Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [adv] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's extremely cheerful , if somewhat misguided , as he points out the many features of the room , and mentions that the public rooms in the Cottage will be opened at seven o'clock . |
| 2 | Tonight he holds back the ill-concealed shudders and caresses the swelling head , he bends and kisses the skin exposed . |
| 3 | He shows how the same events can be given at least three explanations , each related to different facts , or to the same facts differently interpreted . |
| 4 | Schafer ( 1981 ) offers a useful historical survey in which he shows how the founding fathers of modern linguistics , de Saussure and Bloomfield , reacting against the total neglect of speech in the pre-existing traditions of rhetoric and grammar , asserted the primacy of speech . |
| 5 | He cuts out the middle men and women — the dreaded parents — and goes straight for the hearts and minds of kids . |
| 6 | He recollects vividly the outstanding singles performances of Bill Thompson and Diane Underwood and with the final match standing at 2-all his team went on to dominate the doubles and lift the trophy . |
| 7 | When the character of Harlequin , the Comic Lover , had become familiar in England he was quickly promoted to lead the pantomimes ; nowhere in ballet does he rise to more commanding heights than as Captain Belaye in Cranko , s Pineapple Poll , where he takes on the superior airs and manners of the British Navy and becomes the apple of every girl 's eye . |
| 8 | He draws out the richest tones that he is capable of here . |
| 9 | He lays down the only terms on which it is possible for him to take up residence with his people . |
| 10 | On the platform he picks up the local rumours . |
| 11 | He explains how the mathematical tools of congruence , transformation , invariance and groups are used to define symmetry and to classify its variety . |
| 12 | ‘ With authority he commands even the unclean spirits and they obey him ’ ( 1:27 ) . |
| 13 | ( a not unusual event ) he leaps up the six flights of stairs and arrives at the top as cool as a cucumber , followed by a very out-of-breath Orderly Officer . |