Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a somewhat artificial rule , a servant who receives a thing from his master for the master 's use is deemed not to be in possession of it , though the contrary is true where he receives it from a stranger for the master 's use . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The accused agrees to transfer shares to the victim but before doing so he transfers them to a third party . |
| 5 | He wants me in a purple gown to match the set and shows me drawings of the dancers ' outfits . |
| 6 | He describes it as a steep overhanging wall , with two hard 12 feet sections . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | He fills it with a restless , bristling energy , as if he might clamber out of the frame and into real life . |
| 9 | And although Platinum has , like the spreadsheet solution that preceded it , some limitations , he sees it as a good basis for future developments . |
| 10 | But the reader gains as well , because he sees it from a different angle . |
| 11 | But the reader gains as well because he sees it from a different angle . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He remembers him as a melancholy figure . |
| 15 | He regards them as a necessary but tiresome ingredient in the successful running of the Empire . |
| 16 | He tells me of a great battle his ancestors fought near Lake Victoria . |
| 17 | He welcomes me with a weak grin and a feeble cough . |
| 18 | ‘ Huh , with those blue eyes , the tan and the toothpaste smile , he reminds me of a game-show host . ’ |
| 19 | As for the English speaking , a child of far more than three has no difficulty learning Italian and is so far from being wedded to the tongue he has begun with that he forgets it within a few months so do not say to me that is an obstacle . |
| 20 | Teaming up with the Unanimous Decision Crew he talks us through a languid groove based story of how ‘ hard it is for a black man to get a job ’ , ‘ If you 're black , what 's your destination ? ’ he enquires . |
| 21 | ‘ He proves it in a hundred other ways . |
| 22 | And he likes it in a certain place and nobody must touch it . |
| 23 | He sticks me with a pink slip and walks back to his car . |
| 24 | Johnson 's account acknowledges the woman 's pastoral existence , and he dignifies her with a detailed report , pointing out that her circumstances were by no means on the lowest and most impoverished social scale . |
| 25 | But it seems that , I mean , redressing a paper that you know what it says is one thing erm so something like Hillman 's Guardian , he knows what words they are going to use in those headlines and he provides them with a new look for saying those words in , but in many ways his redesign of that paper was erm it was an undynamic one in the sense that he was still providing them with elements which they could bolt together to make a page in a classic broadsheet newspaper way . |