Example sentences of "of he [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Pound revised and expanded this to make The ABC of Reading ( the title is still a misnomer ) , he winkled out of it most of the anti-Englishness that had been present in the first version , when Pound was still smarting from what he took to be England 's rejection of him eight years before , in 1920 . |
| 2 | She found it most distasteful to think of him owing money to the bingo-playing woman in the basement . |
| 3 | ‘ We lost him but because of him other parents may be able to take their babies home . ’ |
| 4 | Barbados was British through and through , and one of his friends said of him many years later : ‘ He was as English as can be . |
| 5 | Ahead of him blue light shone out of the open hatchway . |
| 6 | Perhaps she would think of him one day with less ill-will than now , but not for very long at a time ; not obsessively , not like this . |
| 7 | I was unhappily aware of him all day , moving about his room , occasionally muttering to himself . |
| 8 | She ate her meals alone , and only caught a fleeting glimpse of him all day as he disappeared through a far doorway . |
| 9 | In any event , unlike the autumn of 1557 , the time was now certainly ripe for the peculiar inspiration of John Knox , the man who , in the words of the English diplomat Randolph , ‘ is able in one hour to put more life into us than five hundred trumpets continually blustering in our ears ’ , and who would later be described by the same diplomat in 1561 , a week after Mary 's return to Scotland , as the preacher who ‘ thundereth out of the pulpit … he ruleth the roast , and of him all men stand in fear ’ . |
| 10 | Marc was as good as his word and Sarella saw no more of him that day . |
| 11 | It was perhaps one slight rejection of the conformity that was expected of him that night . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But although we all looked everywhere for Heathcliff , there was no sign of him that night , or for many nights in the future . |
| 14 | Even when she was tiny she had n't really thought of him that way , and when she was older , about thirteen , she had secretly been terribly proud in front of the other girls when Georg , who had never seemed to go through a spotty adolescent phase like other boys , used to wait for her outside school so that they could walk up the mountain road together . |
| 15 | Then he would place them on one of the old time boards which was er board about nine inches by nine inches and then hand that through the pigeon hole to the cashier and in front of him that cashier would laboriously count that money and agree the total there and then . |
| 16 | He was not looking forward to the events which he knew lay ahead of him that morning , but he dismissed all such thoughts from his mind : pleasant and unpleasant , most tasks were equal to him now : he viewed them with the same cold dispassion — so many tasks in each day , so many days in each week , so many weeks in each year . |
| 17 | So here I publish a picture of him ten years ago when he was Junior Minister he is enjoying a marvellous a party at London 's Intercontinental Hotel . |
| 18 | He asked if I was a friend of the other young chap who had made exactly the same enquiry of him ten days ago . ’ |
| 19 | He did n't mix much , and we do n't hear anything of him these days . |
| 20 | But he answered all the difficult questions that Harvey Smith 's younger son asked of him last night to defeat a flying round from Philip Heffer on Viewpoint . |
| 21 | She would n't get much good of him last night . ’ |
| 22 | I never got round to showing you the photos of him last time . ’ |
| 23 | However McCann , who got to within 8 seconds of him last Saturday in the Movilla 10 , started very quickly and at the turn , which he reached in 9.30 , he was 10 seconds up on the Banbridge man . |
| 24 | ‘ The captain , Stuart Barnes , has done everything asked of him this year . |
| 25 | Maguire will surely be champion jockey in due course but appreciates what a long haul he has ahead of him this season . |
| 26 | With every approach , try to get into the habit of thinking ahead about the height of he final turn and to become familiar with the idea of using the airbrakes to bring you down so that the final turn is not too high . |
| 27 | In the entrance hall of he present church the 20 bronze plaques commemorate both old and young — from Desmond William Green , who lived for 6 weeks , to many who died in the fullness of age . |
| 28 | It is believed the chapel was built on this spot by monks at the beginning of he 16th century . |
| 29 | Some of he old outhouses have been converted into a Wheelwright 's workshop , a Blacksmith 's forget and a Plumber/Tinsmith 's workshop . |
| 30 | The same membrane described in Figure 4 is hybridized with ( A ) riboprobe of HE 143 probe ( ND5 antisens ) or with ND4 probe . |