Example sentences of "[that] he [vb -s] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | It is to the hon. Gentleman 's credit that he wishes to raise a matter that may be embarrassing to his hon. Friends . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | Hurry up so that he 's got a paddy on at teatime . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Only it 's just lucky that he 's got a lot ! |
| 10 | The secretary of the local tennis club telephones to say that he wants to make a booking for their annual dinner and dance . |
| 11 | GUY Edwards , the former Formula One racing driver , tells me from California that he has clinched a £50 million sponsorship deal for the Lotus Formula One team . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Yet it is likely that he has imposed a colour-filter on Derrida , which lets through the rational elements and occludes the irrational ones . |
| 14 | Mr Waddington also announced that he has accepted a Commons home affairs committee recommendation that police officers should not be able to escape disciplinary proceedings by retiring on medical grounds . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | Sec. knows that he has made a step towards a quorum on the next occasion . |
| 17 | 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) ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If the subject prefers to look at one stimulus rather than another we can assume that he has detected a difference between them . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The irony of it is this is that he has done a lot , he gave ten thousand |
| 22 | It is not likely that he has seen a pixie for himself . |
| 23 | " For young Gedge to say , " he said quietly , " that he has seen a person watching boys playing rounders hardly makes that person a homosexual . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | If the remedy is given to the outsider , he will find it difficult , in view of the anonymous nature of the stock market , to show that he has suffered a loss as a result of the insider 's trades . |
| 26 | For example , the plaintiff must prove , on the balance of probabilities , that , first , there has been a contravention of Rule 28 ( or its SRO equivalent ) , and secondly , that he has suffered a loss as a result of the defendant 's contravention . |
| 27 | From the foregoing discussion it is obvious that , as things currently stand , any person attempting to recover damages from an insider will , under s.62 as amended , face enormous difficulties in proving not only that a breach of the relevant insider dealing rule has actually occurred , but also that he has suffered a loss as a result of it . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , the fallout from his hasty departure from BDO Binder Hamlyn continues with the news that he has issued a writ against the firm in connection with a compensation claim . |
| 29 | So when he claims to have had glimpses of absolute Truth , it may be reasonable to assume , not that he has caught a glimpse of some kind of hypostasized Ultimate or extra-mundane entity , but rather that through his participation in a particular form of life he is made aware of the need to live and act in accordance with certain religious and ethical criteria and is informed by the spirit of what might be called dharma ( law ) , or ta ( moral law ) , or tao ( way ) but which he prefers to call Truth ( Satya ) or God . |
| 30 | He has also repeatedly called for the Union Jack to be removed from Australia 's flag , but this is the first time that he has outlined a timetable for change . |