Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [adv] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He points out the surprising truth that an accurate random sample of 1,000 people will work whether it is taken from a population of 5,000 , five million or 50 million . |
| 2 | He does n't like going to school for a start , but he goes else the old man beats him up . |
| 3 | I 'm gon na have a wee Bill 's bloody worse , he stands there , he looks out the bloody window as much as any bugger . |
| 4 | She was afraid then , rather as a skier might feel when he looks down the steep whiteness of a dangerous slope , or a high diver who seems far above the water , but the sensation was so unusual to her that she could n't be sure that it was entirely unpleasant still strongly mixed , as it was , with curiosity . |
| 5 | Tonight he holds back the ill-concealed shudders and caresses the swelling head , he bends and kisses the skin exposed . |
| 6 | Whatever the reason he has neither the spiritual character nor the material resources to redeem Ruth . |
| 7 | Spencer propounded the law of equal freedom which was not unlike the first of Rawls 's principles of justice : ‘ Every man is free to do that which he wills provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man . ’ |
| 8 | So I shouted to Paul to come and have a look at it and he says well the cheeky bugger . |
| 9 | He describes how the Digital Equipment Corporation at Ayr have pursued quality and flexibility by introducing high performance , self-managing work teams . |
| 10 | He describes how the basic system has been tested and extended throughout the Authority , location by location and application by application . |
| 11 | He digs up the bloody garden round the |
| 12 | Pearse identifies the same process as the Kulak path when he shows how the incorporative drive draws out what he calls the progressive element among the peasantry ( Pearse 1975 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Woods ' concepts of reality and illusion become blurred and he ends up the living incarnation of the television lie , developing a slit in his stomach that can accept video cassettes , guns , hands — anything . |
| 15 | He cuts out the middle men and women — the dreaded parents — and goes straight for the hearts and minds of kids . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | With all the subtlety of a pub singer he prises away the so-called glamour and reveals a hard world full of sadness , unfulfilled dreams and barren values . |
| 18 | So you see , Miss Abbott , though he might never , on account of his birth , want for money , he lacks sadly the human love that lucre can in no way replace . |
| 19 | Right at the beginning of his book Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art , in the first chapter called ‘ Renaissance : self-definition or self-deception ’ , he takes up the old idea that the Renaissance was the expression of a specific ‘ spirit ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Some nights , he calls up the late show DJ on the request line . |
| 22 | has to come up to the house to talk to him and erm like he sort of opens the door and just shuts it in his face cos he finds out the other bloke 's a prince and he 's just standing there in the rain . |
| 23 | He lays down the only terms on which it is possible for him to take up residence with his people . |
| 24 | He tells how the Holy Spirit fell on Cornelius , and points out that God had given Cornelius the same gift as the Jewish believers . |
| 25 | I said he 's my father and then he falls out the fucking bed when they put him in it because they admit negligence , they forgot to put the cot side up , dad has got lack of oxygen to his bra brain , he thought it was the Battle of Hastings going on but they said there was nobody there , well surely they must have known Joy he fell out the bloody bed because he 's laying like this and he 's falling and he 's falling and bang come out , he split all his bloody head open , do you know the blood was there from the night he fell out , he fell out at half past ten at night and they never informed us , which is against the law and the blood still sat there at quarter to four the following day , all over the floor , he 's got a bloody stitch in his head which they done to him while he were in the bed , and ripped three tubes out of his arm , split all his bloody arm open |
| 26 | On the platform he picks up the local rumours . |
| 27 | He enjoys still the odd distinction of being the first person to take a soil sample at what later became the NATO headquarters at Mönchen Gladbach . |
| 28 | He puts forward the radical solution that the range be given almost total protection as a wilderness area or area of land where the hand of man is less evident . |
| 29 | Thus he puts forward the very man as an example of an adjective which qualifies the sense alone . |
| 30 | It is to be hoped that the Secretary of State , when he sets up the national appraisal arrangements to which he is committed , will build on this goodwill . |