Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [adj] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Contrary to older views — which saw him as out of favour in papal government under Celestine III ( from the Boboni family ) — he signs most of the papal privileges in the seven years between 1191 and 1197 . |
| 2 | This is one of the main reasons for the statement that an engineer can only do his own job well if he understands those of the other functions in his company . |
| 3 | I do not know how he reconciles that with the 59 per cent . |
| 4 | After Andrew Stavanger 's wife died he turned the house into three flats , and he lives alone in the top flat . |
| 5 | He wants one of the chairs , Bobby , out of the Bobby , he wants one of the big chairs upstairs out of your room . |
| 6 | He says some of the M-forty accidents have been a result of drivers suffering from fatigue . |
| 7 | And he describes some of the new episodes as rubbish : |
| 8 | The tourist will rent a small receiver for around £2 and press a button as he approaches any of the major buildings and monuments , where a small transmitter will then spout cultural , historical , artistic and commercial information at him in a choice of Italian , German , English or Spanish , at any hour of the day or night . |
| 9 | Charles Ryder , whom he introduces first to the enchanted world of the great English house and then to Venice , would give all he ever had , and far more , to live in such high ceremonial heavens — ‘ I was drowning in honey , stingless ’ — and is forever shut out . |
| 10 | He wears white for the same reason that he never drinks raksi , and that he 's eaten no food since morning . |
| 11 | He cites some of the outstanding performances in C&P — ‘ and we have quite a number to our credit . |
| 12 | He takes one of the smaller cars and drives himself . |
| 13 | Just turned forty , Frank is married to his job , his wife has left him for a colleague , and when he encounters the sexually predatory Helen ( Ellen Barkin ) he breaks one of the first rules in the book by falling for a suspect . |
| 14 | He investigates some of the resulting attitudes to money , such as that of the miser , for whom , instead of acting as a tool , money becomes a barrier between means and ends ; this is also the case with excessive extravagance , where the overcoming of price as a constraint becomes the source and end of action . |
| 15 | He attributes this to the unique chewing methods of the ornithopods , and suggests perhaps it was the flowering plants that promoted the decline of the sauropods and their gizzard-stone type of digestion . |
| 16 | This is what matters for Marx , and he seems cautious about the primitive promiscuity hypothesized by Morgan . |
| 17 | He seems convinced of the inherent stability of the hydrogen bomb — after all , he does build the damn things . |
| 18 | And Murphy himself often looks edgy , as if he 's trying to button his lip ( he seems happiest with the funny improvised boy 's talk routines ) . |
| 19 | Yet sometimes he feels nostalgic for the Californian variety , just as an honest man dining in the Tour d'Argent can decently long for a cheeseburger . |
| 20 | As a matter of fact , he owns one of the largest and most innovative architectural companies in Europe . |
| 21 | When it comes to third world development the Bishop says he gives each of the three main parties two cheers . |
| 22 | Okay so this strikes us as a rather eccentric claim er he does qualify it , he says that there may be cases where there are n't enough people of independent means in a country to present themselves , he does n't mean England here he means some of the dependent territories and then members of parliament should be paid compensation rather than a salary . |
| 23 | If a defendant merely carries on a hobby , e. g. of buying , refurbishing and re-selling cars , a court might find that a transaction made in pursuance of the hobby , e.g. when he sells one of the refurbished cars , is not ‘ in the course of a trade or business , ’ Blackmore v. Belamy ( 1983 D. C. ) . |
| 24 | In other cases an innocent recipient may be protected at least until he becomes aware of the confidential nature of the information . |
| 25 | The farm worker has become resigned to this public indifference , although he becomes annoyed by the continuing refusal to recognize the importance of his contribution to food production . |
| 26 | The co-pilot sits on a jump seat just aft of the pedestal , from where he operates all of the normal controls within reach , and indicates those out of reach to the instructor . |
| 27 | Now I want a top three medal , and I genuinely believe I can get one , ’ he said at the Luton social club where he runs one of the few silat classes in this country — there are less than a hundred active practitoners of the martial art in Britain . |
| 28 | Of those commonly identified as potential contenders , he commands some of the shortest odds . |
| 29 | He believes that of the three , research , policy and practice , it is practice which has the greatest potential to achieve change , both positively and negatively , and that the researcher is dependent upon the practitioner , even where the policy maker defines the research brief . |
| 30 | After a lifetime in politics he knows all about the rough and tumble of public life . |