in Appalachia . |
| 25 | I said he 's my father and then he falls out the fucking bed when they put him in it because they admit negligence , they forgot to put the cot side up , dad has got lack of oxygen to his bra brain , he thought it was the Battle of Hastings going on but they said there was nobody there , well surely they must have known Joy he fell out the bloody bed because he 's laying like this and he 's falling and he 's falling and bang come out , he split all his bloody head open , do you know the blood was there from the night he fell out , he fell out at half past ten at night and they never informed us , which is against the law and the blood still sat there at quarter to four the following day , all over the floor , he 's got a bloody stitch in his head which they done to him while he were in the bed , and ripped three tubes out of his arm , split all his bloody arm open |
| 26 | ‘ My ole man got upset an' 'e told me ter get rid o' the bloody fing before 'e got 'ome from work ternight. 'E works on the trams , yer see , ’ the woman explained . |
| 27 | Yanto cycled on down the wharf , dodging the mooring ropes until he arrived at the berth of a small Norwegian timber boat called ‘ Marit , ’ registered in Oslo . |
| 28 | 4 Danny packs oranges that are just the right size so he can get 38 in a box . |
| 29 | ‘ The motivation has to come from within and he also needs to take the right approach when he 's away from Anfield , ’ he added . |
| 30 | Through Ed , who , she thought had the right contacts because he was a man , they went to the Roundhouse that night . |