Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun pl] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before he left , Chagall twisted a coil of stout wire around the door handle twenty-five times , certain that the one hundred and fifty paintings he had left inside would be secure . |
| 2 | Still , for two hundred and fifty pounds he had no room for complaint . |
| 3 | To this end he set out to give a ‘ factual picture of life as it comes at a boy in the Merchant Service ’ , offering details of the kind of people he would meet and ‘ some of the problems and emotional conflicts he would have to face … ’ |
| 4 | The British , Commonwealth and European titles he has won since then were all taken while fighting in London . |
| 5 | As party spokesman on Treasury and Economic Affairs he recently showed his political maturity by asserting that the Lloyd 's crisis ‘ gave anxiety for the national interest ’ — a view not shared by many of his colleagues . |
| 6 | As Creggan soared upwards he found himself lost in a swirling black wind in which were scattered moving lights , swaying trees and strange sounds he had never heard before . |
| 7 | When a noble assumes his title and feudal responsibilities he becomes a member of one of the select brotherhoods of Knightly Orders . |
| 8 | Milcolm McIllvoil being called compared and confessed he practised a charm with a string and some words he spoke within the compass of the string for the rickets possession and any other sudden distemper which he did practice by putting a lint thread to his breath and repeating the following words within the compass of it . |
| 9 | Milcolm McIllvoil being called compared and confessed he practised a charm with a string and some words he spoke within the compass of the string for the rickets possession and any other sudden distemper which he did practice by putting a lint thread to his breath and repeating the following words within the compass of it . |
| 10 | In recognition of Dicke 's outstanding clinical and scientific capacities he was appointed to the Chair of Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Utrecht and he became Medical Director of the Wilhelmina Children 's Hospital in 1957 . |
| 11 | Erskine , long resident in Stockholm , is known for the warm , humane domestic , public and commercial buildings he has designed in Sweden over the past 50 years . |
| 12 | In later and easier days he would certainly have studied mathematics at university , but instead left school when he was seventeen . |
| 13 | head With Pure Henna and feathery fronds He |
| 14 | At the age of 39 and 105 days he becomes the ninth oldest player in history to make his Test debut in Friday 's historic encounter between South Africa and India in Durban . |
| 15 | Send him only with enough for the journey and such toys he shows an exceptional fondness for you having mentioned he will not be parted from the train William carved . |
| 16 | She was both proud and fearful for him and , as she continued to look on him , thought of the vast and mighty oceans he would cross , the loneliness of such journeys , and prayed he would not regret his decision to leave them . |
| 17 | Unhappily for Fussell , his book 's true usefulness may lie in its future value to trash historians , who will pore ecstatically through the kitsch menus and gruesome adverts he has compiled . |
| 18 | Owing to war and limited facilities he left exploitation of his discoveries to others . |
| 19 | Three times he tried the manoeuvre and three times he failed to haul his weight over the sill . |
| 20 | Peter was accused three times , as he sat in the courtyard of the high priest 's house , of being one of Jesus ' men and three times he denied it . |
| 21 | But he was just in passing sentence so that he would not accept money nor shrink from the right way ; and these sentences he gave after careful deliberation with much maturity of judgment . |
| 22 | No , his son was not at present intending to follow his father into a scientific career , although his daughter was ( and these questions he found particularly intrusive , but then thoughts of Ian and his activities always were an intrusion anyway ) . |
| 23 | He slept on a straw pallet in the low attic space at the Widow MacIntosh 's and these days he hated to wake up . |
| 24 | When warning the Church in Corinth to be on their guard against false preachers and false gospels he wrote ‘ But I fear lest by any means , as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtility , so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ . ’ |
| 25 | She was only eighteen and still quite unsophisticated but , after all the glossy and sophisticated women he had gone out with , that was part of her appeal . |
| 26 | But once his novelty value had worn off among the blasé Viennese , his audiences declined , while jealousy and court intrigue combined to deny him the court appointments and lucrative commissions he so desperately needed . |
| 27 | And these people took them in cleaned them up put them in like a bloody sheet , and all sorts he said |
| 28 | After dealing with all other natural and visual amenities he concluded with his plans for a forest of oak , ash , beech and larch , little glades of flowers , railings painted with ‘ invisible green ’ , occasionally steps to be cut in steep rocks and handrails made of oak or larch to be installed . |
| 29 | Undeniably , the holder of an FBL lacks the substantive and procedural rights he enjoys as a holder of the traditional ocean bill of lading . |
| 30 | In his youth he was taught , in accordance with Hindu custom , to repeat the thousand names of God , but he realized that the thousand names of God were not exhaustive and that while God has many names and many forms he is also nameless and formless . |