Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [prep] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's a very bright man , Michael Howard , but it 's quite clear that he 's much more concerned with grabbing the headlines and finding scapegoats , than with taking action through law that will actually improve the chance , both of preventing crime and of detecting crime , and then even more so , deterring people from re-offending , and it 's most distressing to see that when research showed that a particular non-custodial method of punishment is effective in perhaps fifty or seventy or eighty percent of cases , whereas prison is not , he goes for prison , he goes for picking on squatters , he goes for picking on the defendants right to silence so that we can see more people like er , jailed when they were innocent . |
| 2 | While he persists in looking for the golden egg before the chicken is even hatched the terrorists will continue to exact a mounting price in blood for his dithering approach to security . |
| 3 | He starts by sitting on the side of the plinth , and the physiotherapist may use mobilizing techniques to reduce any spasticity in the patient 's trunk or arm . |
| 4 | He speaks with feeling about the magic of a solid , round arch : ‘ You go into wonderful places like York Minster with its beautiful tracery , but , for me , the sheer strength and solidity of Romanesque architecture — its robustness and simplicity — are endlessly fascinating . |
| 5 | For the speaker can not settle what he means by settling on the effects it will produce as he can settle what he is setting out to mean in saying it . |
| 6 | Recognizing that people do act according to established beliefs and pre-existing knowledge systems , he focuses upon distinguishing between the establishment of those beliefs ( which he calls ‘ ideologies ’ ) and action in accordance with those beliefs . |
| 7 | He carries the burden of having been sworn in just before the US operations began , and he remains in hiding under the protection of the United States . |