Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [modal v] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may simply be an entrepreneur who perceives the opportunity to buy resources at a total cost lower than the revenue he can obtain from the sale of output . |
| 2 | Any disappointment he may feel over the delay has been more than compensated for by the news that tickets for this year 's event are already selling fast . |
| 3 | As a hunter he will die in the forest to become a warrior ; as a warrior he will die in battle , and be resurrected to become a sage . |
| 4 | Mr Shahiduddin Postman was a familiar figure at the house : every morning after delivering our mail he would squat outside the front gate , smoking a bidi with the mali , a man to whom he bore a certain resemblance . |
| 5 | After lunch he 'd go into the city and come back with a whole armful of roses , the price of many shirts . ’ |
| 6 | Resource-based learning can last as little as ten minutes : a child 's scrutiny of a repeating film-loop which teaches him a concept or skill he will need for the next part of his programme ; a short programmed exercise that enables him to test his grasp of an idea or piece of knowledge before embarking on a larger exercise ; a work-card unit giving practise in loading a projector or using a subject catalogue . |
| 7 | I hope that in Committee he will listen to the pleas of Members representing Greater London and the south of England because they are dear to my heart and may to some extent be dear to his . |
| 8 | Rémy had no personal knowledge of Ranulf , earl of Chester , and could not be sure what kind of welcome he would get in the north . |
| 9 | Beresford has no doubts though about the welcome he will receive from the 6,000 travelling Newcastle fans . |
| 10 | Instead of striking the middle of the bung he would concentrate on the seal itself . |
| 11 | When the average intelligent person sees the wreckage of a crashed aircraft greatly disintegrated and spread over the accident site , the question he would put to the investigator is almost invariably the same : ‘ How on earth can you find out the cause of that mess ? ’ |
| 12 | Taking a carpet needle or a dentist 's pick he would sit on the stones for hours at a time prising small fossils from particles of rock he instinctively knew concealed them . |
| 13 | At any moment he might trample into the road , lower his head , run at someone . |
| 14 | He grilled me severely about the attitude and background of the character , the place he would occupy in the programme , his point of view , and innumerable other aspects of Byron which I had not yet thought about . ’ |
| 15 | Before she had finished one job he would call through the open doorway , ‘ Merrill , come and take a look at this , will you ? ’ |
| 16 | Held , allowing the appeals , that the Secretary of State was required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period that prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Act of 1967 set the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence ; that , before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make representations , the Secretary of State was required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which had not been disclosed at the trial and would be relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for those purposes ; but that the Secretary of State was not obliged to adopt that judicial view or , if he departed from it , to give reasons for doing so , and that he was entitled to delegate his powers for that purpose to a junior minister within the Home Department ; and that , accordingly , the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the period each of the applicants should serve before the date of the first review of their sentences should be quashed and that each applicant should be given the opportunity to make written representations after he had been informed of the judicial opinion regarding the period he should serve before review ( post , pp. 963B–C , 969A–C , 973F–H , 974A–B , 977B–D , 979C–F , 980E–G , 981F–G , 983C–D , 984C–E , 985B–C , 986H — 987A , F–G , 988C–E , G–H , 989B–C , D–E , 991B–C , 992F–H , 993B–E , F–G ) . |
| 17 | ( i ) When a prisoner is sentenced to imprisonment for life , within a short time the trial judge and the Lord Chief Justice are invited by the Secretary of State to express their views on the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence . |
| 18 | I conclude that the court should grant declarations in the following terms : ( 1 ) The Secretary of State is required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State sets the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence . |
| 19 | ( 2 ) Before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make such representations , the Secretary of State is required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence , and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which is relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for these purposes . |
| 20 | There are other things he has , on his own admission , not fully investigated , like the value of the DRG properties , or which part of the DRG business he would keep after the break up . |
| 21 | Edward III agreed that the realm of Scotland ‘ shall remain for ever to the eminent prince Lord Robert , by the grace of God the illustrious king of Scots ’ , and he renounced any right he might have in the realm of Scotland . |
| 22 | For that right he must negotiate with the citizens of Hebron . |
| 23 | Each day he would arrive at the theatre at two or three in the afternoon , long before the 7.30pm performance . |
| 24 | So I said There 's no way that what you 've just told me will go in an hour , I said It 'll take at least a couple of hours and what about all the small stuff he 'll have in the house ? |
| 25 | He also believed , first , that France was unlikely to be able to secure an alliance with Britain ( because of the two countries ' disagreement about the Near East in 1840 ) ; second , that Britain might support Russia in the event of a Russian attack on the Ottoman Empire ( because of the Anglo-Russian discussions which had taken place in London in 1844 ) ; and third , that in any event he could count on the support of Austria ( because of the assistance he had rendered Vienna in putting down the Hungarians in 1849 ) . |
| 26 | At the end of an outdoor games session Roger encouraged the pupils to risk themselves by attempting to catch a cricket ball he would throw into the air . |
| 27 | It was in this way that he was thinking when , with Lili by his side and their suitcases on a trolley he would abandon at the tube-station entrance , he looked up and met the eyes of Adam Verne-Smith . |
| 28 | Was he thinking about the oats he would have in the morning ? |
| 29 | Yeah oh yes he oh and he was erm being better educated than the majority of people in the Pleck he used to stand outside the Brown Lion to read the newspaper out to them cos they could n't read , and he attended all the weddings , all the funerals and er made the wills out and he almost was the father confessor for the Pleck , and when the old steam tram came off the lines down in the Pleck , when there was a steam train coming through there , he was the man who put it on the rails again . |
| 30 | It was not the last argument he would have with the authorities over pay , though this was the only series he missed for that reason . |