Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ He plays more on the left hand side which is not my favourite position , I prefer to play on the right . |
| 2 | We are delighted to welcome Mark and his team to Rentokil , and he looks forward to the many leads which will no doubt be forthcoming . |
| 3 | By way of contrast , he writes disparagingly of the multinational company that concentrates on idiosyncratic consumer preferences , and gives two reasons why he believes such organisations will lose the long-term commercial battle . |
| 4 | He writes brilliantly of the great circumnavigation of Magellan , of his own voyages around the Horn , through the Panama Canal or up the peak in Darien where Balboa ( not Keats 's stout Cortez ) first spied the Pacific . |
| 5 | Hynes catches adroitly the flavour of poetry and politics in a period when even poetry found it impossible to be politically neutral , and he writes perceptively of the underlying links between such disparate writers as , for example , Isherwood and Greene . |
| 6 | Although the Labour Party as a whole has not taken a stand on the political position of the monarchy , Tony Benn has expressed the view that these two powers of the Crown should be transferred to the Speaker of the House of Commons because he stands apart from the political parties and is directly answerable to the Commons for the conduct of the chair in a way that does not apply to the position of the Crown . |
| 7 | He stands there amongst the dusty old vases , interiors barnacled with crusty water stains , exteriors greasy with fly shit . |
| 8 | He cares neither for the broad sweep of grand strategy nor for the narrow focus of specific campaigns , so he ignores both government archives and the memoirs of the great and the good . |
| 9 | He swerves deep into the hard shoulder . |
| 10 | he hangs apart from the two strong women , |
| 11 | He stays somewhere in the middle portion of the gunsight , but the pipper refuses to stay on him . |
| 12 | He travels extensively over the Old World , opening relations with the Empire , Bretonnia and even the Dwarfs . |
| 13 | He smiles slightly at the vague feeling of hope he now feels . |
| 14 | A morning comes , though , after 21 days as a Trappist , on which , with a noisy family trailing him , he screams again in the leafy sanctuary of the treetops . |
| 15 | Then he glides across to the other side of the room and bends down . |
| 16 | When he appears again in The Stormy Petrel , part of his duty is to encourage the prospective King Carol , a timid boy under Count Jasper 's Regency — a boy who , as Dick complains , knows ‘ a lot out of books ’ but nothing about ‘ real things ’ , which he defines as : |
| 17 | 's bank in Catford was just one of 's targets , we do not know exactly how he managed to penetrate their security , but he was undoubtedly helped by the fact that his main business is debt collecting , and he numbers most of the big banks among his clients . |
| 18 | THE Prime Minister 's brother revealed what he enjoys most on the sunny South Coast . |
| 19 | But as ‘ Sir John ’ he is a shrewd man of the world , manipulating the foolishness and greed of those around him as he moves confidently through the social round . |
| 20 | Or is I come to you just a projection from the voice of the Enemy , saying to Frodo what he wants to hear , putting words in the mouth but not in the heart , creating ugly fictions as he does later with the phantasmal corpses of the Dead Marshes ? |
| 21 | Alex Lightbody , the reigning Irish champion , will also do his cause a power of good if he does well at the British Isles Championship in Worthing . |
| 22 | While I think he is right to criticise those who propounded a social gospel earlier in the century he does so for the wrong reason . |
| 23 | Yet the practising Christian remains as ignorant as his predecessors of centuries ago ; and he subscribes essentially to the same simplistic accounts he heard when he himself was a child . |
| 24 | Located in the Cabinet Office , he reports directly to the Prime Minister . |
| 25 | ‘ Two hearts ’ , he bids confidently across the green baize of the card table . |
| 26 | These days , if you imagine a young man 's sexual exploration , he works from the outside in and encounters women 's underwear long before he comes anywhere near the female body itself . |
| 27 | And one day it 's an ordinary day — he comes home in the usual way and says , ‘ I 'm dying ; I 'll be dead in a year or so . ’ |