Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is the total distance he walks each day ? |
| 2 | She had forgotten the compulsion of his confident smile , the total assurance he carried everywhere he went . |
| 3 | Overwhelmed by the force in him , trembling with the intensity of her own response , Isabel parted her lips , whimpering in feminine submission and an equally feminine fear of the total surrender he was wrenching from her . |
| 4 | I think the total quote he he gave us before was about four hun thousand was n't it ? but it included I think . |
| 5 | But even when both eyes are painted within the normal convention he makes the expression in each subtly different , as if to express the duality in his subject . |
| 6 | The title of ‘ Aviation Secretary ’ did no justice at all to the scope , depth and integrity of the painstaking work he undertook to make air racing a safe and professionally-run sport . |
| 7 | For while Creggan had been attacking the hooded crow he had been watched and now he in his turn was being stooped upon . |
| 8 | Unable to see beyond the short-term gain he went from whim to whim , reacting without thought to whatever gossip he happened to have heard last . |
| 9 | Newman drove along the narrow road he 'd turned on to off the B4027 at no more than thirty miles an hour . |
| 10 | The terrace was cluttered with wooden benches , empty beer crates and a fire escape which half hid the narrow door he meant . |
| 11 | As he raced up the narrow track he took a quick look over his shoulder . |
| 12 | On the narrow bridge he stood in front of her again , blocking her way , looking back past her at the House . |
| 13 | He 's gone for the narrow side he 's tried to squeeze it in the in the near post when he 'd got all the far post to go for . |
| 14 | He goes up through the hoops along the narrow , she said the first day when all the others were standing there shaking at the narrow bath he was just over it and down and she said you 've never seen him |
| 15 | The broad comedy he brings into the drama is , like the operatic emotions of the romantic plot , performed with masterly finesse . |
| 16 | Yet Major did not choose to discuss the momentous decision he was about to take with his wife . |
| 17 | Her talk of moving , and the indefinable detachment he had felt in her when they had met , worried him . |
| 18 | He failed , however , to get the rapturous reception he may have expected from his chief apologist on the international scene . |
| 19 | I reckon Marie-Anne 's the nicest girl he 's ever fancied . |
| 20 | ‘ He 'd tell me I was the nicest woman he 'd ever been with . |
| 21 | Erm , and it 's , it 's all there , it 's , you know it 's a nice car , it 's the nicest car he 's had ! |
| 22 | An unfolding of the divine purpose he also discerned in the revelation that in relation to the world God is active by his word and wisdom , like ‘ two hands ’ shaping the world and guiding the church . |
| 23 | In the divine tribunal he became a sin offering . |
| 24 | He entered the profession after an apprenticeship at the Jesuit college he attended in Sheffield , where his father , a salesman in steel , had moved from London with his young son . |
| 25 | The introduction to medieval and Renaissance literature that appeared some months after his death as The Discarded Image ( 1964 ) , based on the accumulated notes of lectures he had given for decades in Oxford and Cambridge , deals sympathetically with authors who , as he approvingly remarks , quote Homer and Hesiod ‘ as if they were no less to be taken into account than the sacred writers ’ ; and the break in the European spirit he saw as a consequence of the seventeenth-century scientific revolution is magnified here , in a sweeping argument , far beyond the familiar classroom shift from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance . |
| 26 | DAVE McAULEY , Ireland 's former IBF flyweight champion , has turned down the chance to challenge Welshman Robbie Regan for the European title he won from champion Salvatore Fanni last Saturday . |
| 27 | This is not at all the case and if Tam ( who is usually very accurate in his writing ) read the material coming from the European Parliament he would know that this is not the case . |
| 28 | In 1993 the top three will take 35% of the European market he says , by 1995 believes this share will have risen to 75% . |
| 29 | Morgan had waved the unlit cigar he 'd held clenched between his teeth . |
| 30 | The woman 's face cleared like magic and she smiled back at him , not missing the subtle compliment he had paid her , and Fran had to bite back an urge to grind her teeth . |