Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He only comes to the odd party . |
| 2 | Now he just brawls with the bad guys . |
| 3 | He still trails behind the greatest points-scorer of all , Australian Michael Lynagh . |
| 4 | Oh , oh , well he 's still reversing , he 's waving his arm about for everyone to overtake him but , he still sits in the same position oh dear |
| 5 | He still joins in the traditional New Year shooting at Sandringham , but , apart from that family outing , he seldom bothers with shooting birds nowadays . |
| 6 | A fellow of mediocre talent will remain a mediocrity , whether he travels or not ; but one of superior talent ( which without impiety I can not deny that I possess ) will go to seed , if he always remains in the same place . |
| 7 | He never gives his name , and he always asks for the same dedication . |
| 8 | He always looks for the best in people or in any given situation . |
| 9 | My friend Mike with the big house has n't phoned in yet has he either he usually phones in the last part of the programme . |
| 10 | He also objects to the now-common term ‘ mothering ’ . |
| 11 | He also points to the ecological problems that this industrialisation of farming and forestry has brought about , to the increased reliance that has to be placed on chemical pest and disease control under monocultures . |
| 12 | He also enthuses about the extraordinary steam trains he has recently seen for himself , reading from a journal which he has been writing while away . |
| 13 | Thus , Becker , in his historical survey of the numerous monographs published on the subject in the hundred years up to 1950 , notes that the vast majority had reached that conclusion ; though he also comments on the many different interpretations that were placed on the evidence . |
| 14 | If Eliot seeks to draw on the power of an ancient ritual , he also aims at the horrifying frisson obtained by re-enacting the ritual with the opposite of its traditional meaning . |
| 15 | That makes me think he must have connections with the Jordanian Government — he probably works for the Jordanian Secret Service , either full time or in some ad hoc capacity . |
| 16 | Then , against the advice of all , he embarks upon a final desperate attempt , which he later describes as the worst mistake he ever made . |
| 17 | Each of these alter egos is unaware of the others , so that he is untroubled by his derivation from the common ancestor he unwittingly shares with the many other Polkinghornes who branched off in the course of some quantum mechanical act of measurement . |
| 18 | However , it remains to be seen how completely the principle of antibiosis , or chemical warfare between species , has been exploited , and whether the capacity of microbes to adapt to their environment will outstrip the capacity of man to find means of destroying not only those which are his enemies but also those which are his friends and which he unwittingly eliminates by the overzealous distribution of his new agents . |
| 19 | NEIL KINNOCK yesterday declared himself fit to be Prime Minister , by claiming in an end-of-conference message that he now speaks for the British people . |
| 20 | Mr Milburn said : ‘ These figures show how long a patient waits before he even gets on the official waiting list . ’ |
| 21 | He even puts in the occasional bottle of claret . |
| 22 | After about half a minute , tap the person on your left who has now received the power and he then leads through the same activities you did , plus some new ones such as touching toes , jumping in the air , hopping and so on . |
| 23 | He then reports to the Public Accounts Committee who will follow up a selection of his reports . |
| 24 | He sometimes speaks of the scientific method as one of the possible methods of responding to doubt , sometimes as a ‘ way of life ’ , but he always seems to see it as optional though supremely rational . |
| 25 | To feminists he is a New Man , pro-choice on the abortion issue and married to a strong , career-minded woman whom he freely acknowledges as the driving force behind his win . |
| 26 | Well the proposals in the Good Report as I said for final salary schemes is that a third of the trustees should be elected from he actually says from the active members er we know and comments that in great length a about the difficulties that it would be to er actually er elect er er members who are pensioners or from the deferreds Er I find that er somewhat simplistic view point in that er er the pensioners at least get communications from the administrators of the scheme every month , they get a monthly cheque , so it sh should n't be beyond the wit of man to be able to er be able to contact the pensioners and organise pensioner meetings but pensioner trustees to be elected . |
| 27 | From the terms in which he subsequently refers to the longest of the fragments , we can confirm that " The Greek State " represents a short-lived attempt to widen the scope of a book whose central concern with tragedy was already determined . |
| 28 | He certainly belongs to the new breed , welcoming the demise of ‘ the political correctness of comedy ’ , and making ‘ a conscious effort to avoid clichéd topics like sex and news-based subjects . ’ |
| 29 | Roxburgh meanwhile will surpass the all-time Scottish managerial record of 61 games he currently shares with the late Jock Stein when Scotland tackle Italy and Malta to wind up the campaign . |