Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 At the most extreme , Pascale ( 1984 : 65 ) suggests that rationality as such is an ethnocentric cul-de-sac , and the standard business-journal exercise of learning-from-the-Japanese for him boils down to a flight from rationality and emulating the inspired but erratic hit-or-miss business behaviour of Soichiro Honda .
2 Leeds have agreed to pay Wigan £5,000 for every five first-team games he plays up to a maximum of £25,000 .
3 He drifts back towards the floor .
4 He turns back to the patient , his expression gentle again — there is no trace of a professional ‘ caring ’ in his words or the jarring chord of insincere concern in his voice .
5 Every Sunday he turns out at a hall on a council scheme in Edinburgh to play 5-a-side football with his friends , trying by his own admission to re-live some of the opportunities he missed when he left Carrick Vale Secondary School at 15 to pursue a professional football career in London .
6 This , he points out in a letter of December 1814 , was ‘ a passionate expression uttered incautiously ’ .
7 In the next step of the argument , he then said , well , religion is a transference , and therefore a form of infantilism , so now he seems to be criticizing religion , but if he 's criti criticizing religion by saying it 's an illusion , surely he 's jeopardizing civilization , because the danger , as he points out in the book , if you take religion away from people , you say , look , this is just an illusion , God does n't exist .
8 I have tried taking the castle out , but this only makes him unhappy , so he goes over to the heater and swims underneath it .
9 He goes over to the bedside table and pours a glass of water .
10 He goes up to a kiosk in Wenceslas Square and asks for a copy of Rude Pravo ( Red Truth ) , the Party newspaper .
11 He watches his expression carefully as he goes up to a beggar and puts a coin in his tin .
12 He goes up to the , he goes up to the bartender , he says excuse me , why is there a bear sitting over there ?
13 He 's , he 's , he 's jump , he , he , he goes up like a jump jet he goes
14 Howard ca n't help laughing to himself as he goes down in the lift .
15 He goes in for a sort of hall-of-mirrors self-impersonation , telling people how he would have done the murder if he had done it ( which he has ) .
16 If , however , he goes in with the public on that day , conceals himself , and takes the painting on the following day , he is not guilty .
17 When he 's dried out , he goes back on the road , an entertainer for whom the drug of applause and audience-love assuages his insecurity .
18 So he cries and he goes back to the beach .
19 Aston Villa manager Ron Atkinson could also run the gauntlet of hostility at Hillsborough today when he goes back to the club he left under acrimonious circumstances two seasons ago .
20 and er , he said if he 's not better , any better when he goes back in a fortnight he 's gon na send him to a chest specialist , but you 've been a lot better have n't you ?
21 So he goes out into the storm and into wild nature , together with ‘ the wolf and the owl ’ , while his daughters and son-in-law close their doors on him ( 306ff . ) .
22 The next morning he goes out for a walk round the town .
23 He goes out to the kitchen to hide his tears .
24 Then he wakes me up when he goes out of the door in the mornings .
25 When he goes out in the evening he is invariably with his mates whose influence may encourage him to take risks .
26 JEREMY McWilliams faces the big one tomorrow when , as the first Ulster rider in the newly constituted 500cc World motor cycling championship , he lines up against the cream of the international circus at Eastern Creek , Sydney , for the Australian Grand Prix , the first round in the series .
27 The carer stands with her legs on either side of the patient 's knees , places her hands under the patient 's seat , pulls his body-weight forward and in one movement lifts his pelvis and pivots him so that he sits down onto the chair .
28 " Andrew is a very complex character as a man , but when he 's composing , he 's just like anybody else — he sits down at the piano looking for the tune , " explains Black .
29 if you like the germ of the idea of the poem is alive in his mind because he sits down at the page thinking I 'm going to write a poem .
30 Likeable , cordial , he sits down in a chair facing her husband and herself and proceeds to converse with them .
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