Example sentences of "he [verb] [subord] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He refused to consider what he regarded as interfering in the judicial process and what they saw as moderating his policy of harassing the Free Church . |
| 2 | If he moves into an enemy then he is engaged in hand-to-hand combat and must fight in the following hand-to-hand combat round ( he counts as charging in the first round as is also the case with magically induced movement ) . |
| 3 | Thus Marco Polo confidently assures us that the Andaman Islands were inhabited by dog-headed cannibals , while the Amazon women , whom he reported as living on an island near Socotra , turn up again , in identical form , in Columbus ' report on his second voyage to the West Indies , only this time they are inhabitants of Martinique . |
| 4 | I say that on behalf of the party he beat as opposed to the one that he put into third place — the Conservative party , which was marginalised in that by-election . |
| 5 | When he does produce these propositions he does so through ironic positive politeness , more precisely through superficially observing the approbation maxim : Anderson 's irony here is much more successful than that which he uses when arguing with the captain in scene six ( where his ironic statements concerning human rights in Czechoslovakia actually prompt the captain to ask further awkward questions ( pp. 70 – 1 ) ) , because he exploits the potential ambiguity of the academic discourse appropriate to a lecture . |
| 6 | In this article I would like to have a look at the nuts and bolts of his style , with the emphasis being shifted to the devices that he uses as opposed to the specific parts that he plays . |
| 7 | ‘ Journey of the Magi ’ , written in 1927 , contains not only material quoted in Eliot 's 1926 survey , ‘ Lancelot Andrewes ’ , and recollections from Eliot 's own life ( some of which he catalogued when reminiscing in The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism ) . |
| 8 | Instead he describes a crisis which he sees as spreading throughout the entire penal system , affecting other penal disposals such as probation , community service , fines and so on . |
| 9 | In the later theory of Freud , it is this energy which he sees as derived from the death instincts , which are innate destructive energy forces . |
| 10 | He was once credited with bringing back from Sweden the secret of how the mill worked , which he discovered while disguised as a wandering fiddler ( hence the nickname , ‘ Fiddler ’ Foley ) ; but it now seems clear that the first slitting mill in England was set up at Dartford , Kent , in 1590 . |
| 11 | The male does not attack it but , when mounting the tiny animal , simply performs the perfectly normal neck-bite that he employs when copulating with a female . |
| 12 | Naville also identified a series of problems with work with automated technology which he characterises as arising from a marked increase in mobility . |
| 13 | ‘ It is a lie , ’ he stormed when quizzed by a TV reporter . |
| 14 | We have criticised the building-up of such a huge nuclear arsenal , but my hon. Friend may have noticed that President Yeltsin is talking of reducing the number of warheads to 2,500 , which he regards as reducing to a deterrent . |
| 15 | GRAHAM TAYLOR yesterday vowed not to quit as England manager — but admitted he feels as hounded on the back pages as the Royal Family are on the front . |
| 16 | Marshall deduced that Wickham wanted to surprise the man , to see how he reacted when confronted with the fact the police knew a death threat had been typed on his office machine . |
| 17 | Wycliffe left the house feeling disorientated as he did when emerging from the darkness and isolation of a cinema into reality and the light of day . |
| 18 | In 1933 he wrote as follows in a lecture at Cambridge University : |
| 19 | Huntington is shrewd when he reveals many implications in Wells 's prose , and ends by making useful distinctions between utopia and dystopia , which he reviews as related , and anti-utopia , which he views as opposed to the other two . |
| 20 | The accused 's intentions are best proved from any admission he makes when interviewed by the police . |
| 21 | He answered the second question , which he considered as turning on the effect of section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 , by concluding that the council had a cause of action in libel against the defendants on the basis of the pleaded statement of claim . |