Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's just that he seems so caring … in the work he does with the handicapped … ’ |
| 2 | What we find in Guerrillas is a narrative of unfailing fascination which delivers to the senses of the reader a country very like the countries he knows in the real world : equally , his experience of that country is very like his experience of Naipaul 's India , in being rarely subdued by an awareness of the writer 's more deliberate meanings . |
| 3 | When the Theogonist accompanies the Empire army into battle he rides on the mobile War Altar of Sigmar , a huge chariot which carries the sacred altar surmounted by a huge statue of a griffon . |
| 4 | In Leicestershire , the man who wishes to forget income-tax , hydrogen bombs and the relentless onward march of science walks the field-paths , to which special maps and guides are provided ; in Devon he takes to the deep lanes between the farms . |
| 5 | The fee charged by the agent is , naturally enough , directly proportional to the compensation he gleans from the public authority on behalf of his client . |
| 6 | I do regret the waste of his remarkable talents and wonder about the flattering noises he makes towards the Labour Party . |
| 7 | Patrick Taylor has visited the 400 places he describes in the pocket-sized The Gardener 's Guide to Britain ( Pavilion , £9.99 ) . |
| 8 | The picture he paints of the young Arthur Wellesley is of a man who is calm , courageous and decisive in the face of the enemy , but austere , remote and somewhat harsh in his personal life and relationships with others . |
| 9 | Over the radio we hear him snorting around , and we get too much scratching from when his jacket material rubs against the mike , but in less than half a minute he emerges onto the main road . |
| 10 | you could n't do it , but he had every opportunity the other , the twin did to get through you know and he passed his City and Guilds , but Peter 's got on alright , the other son who 's got the factory , he 's , he 's busy got an electrical panels and all that he does , you know , he 's quite good and my other son he works , he used to work at Burnt Mill , and he now has moved to erm er Stansted , he works at Stansted he works in the big food depot , that used to be years ago and he works there , he 's been there ever since he left school , since except two , two years he had in the army you know for the conscription , but he 's been there erm ever since he was fourteen and he 's now about oh , forty something now he is , I 'm not quite sure of their ages , I get muddled up I 've got , eight , eight sons altogether , so , I 've got quite a family dear . |
| 11 | Seven days a week he works on the new ski lodge in the woodlands overlooking the valley , his private quarters little more than a sleeping-bag in a back room behind the new reception area . |
| 12 | A risk-averse individual would only be indifferent between transacting on the forward market and transacting on the future spot market if the terms he expects on the uncertain future spot market were sufficiently more favourable than the forward market to encourage him to take the risk . |
| 13 | Rolle stresses at the beginning the joy which is the obverse of the discipline : But although it is characteristic of Rolle 's writing to stress the joy of the contemplative , it would be a mistake to suppose that he ever suggests that the passage to it is easy : At the very start he warns against the specific danger attendant on solitary life — hallucination ; a point to remember when considering the arguments of those who tend to be distrustful of Rolle 's theology . |
| 14 | An individual scientist 's decision will depend on the priority he gives to the various factors . |
| 15 | And more : the political bureaucracy , the ‘ Nomenklatura ’ as Voslensky calls the three million or so people he numbers in the Soviet ruling class has the most powerful reason of self-interest for opposing ‘ revisionism ’ . |
| 16 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what role he sees for the global environmental facility in helping developing countries with their environmental problems . |
| 17 | With rapture and relief he elides with the larger unit , the glowing mass . |
| 18 | The dignified pose struck by Chauntecleer in response to Pertelote 's unsympathetic reaction to his dream , in particular the understandable offence he takes at the embarrassing suggestion that what he really needs is a good laxative , would be comic in a human character ; that the character is a bird provides an opportunity for a greater bathetic and comic deflation when the character ends his monologue by flying down from the perch to peck , chuck and " tread " his favourite hens twenty times before dawn ( 3172 – 8 ) . |
| 19 | I find Lubin 's fingerwork in faster movements absolutely sparkling ; and the slightly more flowing tempi he adopts in the slower movements are more to my taste . |
| 20 | But Taylor stressed : ‘ I just have to wait and see how many games he plays over the next few weeks . ’ |
| 21 | He has one rig in our room , another one in dad 's car and a third in the big truck he drives for the frozen meat company . |
| 22 | This is his favourite event , together with the Open — an event where he is as surprised as he is flattered by the support he gets from the British public . |
| 23 | His unchecked activities are thought to derive from the strong support he enjoys from the Serbian government , which is either unwilling or unable to deactivate him . |
| 24 | It is far better to look upon the purpose of such negotiations as to define the risks which each party is willing to accept , and what benefits or rewards he requires from the other party in order to accept those risks . |
| 25 | Evidence of this is in the play he makes with the Virgilian aether and patet ( Aeneid 6 , 127 , 130 ) in the puzzling but impressive Canto 16 . |
| 26 | Consequently , it is rather amusing to have Gergiev tell you that the only thing he misses about the bad old days before perestroika is the order . |
| 27 | Significantly , the French oboists he cites as the first to have come to England find their earliest documentation in a list of musicians who participated in a performance in 1675 of John Crowne 's masque Calisto , although Lasocki speculates that they arrived in 1673 by virtue of being in the company of Robert Cambert . |
| 28 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what account he takes of the national interest in terms of the viability of businesses and the retention of jobs in deciding on the exercise of the functions of his Department in respect of Inland Revenue responsibilities . |
| 29 | show exactly the worth he discerns in the Trojan conflict . |
| 30 | ‘ Limpar could play for Arsenal again the way he plays for the national team if only Graham had more faith in him . |