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 ? |