Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the car which has been sent for him comes in along the odd little elevated motorway , only four lanes wide , most of the city seems to be below eye-level . |
| 2 | ‘ He plays more on the left hand side which is not my favourite position , I prefer to play on the right . |
| 3 | He skips over for the bloody |
| 4 | He has received a card with drawings of gangsters on it and threats of a ‘ warm welcome ’ if he turns up for the second-round tie . |
| 5 | He points out in the British Journal of Educational Psychology that the results of these schemes have been disappointing and it is doubtful whether they have any permanent effect on intelligence . |
| 6 | As he goes on to the next , I glance at his fingers . |
| 7 | I 've been reading Richard Hoggart 's The Uses of Literacy on this journey ; he goes on about the working class not being able to think " abstractly , generally , metaphysically or politically . |
| 8 | Beckett remarks in Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in progress , that Joyce 's work is ‘ not about something : it is that something itself ( Beckett 1929 and 1972 : 14 ) , and he goes on in the central part of his oeuvre , the trilogy Molloy , Malone Dies , The Unnamable ( 1950 — 2 ) , to create a kind of autonomy of his own — — as the Unnamable remarks , ‘ it all boils down to a question of words … all words , there 's nothing else ’ ( 1959 and 1979 : 308 ) . |
| 9 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 10 | Now , however , Freud expands that concept as well and interestingly enough he goes back to the first term he used for repression . |
| 11 | But he lines up for the Welsh All-Blacks today , hoping to take another step towards erasing the memory . |
| 12 | We are delighted to welcome Mark and his team to Rentokil , and he looks forward to the many leads which will no doubt be forthcoming . |
| 13 | He glances round at the seventeen people — who are they ? : students ? , support-workers ? , staff ? — squeezed around the two tables . |
| 14 | He glances down at the final layer of glasses . |
| 15 | By way of contrast , he writes disparagingly of the multinational company that concentrates on idiosyncratic consumer preferences , and gives two reasons why he believes such organisations will lose the long-term commercial battle . |
| 16 | He writes brilliantly of the great circumnavigation of Magellan , of his own voyages around the Horn , through the Panama Canal or up the peak in Darien where Balboa ( not Keats 's stout Cortez ) first spied the Pacific . |
| 17 | Hynes catches adroitly the flavour of poetry and politics in a period when even poetry found it impossible to be politically neutral , and he writes perceptively of the underlying links between such disparate writers as , for example , Isherwood and Greene . |
| 18 | With true teen anger he latches on to the witty cynicism of the two Lenny 's , Cohen and Bruce , but fires them up with youthful vitriol . |
| 19 | Although the Labour Party as a whole has not taken a stand on the political position of the monarchy , Tony Benn has expressed the view that these two powers of the Crown should be transferred to the Speaker of the House of Commons because he stands apart from the political parties and is directly answerable to the Commons for the conduct of the chair in a way that does not apply to the position of the Crown . |
| 20 | He stands there amongst the dusty old vases , interiors barnacled with crusty water stains , exteriors greasy with fly shit . |
| 21 | One man who could have a busy day on Sunday if he drops in on the above conference will be Michael Billington , the theatre critic of The Guardian . |
| 22 | He cares neither for the broad sweep of grand strategy nor for the narrow focus of specific campaigns , so he ignores both government archives and the memoirs of the great and the good . |
| 23 | He swerves deep into the hard shoulder . |
| 24 | Finally about quarter to eight he shoots through to the other room and finds Dick and Joy Hardy there , they were supposed to be picking Gwen up and bringing her round . |
| 25 | He spins round at the third barrel . |
| 26 | If he hits one then he bounds about inside the unit , bouncing from foe to foe , until he spins out of the other side , leaving the enemy completely devastated . |
| 27 | He passes by on the other side of the road and once he 's well past I pop up to watch him through the rear window . |
| 28 | After the first player has had his turn , he hands on to the second player . |
| 29 | This is what it means to say that Dostoevsky brushes against Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov as he reaches back towards the underground man . |
| 30 | he hangs apart from the two strong women , |