Example sentences of "he [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | So certain was he of the Huge Reward that he was feeling unusually generous . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Is he under a fiduciary obligation to disclose to shareholders with whom he intends to trade , the fact that he holds inside information ? |
| 16 | was he in a good mood ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Was he in a bad temper when he got up again ? |
| 19 | Is he in a bad mood ? |
| 20 | They went out , he in a white suit , and he told her they were going to shoot pool . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Is n't he in the right place for it ? |
| 25 | In this case D is clearly asking a price for his promise but is he in the former case ? |
| 26 | Is n't he in the British Government or something ? ’ |
| 27 | Is he in the fourth year ? |
| 28 | ‘ Is he in the Swift office today ? |
| 29 | he to the managing director that I was in the office with a very serious complaint . |
| 30 | Could he on the other hand have borne to consign them all to Hell for ever , like Alcuin , the deacon of York , in a now notorious letter to the abbot of Lindisfarne , written about AD 797 : ‘ What has Ingeld to do with Christ ? ’ he asked scornfully — Ingeld being a minor character in Beowulf . |