Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Man Utd fan dies and goes to heaven but before he goes through the pearly gates he has to pass a test . |
| 2 | … he goes by the carved shafts at cross-roads , pours oil on them from his flask , falls on his knees , makes an obeisance , and only then moves on . |
| 3 | He belongs to the General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) , which has quarrelled with the Socialist Party . |
| 4 | MB 's is wearing clothes that do not fit in the first example eg. This time he refers to the good opinions that people have of him as new clothes and killing the king would be like throwing away hardly worn clothes . |
| 5 | He refers to the lithographed drawings as ‘ engravings ’ , and he used many short lines like an engraver scratching on copper ; pioneers are often conservative , and it was left to Edward Lear in his superb volume on parrots ( 1832 ) to exploit lithography , using bold flowing lines with his crayon on the stone . |
| 6 | Erm now he talks about the vanguards of revolutions i it 's just his distinction between the types of of peasant erm he looks at the rich peasants first of all and originally they 're , they 're not into revolution at all , you know , they do n't want to join peasant associations because they 've got nothing to gain erm as er er had said before , you know , p if you ask a rich peasant to join he 's gon na say well , you know , I 've never heard of such a thing before , you know , I 've , I can manage to live alright , I advise you to gi er give it up or alternatively he may just say , you know , good God no , you know , it 's too dangerous I , I do n't want to be knocked off by my landlord . |
| 7 | The author is on stronger ground when he looks at the technical characteristics of various modes . |
| 8 | Brian Robinson , I believe , has every right to feel aggrieved when he looks at the other members of the back row . |
| 9 | In the first of his ‘ State of Grace ’ reports he looks at the current crises in the Kirk . |
| 10 | They 're simply irresistible , says Graham Rice , as he looks at the best types to grow |
| 11 | How right you are Mr Deputy Speaker , of course I could n't go into this because it 's out of order but on the other hand I would simply say to the honourable gentleman if he looks at the basic policies , the basic flaw of the E C is it ca n't solve problems and all these new M E Ps we 're thinking of sending over I think we should bear in mind the problem , they 're going over to something where problems ca n't be solved . |
| 12 | To ask the Minister for the Arts what plans he has for the European arts festival ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 13 | To ask the Minister for the Arts , what plans he has for the European arts festival ; — |
| 14 | In the case of natural language , natives ' pre-formal agreement on the boundaries of grammatical division is the most important kind of evidence the linguist can glean as he searches for the grammatical recipes and ingredients of sentence meaning . |
| 15 | He starts with the pioneering days at Brooklands and has taken care not to omit the Donington grands prix in 1937-38 where Germany 's Auto Unions and Mercedes were so dominant . |
| 16 | As he reaches between the worn rails towards |
| 17 | I find Lubin 's fingerwork in faster movements absolutely sparkling ; and the slightly more flowing tempi he adopts in the slower movements are more to my taste . |
| 18 | He tends to me as one would a convalescent child delirious with a terminal but ticklish illness ; he tends to the outermost hazards of my body ( he is so violent and so tender ) and back to a cave of foetal musk , molested by warmth . |
| 19 | He concentrates on the negative aspects — reasonably enough , in present circumstances . |
| 20 | Then , it states that every citizen of the union erm residing in a member state shall have the right to vote and to stand as a candidate at municipal elections in the member state in which he resides under the same conditions as nationals of that state and that the right shall , not may , but shall be exercised er before the thirty first of December nineteen ninety four by the council acting unanimously on the proposal from the commission and after consulting the European parliament which arrangements may provide the derogations where warranted by problems specific to a member state . |
| 21 | These feelings tend to be transitory but some patients remain psychologically disturbed for many years and , in a few psychological difficulties develop in the convalescent period which were not apparent during the acute episode.While these problems can sometimes be anticipated in hospital on the basis of the patient 's reaction to his illness , and any premorbid difficulties which he has encountered in the past , a better idea of his potential can be gained by following him during the convalescent period to observe how he copes with the various stresses and strains which he encounters during this time . |
| 22 | Well when he gets in the right places he 's only been doing schools and you know ? |
| 23 | In Leicestershire , the man who wishes to forget income-tax , hydrogen bombs and the relentless onward march of science walks the field-paths , to which special maps and guides are provided ; in Devon he takes to the deep lanes between the farms . |
| 24 | Gratefully , I enlist his help ; he confers with the various spokesmen with charm , patience and a magic defusing device called being The Boss . |
| 25 | He pulls on the uniform trousers . |
| 26 | A man qualified enough then , to select , out of a choice of just 12 and a half million , what he regards as the best pictures in the collection . |
| 27 | Thus the Englishman , familiar with his Rhaetian sediments at the top of the Trias , can not but be astounded when he reads of the Rhaetian deposits of Thailand and finds them described as black pyritous shales with Rhaetavicula contorta , resting on red marls and sandstones , with evaporites , just like those of the Severn cliffs . |
| 28 | However , an investment manager ( such as an IMRO member ) who uses a firm as a broker will not be a market counterparty under this head , and will thus be a customer unless he falls in the listed categories test category of market counterparty ; in particular , this means that the best execution rules will apply . |
| 29 | For the diminutive Andy — people often wonder how he hauls around the pro bags that stand as high as him — the triumphs he has shared with Nick Faldo are something of a fulfilment of his own ambition of winning the titles himself : he started as a tournament professional with dreams of a major championship before realizing he would not make the grade as a pro , and so took up the bag instead of the club . |
| 30 | An individual scientist 's decision will depend on the priority he gives to the various factors . |