Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far , the free world has liked him both for having been , and for having ceased to be , a communist of a sort , for the freedoms he seeks in matters of literary form , for the modern inventiveness and manipulation of the literary games he plays , games that none the less commemorate , as he acknowledges , Cervantes , Sterne and Diderot , and for the sexual games which he plays in an age when , as he once put it , sexuality has ceased to be taboo . |
| 2 | In a moment of weary despair , he turns to a colleague and says , ‘ It 's like pissing into the wind ! ’ |
| 3 | He goes on a bit but he 's basically very good-hearted and kind . |
| 4 | He goes into a restaurant and he says oh the waiter erm let me see the menu and he looks at the menu and said right , he said . |
| 5 | He sits behind a desk and you stand a few feet away with a screw facing you really close on either side . |
| 6 | ‘ He lives in a field as he is allergic to everything like straw and paper in the stables , ’ explained owner-trainer John Upson . |
| 7 | On the tragedy and the hilarity of being in an uncomfortable place : Yasser Arafat jokes that he lives in an aeroplane because being made homeless , he might as well live in the air . |
| 8 | But such an explanation is surely ridiculous to the modern reader forced to realize how far he stands from an age when mythological explanations were permissible . |
| 9 | He finishes after a bit and then jumps up on the window ledge . |
| 10 | bases on which he arrives at a decision that he may sometimes find considerable difficulty in making a good case on paper for some action he may have taken , even though he feels , and subsequent events may prove , that action to have been perfectly correct . |
| 11 | He reaches for a booklet and starts to flip through it . |
| 12 | By ss20 and 21 of the Solicitors Act , a person who is not duly qualified to practise commits an offence if he acts as a solicitor or pretends to act as such . |
| 13 | A man sitting in a group , leaning against the wall of the shrine , starts shaking and stands up , throwing aside the woollen blanket he wears as a shawl and kicking off his shoes . |
| 14 | if it is considered that the information content is of paramount importance then it is valid to so construct a resource centre that every student may spend most of his time wired up to a dial-access system so that all he need do is dial a number , press a button and then sit passively absorbing what he sees on a screen and hears in his headphones … |
| 15 | This object may be something which he sees from a distance and so gives the rider due warning that he will probably shy . |
| 16 | He commits to a budget and achieves it . |
| 17 | It fills him with strange satisfaction to think that while the great illumination of the Market Square is quite invisible from this point , the little lamps of Iron Green can be seen glowing through a gap beyond Albert Road , It is many years now since he has visited the lower end of Odborough , for his legs will not carry him up and down the hill , and he growls like a dog if anyone suggests a car . |
| 18 | If he lands on a tree or on the ground he sticks in like a dart , and even if he survives the impact he wo n't be able to free himself easily . |
| 19 | He may be right — he seems like a zombie when he 's on them , but then about a month after he stops having the regular injections he gets happier for a while , then gradually all the funny ideas begin again . |
| 20 | In Book I , Chapter 3 , Section 3 of his A System of Logic ( written before he had decided that a quality is simply a sensation regarded in a certain relation ) he distinguishes between a sensation and a quality , a distinction which , he feels , may be missed because we can seldom refer to the sensation otherwise than by a circumlocution , for example , by reference to the quality , as when we call a sensation ‘ the sensation of white ’ . |
| 21 | He peers into a bar and instantly this reticulated gaze comes into play , falling over the assembled suits , so that each one is caught by their vent-gills in the appropriately sized mesh square , struggling to free themselves before the marketeers close in , wielding stunning Free Offers . |
| 22 | The problem is that the child throws toys every time he asks for a biscuit and is refused . |
| 23 | he , he ca n't stand and dither , he moves around a lot and does n't think if only he could stand and dither and think |
| 24 | ‘ But he operates in a world that I do n't want any part of . |
| 25 | Mr Kingdon , who has lived in Africa all his life when not teaching zoology and art at Oxford , can exemplify any point he makes with an anecdote and a case history : from beetles in Namibia to monkeys in Zaire , chameleons in Cameroon or giant groundsels on Mount Kenya . |
| 26 | He works as a packer and is training towards becoming a final examiner . |
| 27 | He comes from a family that does not do things by halves . |
| 28 | He stops at a kiosk and buys all the better-class local papers he can find , together with an airmail edition of the Times , a street map , and a green Michelin guide to the city . |
| 29 | A mechanic when he hits on an idea that makes him some money in a suggestion scheme though the joy is of the same substance but he will not feel the same depth of emotion as Einstein or Dante did . |