Example sentences of "he of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you can see it was a three way tie between ‘ Judas ’ Jordan , Pisshead , and he of the stylish shirtcollar . |
| 2 | Johnny Dee , he of the flat-top skull and map-reading talents , wandered amongst the flaming buildings in search of a cab . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But England 's latest problem was new boy Rashid Latif , he of the frantic cap-throwing episode at Headingley , who now , having kept wicket with a dexterity to which Moin , whom he now replaced , could never aspire , began to bat with the attractive aplomb of a Dujon . |
| 7 | We camp Lappish style in a lavvu that Tor , he of the wall-to-wall shoulders , has paddled here on his deck . |
| 8 | So certain was he of the Huge Reward that he was feeling unusually generous . |
| 9 | Well , it is summertime and if you have trouble getting time on the courts here in town and tripping to the Hamptons presents a problem why not simply go to Terry Dintenfass where the witty William King he of the loopy lanky aluminoids has set up a gallery-wide installation called ‘ Tennis : The Monument ’ ? |
| 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 | According to Ron Chernow , in his recent book ‘ The House of Morgan ’ , many negotiations took place in all-night sessions in the ‘ black library ’ of J. Pierpont Morgan , he of the bulbous , acne-ridden nose and the investment bank that then dominated American finance . |
| 12 | Known , but somehow often overlooked , is the fact that Ellsworth Kelly he of the precise abstract geometries and the monochromatic fields has always kept a pencil within easy reach , taking it up regularly over the years to make line drawings , uninflected by modelling , chiefly of plants and flowers . |
| 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 | The press saw in Jean Lecanuet — he of the white teeth , flashing smile , youthful appearance , centrist and pro-US ‘ Atlanticist ’ policies — a French J. F. Kennedy ; Mitterrand , the left FGDS candidate , was perceived as stilted and ill-at-ease . ’ |
| 15 | Yet only he of the British Medical Journal actually explained what Petrofsky was trying to do — stimulating muscles electrically in their natural walking sequence . |