Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The eventual aim ’ , wrote Alexander Cockburn in Student Power ‘ is the cementing of a revolutionary bloc with working-class forces ; but the immediate power of the student lies in his university , his college , where he works as a student . ’ |
| 2 | There is a scene where he 's sitting in his bathrobe , where he looks like a woman from Coronation Street . |
| 3 | Yes in the sense that although he comes from a peasant background originally , it 's a rich peasant background and he himself had er a reasonable education and subsequently erm built on the education that he was given becoming in part self-taught . |
| 4 | Tom Arnold himself is appointed , not elected and , although he reports to a committee ‘ representing ’ the voluntary party , he is not accountable to that committee , nor is that committee elected by the constituency associations on whose behalf it is supposed to act ( it does not even report to them ) . |
| 5 | Andy Gray , on Sky , said that he sits on a panel to decide if a goal is an OG or not … and can then take goals off players . |
| 6 | If a person goes to the town hall and says that he qualifies for a discount , the authority will need proof . |
| 7 | May I suggest that he apologises in a broadcast from No. 10 Downing street , which I understand he occupies temporarily , and that he should give some thought — |
| 8 | For instance , at ‘ Pope John Paul ’ the Head of Music expressed the strongly held view that he operates as a practitioner involved in education rather than the transmission of an established body of knowledge . |
| 9 | A leader of one group is also a subordinate member of a group higher in the hierarchical structure , so that he acts as a link between his subordinates and a higher authority . |
| 10 | ( 4 ) In determining the value of an action under paragraph ( 1 ) ( a ) : ( a ) the sum which the plaintiff or applicant reasonably expects to recover shall be reduced by the amount of any debt which he admits that he owes to a defendant in that action and which arises from the circumstances which give rise to the action ; ( b ) no account shall be taken of a possible finding of contributory negligence , except to the extent , if any , that such negligence is admitted ; ( c ) where the plaintiff seeks an award of provisional damages as described in s 32A(2) ( a ) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 , no account shall be taken of the possibility of a future application for further damages ; ( d ) the value shall be taken to include sums which , by virtue of s 22 of the Social Security Act 1989 , are required to be paid to the Secretary of State . |
| 11 | ‘ I reckon I 've got more in this pocket than he gets in a month . ’ |
| 12 | Sweeney has no sooner stood up and shaved than he appears in a vision of reversion taking the form of the second parenthesis , the importance of whose material strains against the parenthetical format , guiding our reading of the poem : |
| 13 | Well yeah I guess I did he gets confidence and he walks up with this he 's getting cockier by the minute and he 's well proud and he 's got he sees this , his in this bar trying to chat up this woman , he says I need a , I need a did n't he say I need a smoke or something , so he looks for a woman |
| 14 | ‘ He is thinner than Hess , he is stupider than Hess , and he thinks like a peasant . |
| 15 | And he talks like a translation . ’ |
| 16 | His change of bank with the same g sends his nose up and he climbs into a barrel roll . |
| 17 | So he 's walking down the street , trying ah , trying ah to get his mind off this and he gets on a train . |
| 18 | And er I gets him down and I gets him into the stable , and I gets all the clothes off him and he gets into a bag , a bran bag , more bags and lay down and covered himself , and I hung his clothes round the boiler fire . |
| 19 | I confess to him that I have never done Kipling Groove and he launches into a celebration of Arthur Dolphin 's famous classic . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , Joan catches Victor slightly off-balance and he falls against a wall , bruising his arm slightly . |
| 21 | It fills him with strange satisfaction to think that while the great illumination of the Market Square is quite invisible from this point , the little lamps of Iron Green can be seen glowing through a gap beyond Albert Road , It is many years now since he has visited the lower end of Odborough , for his legs will not carry him up and down the hill , and he growls like a dog if anyone suggests a car . |
| 22 | His father , also Norman , who died a year earlier , in 1772 , is portrayed in Allan Ramsay 's portrait as if he might have been Bonnie Prince Charlie — in wrap-around plaid , curly white wig , a gold-hilted claymore at his left hip , right hand outflung , and he stands in a landscape of rock , sky and water . |
| 23 | The last seven lines on three rhymes break the pattern of units of sense on single rhymes as the meditator signals by means of the present tense : " lufe chawnges my chere " , the possibility of transformation to a state where he can hear the melody to which love dances , and he ends with a statement of faith , " be my lufyng , I lufe may syng " . |
| 24 | I just thought poor guy , I mean he was somebody who thought he 'd overcome food addiction , drink addiction , drugs addiction and he looks like a spider . |
| 25 | He is my wife 's brother and he works as a journalist with a newspaper in Hue . |
| 26 | ‘ Because he is rich and he lives on a desert island like this when he could be in Paris … ’ |
| 27 | My old man 's a dustman he wears a dustman 's hat he wars cor blimey trousers and he lives in a council flat . |
| 28 | And he lives in a house on Suez Street , |
| 29 | The friend is called Bobby and he lives in a slum near the city centre . |
| 30 | and he lives in a chateaux in France . |