Example sentences of "he [adj] [vb -s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bookmakers ' 2–1 favourite , he first confronts Stephen Murphy , of Dublin , three years a professional but raw to the aptly-named Crucible . |
| 2 | As the play goes on , we notice that when Tamburlaine is confronted by war , he first offers words as a way of warning and deterrent , and then is the opposition do not listen , he follows this up with swift and bloody actions . |
| 3 | He first meets Pistol , that illegitimate verse-speaker , in a bizarre confrontation ( Henry V , IV.i.35–63 ) , but then becomes involved in a long discussion with soldiers Williams and Bates on the rights and wrongs of war , and the responsibility of the ruler for the death of his people . |
| 4 | Make his life as easy as possible when he first starts school to avoid the problem occurring in the first place . |
| 5 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that when he next meets representatives of the west midlands CBI or any other CBI — the north-west is my area — they are likely to raise the fact that the most powerful economies of the world , especially Germany and Japan are based on a substantial manufacturing base ? |
| 6 | That look I think was for when he next meets Gareth Gilcock . |
| 7 | My right hon. Friend will be aware , when he next visits Lancashire , that the news that the Liberal council has had to give up office in Maidstone has travelled the length and breadth of the land — |