Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [pron] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already the young men in Harare have been coming to Arthur , knowing his record in Mount Darwin and sensing a kindred spirit ; and he offers them a better way than stone-throwing and kidnapping tactics . |
| 2 | He offers everyone a serious comparison of Keaton and Charlie Chaplin ( with Harold Lloyd and Fatty Arbuckle trivia thrown in for good measure ) , revealing that Keaton was , for him , the true genius on account of his invention and comic daring . |
| 3 | I rarely comment on Irish affairs , not because of lack of interest but because the Irish communities would reject any opinion or suggestion if they considered it a ’ Brit ’ suggestion or opinion , but , in this instance , the circumstances are so hideously distressing that I feel compelled to comment and to ask the Minister whether he thinks it a heavy irony that last Friday 's incident followed successive discoveries of large caches of arms and whether perhaps it was a desperate attempt by the IRA to reassert some degree of authority . |
| 4 | and you wonder why you 're losing all your matches cos every time the ball comes to him he ca n't trap it or if he does he kicks it the wrong way |
| 5 | He has everything a swashbuckling hero needs — except good looks . |
| 6 | he needs me a new home |
| 7 | He intimidates me the first time I ever talked to him was in the pub |
| 8 | He says its a private service . |
| 9 | He hands me a different picture . |
| 10 | He hands me a brown manila file , and a handwritten invoice which I imagine he is giving to me now while the connection between the reams of faxes and the many noughts , in local shillings , of his invoice is still fresh . |
| 11 | He hands me a white envelope . |
| 12 | He hands me a folded Guardian so we can work the indoor drop . |
| 13 | In his exchange with Nastasya he reveals himself an underground man who has wandered into a nineteenth-century naturalistic novel , a bohemian Hamlet . |
| 14 | ‘ But he sees me the other way — he spoke of another photograph — he was telling me that … ’ |
| 15 | so that when he sees you the next time , he 'll double check that . |
| 16 | And this way he gets him a good life . |
| 17 | He misses it the first time , but I 've written it exactly like he played it , because it does n't really sound too bad ! |
| 18 | " What if he asks me a direct question ? " |
| 19 | An expert can now make a final determination about the construction of documents provided he asks himself the right question . |
| 20 | No finer example of this can be seen than Castle Acre Priory , 1935 , in which the gaunt power of the medieval ruins is starkly silhouetted against the sky , and he permits himself a rare range of tonal contrast . |
| 21 | Wanting to keep her for himself , and not wishing to give away her identity to his colleagues , he gives her a male name : ‘ Bob ’ — to the delight of the audience , who then laugh each time he uses the name . |
| 22 | He gives her a warm smile . |
| 23 | To mark his disapproval of my doing so he gives me the wrong ticket and some change , of which the amount , as far as I can see , bears no relation to any previous transaction between us . |
| 24 | ‘ Defenders do n't like playing against him because he gives them a rough time but he knows what to expect from me . |
| 25 | Bacchus song loves Bacchus and Bacchus loves songs , says Milton , and he gives us a whole stream of classical precedents , Ovid , Anacreon , Pinder , the whole lot to show that a poet naturally will love the good life . |
| 26 | Now it is the most dangerous , ’ says Carl Howorth , co-ordinator for CARE , as he gives us a guided tour of the city . |
| 27 | In today 's programme he gives us an exclusive interview , the first since his heart attack four months ago . |
| 28 | Yet he gives us an authentic account of his epoch and of its medical habits . |
| 29 | He gives us the archetypal wolf in Armani threads in script executive Griffin Mill — Tim Robbins — whose job entails dashing the hopes of thousands of writers each year and making a handful rich . |
| 30 | Lear is evidently pleased with what Goneril has said , since he awards her a rich part of England , and moves on to the second movement , where again two daughters speak . |