Example sentences of "he [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is he about the right age to have worked with Mills ? ’ |
| 2 | Where was he during the past year 's review of the telecoms industry ? |
| 3 | As you can see it was a three way tie between ‘ Judas ’ Jordan , Pisshead , and he of the stylish shirtcollar . |
| 4 | Johnny Dee , he of the flat-top skull and map-reading talents , wandered amongst the flaming buildings in search of a cab . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So certain was he of the Huge Reward that he was feeling unusually generous . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Is n't he in the right place for it ? |
| 14 | In this case D is clearly asking a price for his promise but is he in the former case ? |
| 15 | Is n't he in the British Government or something ? ’ |
| 16 | Is he in the fourth year ? |
| 17 | ‘ Is he in the Swift office today ? |
| 18 | he to the managing director that I was in the office with a very serious complaint . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | For as he increases the number of categories in terms of which phenomena are to be explained , he at the same time multiplies the number of relations between them ; and since each factor is in some way dependent on a large number of others , the resulting range of possible variations is immense . |
| 21 | But so seized was he by the divine knowledge , so ‘ evangelistically ’ fixed with its potency , that his exploits on its behalf quickly created his legend . |