Example sentences of "[verb] he [vb mod] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If permission to develop land is refused or granted subject to conditions , whether by the local planning authority or by the Secretary of State for the Environment , and the owner of the land claims that the land has become incapable of reasonably beneficial use in its existing state and can not be rendered capable of reasonably beneficial use by the carrying out of any development which has been or would be permitted he may serve on the Council , a purchase notice requiring the Council to purchase his interest in the land in accordance with the provisions of Part IX of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971 . |
| 2 | ‘ And I did n't know he 'd come to the hotel to find you ! |
| 3 | To the left , he could only at first see his own garden , his tennis court , the old wall that screened his vegetables — to eat what one has grown , actually to eat that ! — but then , across a low hedge and a fence that needed repair , he found he could see into the garden of the new Rectory , whose impersonal little back windows faced the same way as his own . |
| 4 | Is the Secretary of State required to tell the prisoner what period the judiciary have recommended he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence ? 5 . |
| 5 | He walks about at night , and people say he can see in the dark . ’ |
| 6 | She thought his resignation was ‘ inevitable ’ but believed he could return to the Government later . |
| 7 | ‘ He says he 'll listen to the tape tomorrow . ’ |
| 8 | Inconsistency is when the wandering operations director says he 'll look into the air-conditioning problem and then does nothing about it . |
| 9 | ‘ Where I hope he will reflect on the unwisdom of employing his charm and duplicity on a woman as sharp as I. ’ |
| 10 | the sky was high , the air so clear that he imagined he could see to the ends of the earth . |
| 11 | Mr Ridley should have said he would learn from the failure of a consumer and credit-based boom , end the exclusive reliance on interest rates that so damaged the industries he was supposed to represent . |
| 12 | The farmer has said he 'll appeal against the sentence . |
| 13 | But Mr Kravchuk seems unlikely to choose this course , and Mr Kuchma has said he will bow to the will of his president . |
| 14 | Shop steward 's chairman who was one of a delegation of six who later had a meeting with Minister for Energy Tim Eggar , said : ‘ We were encouraged by the promises of support we got from the MPs and the Minister has said he will look at the pension scheme position . ’ |
| 15 | He has 14 days to appeal but has already been told he must appear before the FA Commission . |
| 16 | He claimed Mr Marland had agreed he should look after the site and demanded money . |
| 17 | He claimed Mr Marland had agreed he should look after the site and demanded money . |
| 18 | Must have seen his name in the paper and reckoned he 'd pay over the odds to get it back today . ’ |
| 19 | I know he could walk in the next lesson and things would be perfectly OK . |
| 20 | ‘ Spot of bother ? ’ he enquired jauntily as Tweed indicated he should sit in the chair beside his desk . |
| 21 | He shuddered with pleasure , wishing he could see into the darkness of this other , and know its face . |
| 22 | Perhaps he could get off the hook by saying he would go in the morning ? |
| 23 | She said as much to Bunny , who , after being furnished with certain examples of this refreshing trait , decided he ought to look into the matter . |
| 24 | His wife , red spots of anger high on her cheeks , gave him a pithy lecture on the rules of hospitality and gentility , so Corbett , like any good mariner facing a squall , decided he would run before the storm . |
| 25 | ‘ We both decided he should play in the reserves on Thursday . |
| 26 | King Idomeneus of Crete , caught in a storm at sea on his way home , vows to Neptune that if he is spared he will sacrifice to the gods the first person he meets on landing — which turns out to be , of course , his own son , Idamantes . |
| 27 | The Pitman yard , which has done so well in this race — one winner , a second and two thirds since 1983 — believe he will adapt to the unique Aintree fences , and as long as he copes with the first few , they feel he must go close . |
| 28 | I reckon he 'll get to the end of the universe and that 'll be that . |
| 29 | ‘ I reckon he could play in the Premier League and I 've no hesitation in saying that . ’ |
| 30 | He has already proved he can win on the ground and he beat Repington five lengths at Huntingdon last week . |