Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the Daily Telegraph 's reviewer thought the twenty-year-old too young for the role of Buddy , he conceded that ‘ he plays it with an infectious sense of fun . |
| 2 | Brahe ‘ shows ’ Epstein his work — that is , he flies him around the 30-kilometer circumference of the accelerator which is buried deep underground , pinpointing the surface features and describing their relation to the features concealed below the surface . |
| 3 | With feet of lead he pitches us into the high winds with the wisdom of a professional . |
| 4 | He maketh me to lie down in green pastures : he leadeth me beside the still waters . |
| 5 | Only one of them looks directly out of the picture , and he holds us with a gloomy , ironical eye — an unflattered eye , as well , we ca n't help noticing . |
| 6 | He holds it through a riveting performance of the Toccata , a sumptuously lyrical adagio ( although perhaps here it has more the air of an andante amabile ) and a gloriously ebullient Fugue . |
| 7 | ‘ Shut the window , please ’ is said in a situation where the speaker rather expects the hearer to act so as to fulfil a certain sort of wish of his , if he indicates that he has it by an imperative sentence . |
| 8 | He is carrying the map the class have made , which his " friend " has delivered ; he thanks them for the excellent job they have done . |
| 9 | Simpson still delays taking the kick , now it comes in , he knocks it into the far post , looking for Paul . |
| 10 | He wants me in a purple gown to match the set and shows me drawings of the dancers ' outfits . |
| 11 | He can teach us because He knows us through and through — our strengths , our weaknesses , inclinations and dispositions — and He loves us with an all-penetrating love . |
| 12 | Patrick has plenty to say on such subjects , and he says it in the lordly way which does much to furnish the book with its presiding idiom . |
| 13 | He describes it as a steep overhanging wall , with two hard 12 feet sections . |
| 14 | Such a word may be useful to a literary man but it throws little light on Green 's intentions except when he uses it in a negative sense ; in one chapter he states a subject was ‘ unpicturesque and consequently not worth an artists attention ’ . |
| 15 | He fills it with a restless , bristling energy , as if he might clamber out of the frame and into real life . |
| 16 | The Floridante Overture nearly throws him off as he takes the corners with no evidence of concern for his own safety , but the overall effect is thrilling as he leads us on an absorbing and unexpected journey with an orchestra and cast consisting , in the main , of unknown and unpronounceable Hungarians . |
| 17 | Part of the time he sees them in the familiar way as creatures who lack rationality to at least some degree . |
| 18 | And although Platinum has , like the spreadsheet solution that preceded it , some limitations , he sees it as a good basis for future developments . |
| 19 | Frankie calls it as he sees it about the moral and social decay of contemporary Britain without ever sounding like someone whose grasp of the issues extends no further than memorizing a snappy slogan . |
| 20 | But the reader gains as well , because he sees it from a different angle . |
| 21 | But the reader gains as well because he sees it from a different angle . |
| 22 | And he takes me to an Italian restaurant in Mitcham . |
| 23 | Everything you say , he takes it in the wrong way . |
| 24 | But first he takes us on a brisk trot through lesser ranges , principally the Alps , from Balmat on Mont Blanc to the many feats of Mummery and beyond . |
| 25 | He may use tools of analysis developed within a wider European tradition , but he applies them to a special problem : the uniqueness of our nation 's formation ; the condition of England . |
| 26 | Again , the way he applies it to the specific case of popular music poses problems : the utopian promise which , for Adorno , is the mark of great art 's autonomy is in his view relevant to popular music solely by its absence , for here , he thinks , social control of music 's meaning and function has become absolute , musical form a reified reflection of manipulative social structures ; and this moment in the historical process actually represents , in effect , the end of history — the possibility of movement by way of contradiction and critique has disappeared . |
| 27 | He applies it to the particular case of young people living with their parents after marriage , by arguing that in the expanding industrial towns there was every opportunity for young people to be wage earners and therefore to be net contributors to the parental household , at a time when wages were at a very low level . |
| 28 | steps up and right footed he blasts it into the bottom corner , it subdues the Shrewsbury crowd somewhat , Blackburn fans are rampant because at last there 's some light for them but they 're still trailing Shrewsbury by three goals to two . |
| 29 | He remembers him as a melancholy figure . |
| 30 | He regards them as a necessary but tiresome ingredient in the successful running of the Empire . |