Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ALAN LEONARD aims to add another string to his bow when he plays in the Irish National Pairs championship finals in Blackrock , County Dublin next weekend . |
| 2 | Perhaps I could be Eric 's stunt man , standing in when he turns on the flash dangerous stuff that terrifies the defenders in his wake and makes them have a go like David Burrows did . |
| 3 | He points to a single red blossom that quivers on a nearly invisible thread attached to a garland of synthetic butterflies and rhinestone-dotted flowers — a bizarre piece of headgear so tacky it could only have been custom-made . |
| 4 | He points at a young blond amateur heavyweight who looks like a fraternity kid . |
| 5 | ‘ A confidential clerk ’ in Macassar , Willems finds his marriage going wrong and himself , obsessed with an Arab woman with whom he flies to a remote tropical island , becoming a savage . |
| 6 | Team captain Linford Christie will lead from the front as he goes for an unprecedented fourth successive 100m crown , while Colin Jackson ( 110m hurdles ) and Eamonn Martin ( 10,000m ) are also selected as defending champions . |
| 7 | He belongs to the New English Art Club . |
| 8 | We must remember Aldeborough when we read this rather odd poet , for he belongs to the grim little place , and through it to England . |
| 9 | He agrees with an unnamed British soldier that there were two wars being fought — against the designated enemy and against the army . |
| 10 | You may be able to work out that He refers to an animate masculine entity , the subject of both clauses . |
| 11 | The summons he receives from a free-floating blonde — ‘ Leave ‘ em , Billy , they 're not worth it . |
| 12 | To be sure , the characteristics of the transcendent self remain in play : to become what others saw him as being required great self-discipline ‘ similar to spiritual exercises ’ ; eventually he aspires to a classical stoic independence of spirit , a kind of sainthood ( p. 146 ) . |
| 13 | Eccleshall appears to be on stronger ground when he looks to the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries for evidence of libertarian Conservatism . |
| 14 | ‘ Sometimes he looks like a poor little child outside a cake shop . ’ |
| 15 | He looks like a bolshy milk-fed calf , frothy and fired-up on his mother 's milk . |
| 16 | He lives in a glorious wooden hut with several equally attractive out-buildings . |
| 17 | ‘ He lives in a big old house , a long way from anywhere . |
| 18 | ‘ He lives in a big lonely old house , and has no friends , because he 's so bad-tempered . |
| 19 | He lives in a three-story Victorian house in San Francisco , with his jazz-musician wife and daughter . |
| 20 | He lives in a lovely eighteenth-century house about a mile away . ’ |
| 21 | He lives in a large provincial town with his second partner Beth , their small son Henry , and Alice , his teenage daughter by a previous marriage . |
| 22 | Today he lives in the Eastern Thai town of Trat and , although officially retired , is still regarded as the overall leader of the Khmer Rouge . |
| 23 | Now to the house itself , one of the early observers gives us a clue when mentioning the house he writes of the fine Elizabethan chimneys still standing , these I believe are those which collapsed in 1973 after having previously been lowered owing to their dangerous condition , on the collapse of these some fine timber framing was discovered in the older parts of the house showing considerable blackening , and Mrs Lingham informed me that vestiges of a gallery were discovered , and it was suggested that this part of the building may have been of the hall type . |
| 24 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what plans he has for the Royal Naval Reserve ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 25 | Yes once again the Village Fete sees our Fanciful Pretender ready to join the procession as he has for the past 15 years . |
| 26 | he has for the aforesaid common good and defence of the realm ordained that as clerks ought not to defend themselves by force of arms , the third part of the present year 's temporalities of prelates and clerks and all persons of holy church , religious and other is to be seized . |
| 27 | Those musical orbits described by the fertile planets of Loose Tubes and the Jazz Warriors dominated the polls , with Andy Sheppard continuing to make his individual mark as he has in the past two years . |
| 28 | You play Indy , who takes on the Nazis as he searches for the precious power-giving material , Orichalcum . |
| 29 | He starts at a medieval Gothic window , a remnant of the first university in central Europe ( founded 1348 ) ; he pauses at the rebuilt Bethlehem Chapel , the site of where the Mass was first allowed in Czech , and Jan Hus preached before being burnt for heresy in 1413 ; he pays respects to the relics of the Jewish quarter with its ancient and crowded graveyard ; to cross the river he uses the Charles Bridge , lined with Baroque statues ( many between 1700 and 1720 ) , and climbs the hill to the Castle where art and architecture of all periods again further embellish the golden city of central Europe . |
| 30 | In The Favour , The Watch And The Very Big Fish Bob Hoskins plays a Paris photographer of religious themes who has to find a model for Christ on the cross and comes up with Jeff Goldblum , an ex-convict and former lover of an actress ( Natasha Richardson ) , who he meets at a pornographic dubbing studio . |