Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was chosen for Word after he showed programme bosses a reel of wacky interviews he had done — including one with me . |
| 2 | In a series of striking phrases he described a theory of emotional development which highlights the role of the ‘ ordinary devoted mother ’ in providing a facilitating environment as the basis for growth and development and for later emotional stability . |
| 3 | The order came at the end of the summer term and , just as the holidays were beginning , the teacher who was going to replace my father arrived to see what kind of strange specimens he was going to land among and what sort of house he and his family were going to live in . |
| 4 | By then it will be clear whether Ian Lang , the Scottish Secretary , intends to proceed with water privatisation , one of eight options he is examining . |
| 5 | And holding up his pad of fixed-penalty tickets he went on , ‘ You 're also under pressure to give out a certain amount of these things ’ ( FN 17/12/87 , p. 25 ) . |
| 6 | Conducting a graduate seminar on the unpromising topic of textual variants he would hold the room spellbound for two hours by his unforced erudition . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's only one blind tee shot ; everything is in view , ’ said Johnny , who drew on his recollection of memorable holes he faced as a Tour player in the 1960s . |
| 8 | Barnard inherited a large fortune from his father : over a period of fifty years he devoted himself to the formation of a collection of prints , drawings , and paintings , becoming one of the foremost connoisseurs of his day . |
| 9 | For all the choice of possible brides he may have had , William picked one very near home indeed : when he married in 1872 at St James , Clerkenwell , it was to his own cousin , Mary Ann Keziah Parkes , daughter of James Parkes , brass-rule maker — himself the brother of William 's mother Elizabeth . |
| 10 | Grabbing a handful of fresh cartridges he began to reload the shotgun , fumbling a couple of times in his new-found haste . |
| 11 | Sir Alf Ramsey included David as substitute in his England Under 23 side against Wales at Swansea on l November 1967 , but Palace fans of the period will contend that David was worthy of further honours He eventually left us for orient in August 1973 ; his departure was regretted by the fans , who had always held this likeable young man in immense respect and affection . |
| 12 | The ‘ spontaneity ’ , ‘ improvisation ’ and ‘ personalized ’ interpretations of popular singers he explains in terms of a combination of pseudo-individualism , fake immediacy ( part of the false veneer of ‘ art ’ ) and the psychological appeal of the ‘ star ’ . |
| 13 | Finniston admits that being plunged into the deep end of commercial decisions he inevitably made mistakes in the early stages , although he is not prepared to take the blame entirely . |
| 14 | Seb pushed his way through the circle of men and in the dancing light of breeze-blown torches he saw Jacob kneeling on the ground . |
| 15 | To this catalogue of inflectional variations he added a generous number of illustrations of the initial mutations . |
| 16 | Gave me more laughs than any Leeds player especially when under the influence of old frogslegs he began trying to control the ball with his feet . |
| 17 | Already across a wide range of different activities he points to advances in the process of ‘ breaking up , dissolving and methodologically as well as critically reconceiving the unitary field ruled hitherto by Orientalism , historicism , and what could be called essentialist universalism ’ . |
| 18 | When Galileo compared the rate of fall of different materials he was attempting to answer a fundamental question : he wanted to know whether the gravitational attraction on different materials was the same . |
| 19 | Sonny has a number of different slides he uses for different occasions . |
| 20 | In an area of 300 acres he catalogued : This was a sober assessment , and resolution of the ‘ beautiful ’ problem was far from easy . |
| 21 | John Douglas found himself charged with behaviour likely to lead to a breach of the peace as a result of some remarks he is said to have made at a meeting in Rathfriland . |
| 22 | Discussing the ‘ use-values ’ of cultural commodities he has written : |
| 23 | Not only that , but in the place of real scientists he had been lumbered with a no-hoper and a child . |
| 24 | Joe was in the spearhead but John also wrote of amazing scenes he witnessed as his company moved through the countryside . |
| 25 | Opinion polls show Labour back in the lead on course for a nine seat John Major unveils the Tories ’ 39 steps to education reform claiming they will achieve higher Roy Hattersley , on a visit to Darlington , pledged to give Durham 's Chief Constable the number of extra bobbies he Darlington Tory candidate Michael Fallon claimed a Newcastle-based regional assembly , as proposed by Labour , would harm the town . |
| 26 | He had gargled-with a powerfully pepperminted , snake-green wash , and , with a pair of tiny scissors he carried on his Swiss Army penknife , had cut the hairs in his nose . |
| 27 | After one of early games he was approached by a strange looking character who proposed a meeting ‘ which would be to your advantage , senor ’ . |
| 28 | Waddington stated in a written parliamentary reply on April 4 , 1990 , that following his study of such documents he had concluded that the removal had been based on straightforward facts . |
| 29 | Also , there is generally no need to assume facts that go clean beyond those given in the problem : had the examiner wanted a discussion of such facts he would have inserted them himself . |
| 30 | At the end of such evenings he found his own bed alone , walking through blackened courts where once Saracen climbers had run with fire among the poisoned and the dying . |