Example sentences of "he [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Is he about the right age to have worked with Mills ? ’
2 He as a fabulous showman , the Cecil B De Mille of the dinner party trail , equally happy embracing Henry Kissinger or Liza Minnelli or Andy Warhol or Elizabeth Taylor — who was one of the more celebrated of his many lovers .
3 Few more unfortunate poets can be imagined than W.H. Davies , yet there was no one more cheerful than he as an old man .
4 Where was he during the past year 's review of the telecoms industry ?
5 As you can see it was a three way tie between ‘ Judas ’ Jordan , Pisshead , and he of the stylish shirtcollar .
6 Johnny Dee , he of the flat-top skull and map-reading talents , wandered amongst the flaming buildings in search of a cab .
7 Of course , it is purely coincidental that to help other mothers and brides-to-be , we also consulted Harry Dodson , he of The Victorian Kitchen Garden fame , to find out which flowers a Victorian country bride would have picked to decorate the church and make her bouquet .
8 Mark Tansey , he of the sly sense of humour , has often explored landscapes , sometimes building them up from what appear to be lines of typography .
9 The patron saint of Tui is San Télmo , he of the blue discharge on pointed objects in electric storms , and from the cathedral you have a tranquil view over the Mińo to Valença in Portugal , to where we walked for lunch across the iron bridge built by Eiffel .
10 Now aged seventy-four I have lived the past fifty years within hailing distance of Earl Grey 's monument : he of the 1832 Reform Act .
11 We camp Lappish style in a lavvu that Tor , he of the wall-to-wall shoulders , has paddled here on his deck .
12 So certain was he of the Huge Reward that he was feeling unusually generous .
13 Bryant , he of the slicked hair , spectacles , mouthful of teeth and curly pipe , was 21 when he won his first county title and first played for England in 1958 .
14 Vote for Huggett ( 1948 ) , for example , shows the family patriarch played by Jack Warner making a stand against a corrupt local councillor , then with the he of the local youth club and three eccentric old ladies , exposing the property transactions that stand in the way of a lido and public garden being built to serve the local community .
15 The press saw in Jean Lecanuet — he of the white teeth , flashing smile , youthful appearance , centrist and pro-US ‘ Atlanticist ’ policies — a French J. F. Kennedy ; Mitterrand , the left FGDS candidate , was perceived as stilted and ill-at-ease . ’
16 William and Mary Ann were there in all their glory , as we might expect : he with a spotted waistcoat and flamboyant flowery buttonhole , she with an expanse of fur on her head and around her shoulders .
17 The air was full of sounds — the jangle of reins or goat bells , noises — could they travel so far ? — of parties making for , perhaps already on , the lake ready to take advantage of the promised full moon , dog barkings , cow lowings , sheep , horses : the town and its fjords of fields was as restless as he with the hidden cries of the night .
18 Is he under a fiduciary obligation to disclose to shareholders with whom he intends to trade , the fact that he holds inside information ?
19 was he in a good mood ?
20 You 've got to make it the beginning and the end see what comes up looked it up or anything , thought erm he 's showing her what the younger generation , you know , are erm treating each other is n't he in a romantic way erm there 's not much romantic practice in the older generation is there , a bit more affection based on intimate knowledge of each other that sort of thing .
21 Was he in a bad temper when he got up again ?
22 Is he in a bad mood ?
23 They went out , he in a white suit , and he told her they were going to shoot pool .
24 First they were based on an ‘ Age Participation Rate ’ ( APR ) defined as ‘ the number of young home initial full time and sandwich entrants to HE in a given year expressed as a percentage of the 18 year old population ’ .
25 This would have been a stage towards the best-remembered dance sequence in the film , prominently featured in That 's Entertainment ! ( 1974 ) , when they go ‘ Dancing In The Dark ’ in a fantasy Central Park , she in a pleated white skirt and flat shoes , he in a light sport jacket and slacks , just as they 've come from rehearsal .
26 Last season Ian gained full International honours , completed his century of Palace goals to join the select group of just five men to have achieved that feat for us since the club 's foundation back in 1905 , and scored twice as Palace beat Everton 4–2 to win the Zenith Data Systems Cup Final at Wembley , while his virtuoso hat-trick , scored in just eighteen minutes during the second half of Palace 's penultimate game of 1990–91 , at Wimbledon , demonstrated in magnificent style that when Ian is on form there is no more dangerous or exciting player than he in the entire Football League .
27 ‘ Is n't he in the right place for it ?
28 In this case D is clearly asking a price for his promise but is he in the former case ?
29 Is n't he in the British Government or something ? ’
30 Is he in the fourth year ?
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