Example sentences of "he [adj] " in BNC.

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1 That 's all Danny talked about when 'e first come 'ome from France .
2 I am hearing him loud and clear .
3 Joan had met Sir James Tyrell — the constable who had replaced Brackenbury — and she had found him pleasant enough when Alianor had presented him to her .
4 The debtor remains in a sense owner ; he has a new sort of equitable ownership , ‘ an equity of redemption ’ , which he is only to lose after the court has given him ample opportunity to repay , and it becomes plain to the court that he can not or will not pay .
5 With luck Vic and Emily should be gone several hours , giving him ample time to search for evidence and be back at the white house long before they returned .
6 Industry bargaining was also preferable to employers in Italy since it allowed their associations to maintain a tight control on bargaining activities whilst at the same time freeing the individual employer from direct impact with the union — yet giving him ample leeway to influence his employees from outside union channels ( Treu , 1981 ) .
7 It gave him ample time to check the house .
8 These Imperial durbars were Inayat Khan 's favourite material , giving him ample occasion to tug his forelock and fill the pages of the Shah Jehan Nama with paeans to the generosity of his Imperial paymaster .
9 This gave him ample opportunities to put the British case .
10 He took with him strange plants and birds to show the King and Queen .
11 It was a strange place and it gave him strange ideas ; he was oddly aware of those who had played , and loved and quarrelled there .
12 He had left him asleep in the cottage , an act of merry .
13 He went up to see Ivan and found him asleep .
14 She , seeing him asleep , leaves him . )
15 The problem was so great , it dragged him asleep .
16 ‘ I 've seen him asleep and I 've seen him waking up .
17 " No you were n't , you were fast asleep , and he turned to the young officer and enquired : " Did you see him asleep , Sir ? "
18 , I mean a woman that frightened we all be seething inside and of course seeing him asleep in a drunken stupor to think now 's my chance , she must of been in a terrible state emotionally
19 But to his unfortunate son and daughter ( William Armstrong and Margo Gunn ) he seems to ‘ make Shylock look like Dr. Barnardo ’ as he keeps them in penury with each request for money causing him acute physical pain .
20 Most damaging to the action man myth of JFK was his serious adrenaline disorder , Addison 's disease , which gave him acute back pain .
21 He had never used the cane before , only the threat of it , but all three children were well aware that Kim 's flagrant disobedience earlier that evening had caused him acute public embarrassment .
22 Every moment I am conscious of those little differences which , although appearing minute to the layman , to the dancer constitute the difference between the amateur and that je ne sais quoi which makes him professional .
23 ‘ Oh — you told him that ! ’ chorused Ethel and Mary .
24 And Paul himself and Maggie and Fenna , but she would not try to tell him that .
25 Conran asked this manager to carry out a feasibility study , the result of which convinced him that Habitat should move into France , a country for which he has always had a great fondness .
26 I do n't want to see Mr Jackson tomorrow , but I did n't tell him that .
27 ‘ Yes , but do n't tell him that — not for the moment , anyway . ’
28 It is when she feels compassion , rather than revulsion , for the salamander and kisses him that the spell breaks .
29 So he brought his tapes with him that night and he loved it .
30 To this day the world sees him that way .
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