Example sentences of "he [vb -s] the [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thing is , he was christened that way , and he hates the whole moviestar bit . |
| 2 | A further great grievance that exists in this force in the Division where I am is that the Section Sergeant dare not enter any Station while he is on duty unless he signs the main station book ; yet the plain clothes P.C.s and Detective Constables , and even uniform P.C.s can go into the Station as often as they think and there is no order that any of them must sign in and out . |
| 3 | But he discounts the German raid theory and thinks there was a British chemical warfare experiment which went wrong . |
| 4 | It is only the man who enters civil society ( the ‘ public ’ sphere ) and , in that world , he represents the other family members . |
| 5 | This is erm Nick and I said that erm it 's rather confusing here because on the one hand he represents the American dream boy because he 's young , he 's beautiful , he 's got his future ahead of him . |
| 6 | Rachel 's former fiance revealed that he thinks the health-conscious Vogue model was duped into taking the drug at the bash at Wavertree Recreation Club in Liverpool . |
| 7 | It was impossible for Maradona to play in Rome because of the Pounds 2.5m he owes the Italian tax authorities following his turbulent spell at Napoli , where two inspired Championships were overshadowed by sordid drug and racketeering allegations . |
| 8 | He has the appropriate postgraduate qualification , and his future career should n't present any difficulties . |
| 9 | have you had the last cherry bakewell ? , he has the last cherry bakewell |
| 10 | He has the fast talking sales pitch and easy familiarity common to people of his profession , coupled with a calmer side , fond of quoting wise sayings from his native India and disdainful of marketing favourites like ‘ adding value ’ with fancy packaging or ‘ creating new markets . ’ |
| 11 | He has the fast talking sales pitch , but is also fond of quoting wise Indian sayings |
| 12 | The present Prime Minister , if he has not already started his career of collecting Royal Worcester porcelain , will be very welcome if he visits the Royal Porcelain Worcester works . |
| 13 | Abse 's book is full of long digressions — on gambling , Ulster , pornography , spies ( among whom he counts the acquitted MP Will Owen ) , Welsh devolution , Woodrow Wyatt , Enoch Powell and Keith Joseph , Welsh devolution , the ‘ wondrous possibilities ’ of in vitro fertilisation , the horrors of a Conservative Chief Rabbinate , the security services . |
| 14 | He adds the other band members Lorayne Robinson and Ruby Washington will carry on with the group for the sake of their friends who died . |
| 15 | But he starts the Premier League campaign in better shape than three of his star internationals — Rob Jones , Jan Molby and John Barnes — who are all out crocked . |
| 16 | He says the current road-building programme is the biggest in this country since Roman times . |
| 17 | He says the long term interests of his company are best served in private sector , even if this causes short term problems . |
| 18 | Although he acknowledges that the moisture content is high , he says the extra drying costs are offset by catching the crop before it sheds any ears . |
| 19 | He says the new-style Health Service is n't serving some patients well . |
| 20 | A single Goblin can continue to use the huge prodder to keep back the Squigs and fight , but he loses the +1 strength bonus as the prodder is exceptionally unwieldy . |
| 21 | Luke is most anxious to make this clear and he uses the Greek word parthenos twice in the opening sentence . |
| 22 | His reading of the First Symphony is second to none and he includes the first movement exposition repeat . |
| 23 | As he reaches the first solo stage , therefore , the pupil must either achieve a standard of flying which does not leave room for criticism , or he must learn to accept the particular instructor 's comments as fair and helpful . |
| 24 | Huntington 's argument goes a long way to making clear the disappointment a reader experiences if he approaches the Wellsian SF novels in chronological order . |
| 25 | And he mistrusts the public attention mountaineering offers , preferring to stay out of the limelight . |
| 26 | His eyes resemble dish-telescopes that seem to look right through his friends , and he sees the psychic energy people emit as an astrophysicist 's radio-telescope ‘ sees ’ sounds bounced off distant galaxies . |
| 27 | He sees the new blood scheme as one way to redress the balance against over-represented subjects like particle physics . |
| 28 | From the Italian viewpoint at least , he sees the Single Market changes making little difference to how things work . |
| 29 | He takes the great folio Bible , |
| 30 | Melossi ( 1985 ) discusses how social discourses change with the various stages of what he calls the political business cycle . |