Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He plays darts for the local pub , and his wife Anne , has joined the Womens Institute . |
| 2 | George O K I 've said that he represents America in the Cold War , merely because of his name , but there 's actually more to it than that because he erm , he believes in history and in the past and his values are very old fashioned . |
| 3 | He reveres Tagore as the great modern writer of Bengal , but he looks at him disrespectfully , as if he was applying a Brechtian alienation-effect on him . |
| 4 | When a Quebequois or a Torontonian gets fed up with life 30 degrees below freezing , he heads south to the Caribbean not west . |
| 5 | He has sympathy for the small scale dealers : ‘ They 've been brought up in an entrepreneurial country under Thatcher where they 've been taught to make money . |
| 6 | Today , closer to Clapton ( geographically ) than he 's been in a long while , Anthony Newley is relishing the chance to prove he 's still up to a tough dramatic performance eight shows a week and , to follow , he has plans for a musicalised Richard III . |
| 7 | God is a planner and he has plans for the British Isles . |
| 8 | It is the individual customer who is most vulnerable when competition is lacking , and the Bill concentrates on improving his position and on giving the regulator more powers to stand up for him when he has disputes with the regulated utilities . |
| 9 | Robbins now draws more and more attention to the text itself , by indulging in a dialogue with his projected reader to celebrate reaching his hundredth chapter or by rejecting the claims of traditional literary decorum : ‘ happily , your author is not under contract to any of the muses who supply the reputable writers , and thus he has access to a considerable variety of sentences to spread and stretch from margin to margin … ’ ( 124 ) . |
| 10 | And £1.5m-rated midfielder Gary Owers is still waiting to discover whether he needs surgery on a troublesome groin injury . |
| 11 | However , he needs Lennie in a strange way , and he rarely really means what he says . |
| 12 | In his next letter , on his feet again , he thanks Theo for the enclosed 100 francs . |
| 13 | He thanks Paul with a curt nod . |
| 14 | He transfers assets to a discretionary trust . |
| 15 | Thus at a car auction a categoric and clear oral disclaimer announced by the auctioneer immediately before he accepts bids on a particular car could lie an effective disclaimer in relation to the odometer reading on that car and in that case the disclaimer would protect both the auctioneer and the vendor . |
| 16 | ‘ No , Apparently he wants access to the lower road . ’ |
| 17 | He wants approval from the full parliament , as well as the environment committee , in time for it to be discussed at a meeting of environment ministers in June . |
| 18 | Sometimes it is tempting for an engineer to become so preoccupied with his own problems in an investigation , particularly if he needs to delve deeply into one particular feature or component that has failed , that he loses sight of the ultimate objective — to establish the cause of the accident . |
| 19 | He shows conflict in the very heart of the royal family , injunctions to " brotherly love " constantly at odds with manifestations of brotherly hate . |
| 20 | GRAHAM Taylor will not be offered a new contract by the FA — unless he leads England to a successful World Cup . |
| 21 | With his wife , , he grows tomatoes on the low veld of the North-East Transvaal . |
| 22 | He sees discovery as an instantaneous revelation or sudden perception . |
| 23 | He sees women as a movable feast — and himself as first in line at the table . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I have put my Spirit upon him ; he will bring forth justice to the nations ’ says God through the prophet And now the Spirit had come , and Mark 's account of the baptism makes it abundantly clear that he sees Jesus as the Messianic Son and the Suffering Servant , equipped or his … stupendous task with the Spirit of God promised for the end-time . |
| 25 | Lear 's failure to judge his family properly , in that he sees things in a materialistic sense rather than in a true sense of love is amplified into the conclusion of a country split against itself . |
| 26 | He sees God as the unseen power pervading all things , the sum-total of life , the indefinable , the formless , the nameless . |
| 27 | THE PEACEMAKER : He sees gifts as an excellent way of atoning for sins , but can put himself at risk by overstating himself — giving an exquisite set of English porcelain when a book token would do . |
| 28 | He sees jobs as a key issue . |
| 29 | As to complicating life — I suspect he sees complication as a masculine domain — for us women would n't want to worry ‘ our pretty little heads ’ over ‘ complicated ’ matters . |
| 30 | He cites evidence from the developing nervous system . |