Example sentences of "he [noun pl] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He coins the term ‘ victimism ’ to label a community 's groans of discontent at a society that endlessly places the individual ahead of all else . |
| 2 | The right hon. Gentleman touches on an important matter , but he misrepresents the views of the Government and he misrepresents what I said . |
| 3 | Just as he privileges a particular mode of production ( focused on the bourgeois composer ) a particular kind of musical form ( integrated , self-generating ) and particular parameters of musical language ( those foregrounded by notation ) , so he privileges the concomitant mode of listening . |
| 4 | He loaths the Country , and his Fellow Swains ; |
| 5 | His nursery being fully stocked with flowering shrubs , of all sorts that can be pictured , with these he borders the outskirts of all his plantations and he continues , annually , raising from seed and layering , budding , grafting , that twenty thousand trees are hardly to be missed out of his nurseries . |
| 6 | He upturns the conventional view of law as a constraint on the people and argues that its proper purpose is to liberate the common people by confining ‘ the mighty ’ , among whom he includes both kings and parliaments . |
| 7 | He unties the bundle . |
| 8 | He hesitates as he unties the ropes . |
| 9 | He chops the heart to bits . |
| 10 | He outlines the qualitites to look for in a printer and explains how best to get the results you require . |
| 11 | When he does produce these propositions he does so through ironic positive politeness , more precisely through superficially observing the approbation maxim : Anderson 's irony here is much more successful than that which he uses when arguing with the captain in scene six ( where his ironic statements concerning human rights in Czechoslovakia actually prompt the captain to ask further awkward questions ( pp. 70 – 1 ) ) , because he exploits the potential ambiguity of the academic discourse appropriate to a lecture . |
| 12 | Then he holes the putt , and I knew he 'd won because he was three shots in front . |
| 13 | He bombards the brandy with a violent infusion of soda from the large siphon . |
| 14 | He flights the ball well and is already proving to be a master in disguising the googly . |
| 15 | He instances the case of two schools of art , run by the Inner London Education Authority , one of which offers 67 per cent of its work as advanced further education and the other which offers 51 per cent ; both of them are regional and national centres providing courses at all levels ; they thus exemplify the ‘ seamless robe ’ of further education and facilitate student progression between different course levels . |
| 16 | He pouches the ball with the eye of a major league outfielder , and that is because he was a player of some repute before he gave up the bat for the bag at the start of the 1970s . |
| 17 | Van den Boogard suggested that in the Anglo-Norman fabliaux the author assumes what he calles the persona of the clerk , i.e. a character looking for respect and admiration for his ability to tell a fascinating tale of intrigue ( inter alia ) , whereas a French author is more likely to adopt the persona of the jongleur , shocking by his anarchism but amusing at the same time through his self-mockery . |