Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb -s] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even where he does show an interest in ‘ education ’ it is , as we have seen , only as a preventive device aimed at the public at large . |
| 2 | The man , wearing just sunglasses to disguise himself , is reaching into a plastic bag where he claims to have a gun and a grenade . |
| 3 | The South African , injured in a fall two weeks ago , has made a successful return to action , but still feels considerable pain in the lower part of his back where he has pulled a muscle . |
| 4 | Nick is only a bystander , like the reader , and fairly impartial , although he does have a character of his own and separate events involved in his life , apart from Daisy and Gatsby . |
| 5 | McHale will have to make his final decision in the next couple of days for , although he has reserved a place in the entry list with the Circuit organisers , two of his main mechanics are waiting for his verdict before deciding whether to join the World championship Toyota team on the Safari Rally in east Africa . |
| 6 | He 's not the greatest header of the ball although he has won a corner . |
| 7 | The ultimate source is Sir John Hawkins , who remarks , in what appears to be a personal recollection , that Handel had ‘ a favourite Rucker harpsichord , the keys whereof , by incessant practise , were hollowed like the bowl of a spoon ’ In justice to Hawkins it must be stated that he does have a reputation for being , for his time , a careful scholar , so it is unfortunate that this brief , almost casual remark , should have been embellished with a little fanciful romancing that appears to be added only to enliven his text with some colourful anecdote . |
| 8 | As a gesture of goodwill , it should be suggested to the purchaser that he offers to sign a confidentiality undertaking in favour of the vendors covering such information . |
| 9 | So , moving on to another requirement of this law , which states that ‘ When a penalty kick is taken the following shall apply : ( a ) The kick must be taken without undue delay ; ( b ) the kick must be taken at or behind the mark on a line through the mark ; ( c ) The kicker may kick the ball in any direction and he may play the ball again , without any restriction except if he has indicated to the referee that he intends to attempt a kick for goal ’ . |
| 10 | Kenneth Baker , the Conservative Party chairman , has made it clear that he intends mounting an attack on the Labour leader 's personal qualities . |
| 11 | It is to the hon. Gentleman 's credit that he wishes to raise a matter that may be embarrassing to his hon. Friends . |
| 12 | And , checking back , the Sounds review of the time ( in which journalist Rab claims that he 's had a tape since November 1980 ) provided the release with a five star rating , while NME was mildly less enthusiastic , observing that ‘ it 's an odd LP , naturally flawed and imperfect and rather stilted in places but nonetheless a worthy attempt at indisciplinary entertainment . ’ |
| 13 | But a man who makes his living playing black music suddenly sporting the flag waved on every Nazi march AND toying with skin imagery ( and like or not , lads , the crop and boots HAVE been adopted by Nazis in the USA and Europe ) AND writing ambiguous lyrics about an issue which brooks no ambiguity AND making idiotic remarks about blacks and black music in interviews AND hankering ( in a curiously middle aged manner à la Gary Numan ) after a nice , homogenous ‘ England ’ that never actually existed AND refusing to defend or explain himself — ALL that means , at the very least , that he 's got a case to answer , surely ? |
| 14 | Hurry up so that he 's got a paddy on at teatime . |
| 15 | It 's also good I think for , for cricket in general that he 's got a pitch that helps him a bit on the fifth day and that 's how it should be . |
| 16 | Only it 's just lucky that he 's got a lot ! |
| 17 | The secretary of the local tennis club telephones to say that he wants to make a booking for their annual dinner and dance . |
| 18 | It means chairman Paul Woolhouse may have to quit the club after claims that he has missed a deadline to pay for £3million worth of shares . |
| 19 | Yet it is likely that he has imposed a colour-filter on Derrida , which lets through the rational elements and occludes the irrational ones . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps Martin Edwards will admit that he has made a mistake selling to the person he has done and the way in which he has sold it . |
| 21 | Sec. knows that he has made a step towards a quorum on the next occasion . |
| 22 | The point that no one in government seems to have grasped is that the businessman who spots what he thinks is a gap in the market and retools his factory , only to find that he has made an error of judgment , loses his own money and learns his lesson . |
| 23 | Any creditor ( other than a secured creditor ) is eligible to be a member of the committee provided that he has lodged a proof of debt and his proof has not been wholly disallowed for voting purposes nor for the purposes of distribution and dividend ( r6.150(2) ) . |
| 24 | I would say that , if his life is such that he has to use a drug , the welfare is poor , even if at the moment of using the drug there is no unpleasant subjective feeling . |
| 25 | If the subject prefers to look at one stimulus rather than another we can assume that he has detected a difference between them . |
| 26 | Indeed overall , he says surprisingly little about Grace and next to nothing about the sacramental life ; for these reasons one might regret the title which he gave to the three books gathered into one — Mere Christianity — for it implies that he has written a sort of mini-Summa or encyclopaedia of theology . |
| 27 | The irony of it is this is that he has done a lot , he gave ten thousand |
| 28 | It is not likely that he has seen a pixie for himself . |
| 29 | " For young Gedge to say , " he said quietly , " that he has seen a person watching boys playing rounders hardly makes that person a homosexual . |
| 30 | The patient 's problem is that he has joined a group of unfamiliar people , some of whom , the patients , are present all the time ; others , the nurses , are in his vicinity for some of the time ; and a whole variety of others appear ‘ to come and go ’ . |