Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He skips over for the bloody |
| 2 | Suddenly he drifts off into a momentary reverie , gradually descending back to earth . |
| 3 | He has received a card with drawings of gangsters on it and threats of a ‘ warm welcome ’ if he turns up for the second-round tie . |
| 4 | The major question thus always remains unanswered in the Critique : every time that Sartre announces that he is about to proceed with the fundamental problem of how History can be a totalization without a totalizer , he turns back to a previous , more easily intelligible stage on the way . |
| 5 | He points out in the British Journal of Educational Psychology that the results of these schemes have been disappointing and it is doubtful whether they have any permanent effect on intelligence . |
| 6 | THIS is intense ! ’ mutters Emilio Estevez , as he flies about in a glowing car . |
| 7 | I 've been reading Richard Hoggart 's The Uses of Literacy on this journey ; he goes on about the working class not being able to think " abstractly , generally , metaphysically or politically . |
| 8 | Beckett remarks in Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in progress , that Joyce 's work is ‘ not about something : it is that something itself ( Beckett 1929 and 1972 : 14 ) , and he goes on in the central part of his oeuvre , the trilogy Molloy , Malone Dies , The Unnamable ( 1950 — 2 ) , to create a kind of autonomy of his own — — as the Unnamable remarks , ‘ it all boils down to a question of words … all words , there 's nothing else ’ ( 1959 and 1979 : 308 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ The relief ! ’ cries Howard , as he goes about in an old pair of jeans , mending the roof and painting the window-frames . |
| 10 | If your candidate is going to research the level of pollution in a local river , he does n't stand on the bridge and look ; he either wades in to feel for junk or he goes in with a professional diver to find it . |
| 11 | A horse will soon become used to the excitement of a show provided that he goes out on a regular basis from an early age . |
| 12 | But he lines up for the Welsh All-Blacks today , hoping to take another step towards erasing the memory . |
| 13 | Tom does n't speak much to anyone but to the caddie when he 's in contention and he marches off at a cracking pace . |
| 14 | He looks back on a stimulating and happy relationship with his fellow Board members . |
| 15 | But more affecting still is the first half of the record , in which he looks back with a wry , but far from dry , eye on his own childhood . |
| 16 | He glances down at the final layer of glasses . |
| 17 | With true teen anger he latches on to the witty cynicism of the two Lenny 's , Cohen and Bruce , but fires them up with youthful vitriol . |
| 18 | Nonetheless he stands out as a prophetic beacon , a fresh and radical thinker whose radicalism did not lie in attempting a consciously ‘ modern reinterpretation ’ of Christian faith , but in struggling afresh with the heart of the matter , and charting out a very different course from those being recommended on all sides around him . |
| 19 | Even Ivan Illich , though their opening sentence contains an echo of his ‘ the medical establishment has become a major threat to health ’ , is ignored in the text : he scrapes in with a mere single source reference . |
| 20 | One man who could have a busy day on Sunday if he drops in on the above conference will be Michael Billington , the theatre critic of The Guardian . |
| 21 | He starts out with a full clip of ammo , but watch out ( Beadle 's about ) , it 's limited — make sure you hit 'im first time . |
| 22 | Finally about quarter to eight he shoots through to the other room and finds Dick and Joy Hardy there , they were supposed to be picking Gwen up and bringing her round . |
| 23 | If he hits one then he bounds about inside the unit , bouncing from foe to foe , until he spins out of the other side , leaving the enemy completely devastated . |
| 24 | He passes by on the other side of the road and once he 's well past I pop up to watch him through the rear window . |
| 25 | He hands over to a young man with a toothless grin under a Coca-Cola hat who has been elected locally as the group 's ‘ popular educator ’ . |
| 26 | 7 He ends up in a weak position , open to many follow-up techniques . |
| 27 | This is what it means to say that Dostoevsky brushes against Raskolnikov and Svidrigailov as he reaches back towards the underground man . |
| 28 | But Kevin still has his Dad 's bag — and credit card — and he checks in at the ritzy Plaza Hotel before embarking on an hilarious , hair-raising adventure when he runs into the same villains — Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern — who he fought off when he was Home Alone . |
| 29 | When he gets on to the old antibiotics he |
| 30 | ‘ He will be satisfied if he gets back on the Irish team , but it is not possibility he could push himself right to the forefront . ’ |