Example sentences of "he [verb] [art] [det] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He passed the same group of children playing on the rocks and was surrounded , as on the previous day , by a dozen or so pairs of inquisitive hands , young but not so innocent . |
| 2 | But he displays the same choosiness in this area too : ‘ I find most of the things on television are pretty repetitive . |
| 3 | He applied the same principle to the Germans , who had participated through the Prussians in the dismemberment of Poland . |
| 4 | Unfortunately he applied the same stricture to himself and some of his works are rather limited . |
| 5 | He then went and called on a Mrs who 'd got a confectionery shop , corner of Road and Road and a hard luck story there , he got a few pound for doing out the sacrament , he got some money from her . |
| 6 | Later in the year he conveyed the same message to the visiting American Under-Secretary of State , George Ball . |
| 7 | But this in essence is just what Pooh did when he inferred the same belief about honey from his direct observation of bees . |
| 8 | Again he found the same link between unemployment and mortality . |
| 9 | The Campbells found Hector hardy , which they had expected , and intelligent , which they had n't ; while he found the same thing about them , in reverse ; and they were each surprised to find that-they liked the others well enough , in spite of their ridiculous clothes . |
| 10 | In a hotel corridor , a very tall man in a vest , braces and crumpled suit is stooped next to a door , demonstrating that he has no more notion of how a Savoy room key works than your ordinary mortal . |
| 11 | With Serafin back in Oxford and Mrs Padmore hard at work on the tapes he has a little time on his hands . |
| 12 | The hon. Gentleman will forgive me if I say that he has the same problem with me that I have with the Whips Office . |
| 13 | He has the less scruple in issuing such orders because he can say that he is really doing what is in the man 's own highest interest . |
| 14 | 160 , the visitors observed that Lord Denning was not using the word ‘ delegate ’ in the narrow sense in which it is sometimes used today any more than Lord Mansfield had when he used the same word in a similar context in Rex v. Benchers of Gray 's Inn , 1 Doug . |
| 15 | But then Carver had heard that on other occasions he used the same language about Galvone . |
| 16 | Face it , he used the same joke on everybody . |
| 17 | He used the same line with his mother ; for once he did n't give her the real reason . |
| 18 | and he wants the same facility with his left as with his right . |
| 19 | He says the same thing about a range of measures , including the measures advocated by the Labour party , which would put many part-time women employees out of work . |
| 20 | Then he transferred the same hand to the back pocket of his trousers and did some not very good patting of both flanks . |
| 21 | In the extreme south Italy 's history follows , naturally , a Sicilian pattern : we saw that Anaxilas of Rhegion married into the Syracusan tyrannical house , and he practised the same kind of aggression against the neighbouring Greek states as his Sicilian contemporaries . |
| 22 | He uses the same strategy in scene one when he realises that he has failed to infer from McKendrick 's prompting that he should have recognised him . |
| 23 | He adopted the same principle in the spandrels as William Edwards had used eight years before at Pontypridd ( q.v. ) , lightening the load with hollow tunnels through the rubble infilling . |
| 24 | He adopted the same tactic in Biarritz , with the same result . |
| 25 | He adopted the same line in his lectures on the foetal circulation — this was a subject of little practical importance , but it was one of which a properly educated man should have some appreciation . |
| 26 | Rostov saw the Adjudicator 's eyes widen in surprise as he recognised the same colouring in the skin around the admiral 's high cheekbones . |
| 27 | As the pair reached the bottom he saw that she was , as Eleanor had said , very thin , but he noticed the same rhythm in her movements as she walked across the cove . |
| 28 | In a curious way — Letterman thinks — he bears the same relationship to Parisian life that the Hispanics have to LA life . |
| 29 | He directed the same charge against Schleiermacher as well , and in this paved the way for Ritschl and Liberal Theology ( Ritschl himself began his career as a New Testament scholar in the Tübingen tradition ) . |
| 30 | He assumed the same outlook in those with whom he played . |