Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [noun] [prep] the [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 | God is a planner and he has plans for the British Isles . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In his next letter , on his feet again , he thanks Theo for the enclosed 100 francs . |
| 9 | ‘ No , Apparently he wants access to the lower road . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He shows conflict in the very heart of the royal family , injunctions to " brotherly love " constantly at odds with manifestations of brotherly hate . |
| 13 | With his wife , , he grows tomatoes on the low veld of the North-East Transvaal . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | He sees God as the unseen power pervading all things , the sum-total of life , the indefinable , the formless , the nameless . |
| 16 | He cites evidence from the developing nervous system . |
| 17 | He charges £40 for the first hour and £25 thereafter — which neatly incorporates the call-out fee in the first hour . |
| 18 | He keeps fat in the limpid integument |
| 19 | The literary bias of British film reviewing has rarely been quite so plainly stated — Coward is the established name , his reputation guaranteed by years of theatrical success , hence he takes precedence over the mere maker of pictures . |
| 20 | In his fantasias and toccatas it is not difficult to trace Venetian influences , particularly in the six fantasias ‘ in the manner of an echo ’ where he takes advantage of the two manuals of the organ to ‘ echo ’ motives duly marked f and p . |
| 21 | Finally , I 'd refer you to erm the Secretary of State 's decision letter of the twenty sixth of November nineteen eighty where in paragraph one he takes note of the recent justification and in paragraph six four , he states that overall , the Secretary of State broadly approves the main objective of the housing policies of the plan of reducing inward migration into the county . |
| 22 | In order to define mental alienation and abnormality , the psychiatrist must first know what is normal , accepted and socially approved ; since these vary in different cultures and subcultures he will be completely at sea outside his own milieu unless he takes account of the cultural factor . |
| 23 | He pokes fun at the modern person who says : |
| 24 | Though he professes scorn for the outmoded quaintness of things Victorian , Philip 's conception of life is modelled largely on the Victorian novel and its Edwardian successors . |
| 25 | His public status is reasserted in the final confrontation with Williams , where he speaks verse to the common soldier 's prose , yet rewards his honesty ( IV.viii.24–72 ) . |
| 26 | He ignores information on the left even though he has no left visual field loss . |
| 27 | Newson ( HAS March 11 ) when he expresses concern at the rapid decline of the industry and the rather callous abandonment of the skilled workforce within it , a testament no doubt which many a Durham and Yorkshire mining village could bear witness to . |
| 28 | He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've seen the way he gives confidence to the sick , in spite of his youth . |
| 30 | In one large painting and a suite of related prints he pays homage to the great minimalist by superimposing texts relating to Newman 's career over images of his work . |