Example sentences of "he [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Industry bargaining was also preferable to employers in Italy since it allowed their associations to maintain a tight control on bargaining activities whilst at the same time freeing the individual employer from direct impact with the union — yet giving him ample leeway to influence his employees from outside union channels ( Treu , 1981 ) . |
| 2 | These Imperial durbars were Inayat Khan 's favourite material , giving him ample occasion to tug his forelock and fill the pages of the Shah Jehan Nama with paeans to the generosity of his Imperial paymaster . |
| 3 | The debtor remains in a sense owner ; he has a new sort of equitable ownership , ‘ an equity of redemption ’ , which he is only to lose after the court has given him ample opportunity to repay , and it becomes plain to the court that he can not or will not pay . |
| 4 | With luck Vic and Emily should be gone several hours , giving him ample time to search for evidence and be back at the white house long before they returned . |
| 5 | It gave him ample time to check the house . |
| 6 | This gave him ample opportunities to put the British case . |
| 7 | Mother Benedicta had told him that Topaz loved him . |
| 8 | Oh you saw him that day did n't you ? |
| 9 | I hardly know what I meant to do — confront him , accuse him , bring it home to him that hellfire awaited him at the reckoning if he did not confess his sin and pay the price of it now . ’ |
| 10 | The children who were with him that night said that you could hear his screams three blocks away . |
| 11 | But the fire in her body when she lay in bed thinking of him that night warned her that she had to be strong or she would n't be able to reject him if he tried again . |
| 12 | Edward was eager to see and to understand the precise nature and functioning of female anatomy and physiology ; Helen , with equal insistence on their purity of motive and the intense trust in him that love had given her , was surprised by joy , sustained by daydreams of their future Eden together , and fired by his frank letters with their confessions of his adolescent fight against erections , nocturnal emissions , and occasional masturbation . |
| 13 | May I remind him that inflation has come down from 10.9 to 3.7 per cent. , that interest rates have been cut by 4.5 percentage points and that we have the lowest level of inflation for 25 years — below that of west Germany . |
| 14 | Bush made his statement after receiving a CIA report in mid-February , which had informed him that Israeli claims that under 1 per cent of Soviet immigrants were being settled in the " occupied territories " was only partly true , because a further 10 per cent were being placed in settlements in East Jerusalem . |
| 15 | Mark could hardly believe his ears when , two days before the EPC meeting , Muldoon told him that Nate wanted him to fly out to Istanbul right away . |
| 16 | But his experiences of street life in Hackney and his boxing ventures in Bethnal Green taught him that blackness presented him with a unique set of problems . |
| 17 | Nicholson will be glad when he can remove for the last time the putty nose , hairpiece and false front tooth the make-up wizards gave him each day to make him a mirror-image of bully-boy Hoffa . |
| 18 | Terry Wogan became so absorbed with her that he ran the interview into the closing music , leaving him scant time to promote his next programme — very unusual . |
| 19 | It took him eight years to recreate the lesson of nature . |
| 20 | Becky Boo , come on find daddy this way , find him this way go on , ooh sorry she 's going down each aisle and shouting dad . |
| 21 | His instincts finally rang the bell and told him this man had more than a casual interest in what might be going on downstairs . |
| 22 | ‘ My conversation with him this evening made me realise that he can be quite devious , and also that he has a rather cruel sense of humour . |
| 23 | For him this convenience has been largely a negative factor for he thought of America as offering no other comparable diversion ; there were ‘ no beer gardens — no public concerts ’ and the question he asked was ‘ Who wants to sit at home and play bridge every night ? ’ |
| 24 | Yeah , I saw , I passed him this morning going down to the garage with some wood |
| 25 | The appointment by the incoming Labour government of the Macmillan Committee , of which Keynes was a member , gave him another chance to carry through his revolution in policy . |
| 26 | No doubt something else had diverted his attention , and afforded him another cue to spread confusion everywhere around him . |
| 27 | No , they would simply tell him again to mind his own business and send him another note composed of gibberish . |
| 28 | Congress had granted him another amnesty to contest the 1992 election . |
| 29 | We can ask him some questions to start his mind thinking and remembering . |
| 30 | You know because if you are going to ask an employer to enter into a contract between the between an individual employee , then really you 've got to give him some advantages to do that and I think that er I do n't know what the figures are or the number of final salary pension schemes that have been launched in the last couple of years , but I should think it be , be quite few and I think that there is a difficulty that if we go too far in taking power away from the er from the employer , erm then I , I can see the demise of final salary pension schemes , so I think one 's got to keep a balance there of erm you know that i that you must n't turn the employee off completely from this type of scheme . |