Example sentences of "he [verb] [adj] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | my Lord , this is a problem which erm your Lordship 's had submissions from both parties and of course it goes to specialist separates , first of all one identifies , one takes one and strikes out the defending clauses within the agreements that infringe article eighty five on then applies the , the test of severance to see whether the residual agreements remain or stand , but we certainly have not depleted that the entire arrangement avoid but we pleaded the restrictions are avoid , my Lord er and that 's important because it could lead to consequence and we 're pleading it that and if for example er power in the erm standard form agency agreement was rendered void because it was an unlawful restriction , it does n't mean to say that erm an agent er a name might not of instructed an agent to write business , what we 're saying is they may not have instructed him to write all of the business that he did in fact did er write for example L M X spiral and , now if , if a particular defendant can say well have I been well you know proper position that I would of been and the restrictions not been in place I would of instructed the agent to do precisely what he did , then of course he has no defence , that 's a que that 's a point , if he says well erm I , the facts suggest and established that I would never , ever have allowed the agents to underwr to write L M X spiral business and , and the only reason he was able to do that was because of the restrictions then he can escape liability for that part of the business underwritten |
| 2 | what , him knocking one of the cupboard doors or something John I did n't hear anything |
| 3 | He liked the familiarity ; it made him feel one of the clan . |
| 4 | I 've seen him like this in the library — grim as hell one minute , chortling the next . ’ |
| 5 | But police officers found him lying drunk outside the door . |
| 6 | Well bracksy and dead 's the same , they got him lying dead in the wood away down here at the . |
| 7 | Late that night , after the children have finally gone to bed , Felicity finds him lying full-length on the playroom floor once again , still absorbed . |
| 8 | He had completed a first draft by July 1941 , but he told Hayward that he was not pleased with the result because he was over-conscious of what he was attempting to do : " he was always aware of this problem in his work , and it had effectively led him to abandon much of the poetry he had been writing in his Harvard years . |
| 9 | ‘ I let him read some of The Journal of a Fallen Angel , as a special treat . |
| 10 | If the job surveyor is given autonomy in certain areas then the manager must ensure that he has a system of job control which enables him to keep abreast of the progress of the job and be able to compare surveyor and contractor performance in one operation . |
| 11 | His office was just across the square and the sight of him took some of the fright away . |
| 12 | Bert said he was tired , but she followed him , and found him standing alone in the room he had shared with Pat . |
| 13 | No oceanographer , when Balboa first strolled down to the gently lapping waters on the morning of that day , he had no reason to suppose that the ceremony — which would involve him standing ankle-deep in the water , the better to annex it — could not begin on schedule . |
| 14 | Cameron knew how good his son really was , and encouraged him to break free of the pop straitjacket . |
| 15 | Well , let him get used to the idea ! |
| 16 | I make an encouraging grunt , to help him get involved in the story . |
| 17 | It 's perfectly possible , if somewhat unwise , for him to charge clean across the battlefield and engage the enemy on turn one . |
| 18 | Before I left , I expressed the hope that he could pay another visit to Oxford , though this time a purely private one , and I see that I wrote to him repeating this towards the end of term — the final term — because on 17 June he replied to my home address : |
| 19 | Repeating the verbal descriptions is specially important for the patient with perceptual and speech difficulties , as it helps him to become familiar with the planning needed for each item of clothing . |
| 20 | Nor do I want him to become blase about the violence many of these packages feature — he might get the notion that beating up people in real life is no big thing . |
| 21 | So , his Bengal is also an invented framework , a device , and yet a device which , he hopes , will enable him to show more of the truth than simple realism could . |
| 22 | Would he tell us then what he believes the impact of the er pay settlements will have on the spending he 's allowed local authorities because it seems to me there must either be a cut in staff er and a cut in services if they 're gon na keep within the the money that he made available at the time when he was n't aware of these settlements . |
| 23 | In a lengthy report on his first ten years in office he made much of the fact that , whereas " Russian was scarcely to be heard " in the western provinces at the time of his appointment , it now had " an indisputable primacy " . |
| 24 | He talked of the future ; he made light of the present and its difficulties until Lucy lost sight of them too . |
| 25 | In 1961 he travelled to Brazil where he lived first under the name Peter Hochbichler until taking the name Gerhard in 1976 . |
| 26 | ‘ He lived alone on the hillside and spent most of his time praying . |
| 27 | One was apt to overlook Bill Lawrence , who nevertheless was there on the spot like all the rest , and able to move even more privately , since he lived alone in the lodge cottage , further along the Silcaster road . |
| 28 | He lived hard by the cathedral . |
| 29 | He unlocked one of the desk drawers , and brought out a battered tin cashbox . |
| 30 | He laid much of the blame on the growth of incomes outstripping that of consumer goods production , and attributed this primarily to mistakes in granting autonomy to state enterprises and in regulating the co-operative sector . |