Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [conj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He realised then that the winner of the shooting prize must still be on his feet . |
| 2 | There came a time when he doubled back after the others had gone on the trail taking their cyan hardness with them . |
| 3 | He points out that the courts have departed from the old literal approach of statutory construction and now adopt a purposive approach , seeking to discover the Parliamentary intention lying behind the words used and construing the legislation so as to give effect to , rather than thwart , the intentions of Parliament . |
| 4 | In a report published yesterday , he points out that the Government anticipated that the introduction of the council tax , which comes into operation on 1 April , would substantially reduce the costs of administering and collecting local taxation , possibly by as much as 60 per cent . |
| 5 | He points out that the ratio of housing debt to income is historically high , while Labour 's plans would hit the average mortgage holder in the South . |
| 6 | In an interview in the magazine Director to be published this week , Dr Runcie denies that there are ‘ tensions and suspicions ’ between Lambeth Palace and 10 Downing Street , but he points out that the Church of England is active in parts of the country where the Conservative Party has little support . |
| 7 | However , he points out that the effects of the testosterone rises appear to affect men more than women — in a study in the United States it was found that teenage boys felt sexier when their testosterone levels were high , whereas their female counterparts were more affected by peer group activity ( ie what their friends were doing ) . |
| 8 | First , he points out that the process of ostensive definition , whereby the solipsist attempts to give a meaning to the term ‘ pain ’ by pointing ( mentally ) to a sensation , is one which only works when we already have a background of conceptual knowledge , and can not be used to construct such knowledge from a blank sheet . |
| 9 | He points out that the reporting of the Brixton riot was marked by a discursive struggle between the ‘ law-and-order discourse ’ and a ‘ contra-discourse ’ , which sought to demystify ‘ the hitherto unproblematic position of the police ’ , by emphasising the possibility that police harassment and brutality lay at the root of the disorder . |
| 10 | He is also conscious of more international trends in higher education such as the encouragement of adult and continuing education — he points out that the city state of Berlin would be particularly well-suited to conduct experiments in the use of techniques such as cable television . |
| 11 | He points out that the pencils are notoriously difficult to get , and says the simple fact is that the judges have not seen sufficient innovation . |
| 12 | He points out that the droppings which the plant will be using would normally be used as manure for spreading on fields . |
| 13 | So he passed over and the trumpets sounded for him on the other side . ’ |
| 14 | But he goes on , he goes on and the body of his evidence my Lord is to speculate as to what he would have done and what Mr should have done in the circumstances of this er case and reference is made to the professional conduct guide in paragraph three two . |
| 15 | And of course he goes in and the horse drops in the far side of the wee barn , and er Old goes in with his dram and he dips it into the horse trough you ken , and he turns you ken with his regimental , |
| 16 | Certainly give them , yeah and I said Joan will tell you not only does her but the table that he sits on and the wall around it , |
| 17 | In July 1978 , he announced bluntly that the government would commit the unions to a pay-increase norm of just 5 per cent for the next twelve months . |
| 18 | He got in and the car pulled away . |
| 19 | The plane 's wing was damaged on impact and Mr Treweek saw the tail break off as he swam ashore but the pilot managed to land the plane safely on the beach . |
| 20 | v. McAlpine , where vibrations from pile-driving caused structural damage to a large hotel on adjoining land , Astbury J. held it to be a bad plea that the vibrations had this effect only because the hotel was so old as to be abnormally unstable ; but he found also that the evidence did not establish that it was in such a condition . |
| 21 | He found also that the incidence of relative clauses was a very clear indicator of development , Increasing four times from the youngest group of writers in his sample to the eldest . |
| 22 | The Beagle was on the point of leaving when he found out that the natives could tell which island a tortoise came from merely by looking at the shape of its shell . |
| 23 | But now things were bound to change , once he found out that the Englishman had n't been broken . |
| 24 | Young Victor , a Romantic from birth , was excited when the family was given free seats for the theatre for every night of its stay , less excited when he found out that the programme never changed , so that it meant sitting through the same melodrama every night for a month . |
| 25 | Imagine if he found out that the frock I claimed I 'd bought two years ago in a closing-down sale had , in fact , arrived in my wardrobe a little over two weeks ago , having been purchased from a smart department store ? |
| 26 | He ended up staying two years , partly because he found out that the sinecure in Stirling had , to use an aikido expression , dissipated . |
| 27 | When I inform him that I read recently how the estimable gentleman had found the Lord and was living in a Salvation Army hostel in Grimsby , he wonders aloud whether the vodka and orange was not partly to blame . |
| 28 | He moved even before the singing stopped , rolling into the thick rye stalks where , without bothering to see what damage his shot had done , he began reloading . |
| 29 | ‘ Yao-hoo ’ he let out as the record ended . |
| 30 | For the purpose of the story , the author has invented a peak — the Versücherin , or Temptress — of the same notoriety and ferocity as the Eiger , and which he places vaguely where the Eiger should be . |