Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [adv] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He wo n't get far , so if he turns left at these lights we go right , ’ says Mark , but it 's only his sense of humour showing . |
| 2 | Phil Allman , Service Manager at Pest Control London North , never sees his name in print although he contributes regularly to this publication . |
| 3 | Oldfield off he goes again on another march forward Thomson no free kick given Pearce in possession he clashes with Agnew and Oldfield brings the ball down . |
| 4 | At these moments he looks closely at each inch of her face , like a valuer frowningly examining some precious object . |
| 5 | In his diaries he looks forward to future success , but it was his artistic success that he sought before financial security . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , Strachan views the water vole as an indicator of wetland habitat quality , and he looks forward with little optimism . |
| 7 | But within this group he looks specifically at solid tumours and they only have a four year survival of twenty percent . |
| 8 | He lives here on that hill behind the village . |
| 9 | ‘ Anyhow , he lives somewhere in darkest Essex , so lord knows what time I 'd get to my bed — even supposing he can remember where he lives . |
| 10 | Redhead , however , is also a great country-lover and he writes eloquently on this theme for the magazine Country Living . |
| 11 | With his loyal advisers Francis Cripps and Frances Morrell by his side , he beavers away with unremitting zeal even when his beloved industrial policy is snatched away and he is banished to the Department of Energy . |
| 12 | He corresponds frequently in rhyming couplets . |
| 13 | Dennis Pinnegar of Thornaby-based Panda Supplies will explain how he uses both for in-house training . |
| 14 | However he acts best on soft ground and he is unlikely to find that at Liverpool . |
| 15 | Chatam remains reasonably treated on a 12lb higher mark than last year , he acts well on soft ground , is ideally suited by Newbury 's left-handed track , and the weight of ante-post money suggests he will be spot on for his reappearance . |
| 16 | Idealising his tall , slender ladies , he dwells lovingly on tiny feet from which their champions remove dainty shoes . |
| 17 | He responds well to careful handling . |
| 18 | And he gets away with bloody murder ! |
| 19 | It follows from this that any anthropologist who selects a particular category word from his own mother tongue , e.g. incest , marriage , family , myth , religion , and then embarks on some kind of cross-cultural study of institutions which he lumps together under such headings , is begging all the questions which are of serious interest ! |
| 20 | For he distinguishes sharply between two questions . |
| 21 | In most contexts , however , the natural ‘ effort after meaning ’ will impel the hearer / reader to try to co-interpret chunks of language which he finds close to each other on a page , or a stone or a wall and , where possible , to interpret the language as relevant to the physical context . |
| 22 | He labours scornfully for this Simon Giles , faintly comforted by a corner in Classical studies which has been granted him for reasons to do with the firm 's image . |
| 23 | His face peels into sympathetic relief and he nods repeatedly in embarrassed agreement . |
| 24 | When writing of R. F. Horton , A. G. Gardiner remembered that ‘ he leans forward with outstretched hands … |
| 25 | Once he has learned to take steps , he can practise these at home , perhaps using the kitchen fitted surfaces for support as he moves sideways in each direction . |
| 26 | He disappears briefly into revolving doors and uniformed doormen , then reappears among discreet silk ties , or cashmere sweaters and hand-made brogues . |
| 27 | There are a whole range of things he ca n't do , he ca n't direct congress , he ca n't appoint who he wants freely , he ca n't make treaties with whom he wants when he wants , he ca n't start wars if he wants to start wars all these controls are on the president but what I , what er Newstat is saying is , over and above that , even in the areas where he appears to have constitutional authority , as a matter of practice it 's very difficult for the president to exercise his authority and when the president does exercise his authority he does so at great cost to himself . |
| 28 | There have been months when he has n't found any work at all and so he returns home for short periods . |
| 29 | He reacts strongly to any suggestion — and there have been several over recent months — that his emotional ups and downs are part of a manic-depressive syndrome . |
| 30 | Everybody agrees now that the figures before us are not correct as everybody produces a different set er , it 's alright for Mr to sit there and Mr like Heckyl and Jeckyl saying no we do n't , no we do n't , but he comes forward with different figures , worst figures |