Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he wins he turns up the next week as if nothing 's happened — and as if he has n't got a penny to his name , that 's the difference between Seve and others — what sets him apart a bit , I suppose . |
| 2 | He 's extremely cheerful , if somewhat misguided , as he points out the many features of the room , and mentions that the public rooms in the Cottage will be opened at seven o'clock . |
| 3 | He points out the surprising truth that an accurate random sample of 1,000 people will work whether it is taken from a population of 5,000 , five million or 50 million . |
| 4 | He does n't like going to school for a start , but he goes else the old man beats him up . |
| 5 | I 'm gon na have a wee Bill 's bloody worse , he stands there , he looks out the bloody window as much as any bugger . |
| 6 | She was afraid then , rather as a skier might feel when he looks down the steep whiteness of a dangerous slope , or a high diver who seems far above the water , but the sensation was so unusual to her that she could n't be sure that it was entirely unpleasant still strongly mixed , as it was , with curiosity . |
| 7 | But another thing is you see where Sandra lives , you saying that where she lives is apparently erm P C , now I do n't know him , but she does he lives up the same road and when people park did n't she tell you this when we were coming down ? |
| 8 | Tonight he holds back the ill-concealed shudders and caresses the swelling head , he bends and kisses the skin exposed . |
| 9 | He has just the one daughter and that girl has given him great cause for concern . |
| 10 | Whatever the reason he has neither the spiritual character nor the material resources to redeem Ruth . |
| 11 | He simply replies that he has n't the faintest idea . |
| 12 | He has n't the faintest idea of how things really stand . ’ |
| 13 | And he has n't the least idea of how much it will come to . |
| 14 | Every golfer in the world experiences that awful feeling of helplessness when he stands over a putt and knows that he has not the slightest chance of getting the ball near the hole , let alone into it . |
| 15 | The hon. Gentleman is really behaving disgracefully — — when he accuses British Rail of negligence before an inquiry has even begun , and when he has not the slightest idea of what caused that accident . |
| 16 | Rollnik , for example , finds that he has roughly the same number of really bright students in a year now as in 1960 . |
| 17 | Spencer propounded the law of equal freedom which was not unlike the first of Rawls 's principles of justice : ‘ Every man is free to do that which he wills provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man . ’ |
| 18 | The top riders never appear to be hurrying — in fact Mark Todd often appears to be quite casual as he clocks up the fastest time of the day . |
| 19 | And the next morning when they get up Ruth makes his way into the town , and he goes to where all the , the men sit and they talk , the city gate , and there he he searches out the nearer relative of Ruth 's . |
| 20 | So I shouted to Paul to come and have a look at it and he says well the cheeky bugger . |
| 21 | Because that , he did mention that he says so the next thing is the home 'll have to go . |
| 22 | He describes how the Digital Equipment Corporation at Ayr have pursued quality and flexibility by introducing high performance , self-managing work teams . |
| 23 | He describes how the basic system has been tested and extended throughout the Authority , location by location and application by application . |
| 24 | He digs up the bloody garden round the |
| 25 | Pearse identifies the same process as the Kulak path when he shows how the incorporative drive draws out what he calls the progressive element among the peasantry ( Pearse 1975 ) . |
| 26 | He shows how the same events can be given at least three explanations , each related to different facts , or to the same facts differently interpreted . |
| 27 | Schafer ( 1981 ) offers a useful historical survey in which he shows how the founding fathers of modern linguistics , de Saussure and Bloomfield , reacting against the total neglect of speech in the pre-existing traditions of rhetoric and grammar , asserted the primacy of speech . |
| 28 | Woods ' concepts of reality and illusion become blurred and he ends up the living incarnation of the television lie , developing a slit in his stomach that can accept video cassettes , guns , hands — anything . |
| 29 | He cuts out the middle men and women — the dreaded parents — and goes straight for the hearts and minds of kids . |
| 30 | He recollects vividly the outstanding singles performances of Bill Thompson and Diane Underwood and with the final match standing at 2-all his team went on to dominate the doubles and lift the trophy . |