Example sentences of "[adj] he [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To achieve this he takes in atmospheric air at the water surface and blows out mucus coated bubbles which adhere to each other and also to plant matter . |
| 2 | In this he refers to a St. Kilda man who had occasion to visit Harris and later Skye , and of that trip Buchan writes thus : — ‘ One of the things he and they with him wondered at most was , the Growth of Trees , they thought the Beauty of Leaves and Branches admirable , and how they grow to such a Height above Plants was far above their Conception . |
| 3 | This he refers to as ‘ cultural defence ’ . |
| 4 | For the horologist the nominal essence of the clock is an idea of its real essence ; in this he differs from the gazing countryman , to whom the nominal essence is simply some combination of various observable features . |
| 5 | This he describes as a ‘ complete upheaval ’ . |
| 6 | Another of his favourites seems to have been a tomato jam ; this he uses for a sweet called Peaches Barbara with cream and kirschwasser and pistachio nuts . |
| 7 | This he does at the highest level in the HERMS file structure , defining boxes in the work file for sub-teams to work within and inputting technical details as text in the technical file ; this latter entry could be considerable . |
| 8 | This he does by turning straight up , with his head towards the surface and wraps his body around to show off his lovely colours . |
| 9 | I looked at him and goes no no no Mr Mr he goes like this he goes like you know hi and I went oh I do n't even know you you dick head . |
| 10 | Walker ( 1975 ) has noted that mature students who did not satisfy the GER obtained significantly better degree results than all students while mature students who satisfied the GER did not differ significantly from the norm , and in seeking an explanation for this he points to the fact that those who did not satisfy the GER are on average somewhat older and can be seen as genuine returners , rather than students who have taken longer to meet the traditional qualifications . |
| 11 | This he attributes to our oceanic climate . |
| 12 | This he attributes to a resistance on the part of Northerners to adapt their speech towards a recognised stereotype , although they will happily adapt other vowels which carry less social significance . |
| 13 | He also says that he fears that he and his family , as members of the Bengali community , would be in danger of racial harassment if they lived in Carradale House , and this he supports with an affidavit on the subject of such harassment sworn by a former employee of his solicitors . |
| 14 | For this he stands in weariness , |
| 15 | This he succeeds in doing . |
| 16 | For this he performs in ten degrees . |
| 17 | In this he concentrates on two men guiding a crate on the end of a pulley . |
| 18 | Well not me and he does n't even know English he has to he 's bloody dum . |
| 19 | And sometimes Hywel goes out in the day with his gun and he shoots rabbits and pigeons and crows and foxes , and some he brings home to eat , and some he hangs in the hedges to remind the world that there is death . |
| 20 | He and She can refer to the third party in either of the triangular relationships , but in Sonnet 2 He refers to the Friend 's future child , while in 3 She refers to the Friend 's mother ; in 50 and 51 He refers to the poet 's horse ! |
| 21 | Off he goes , bzz , bzz , look-till he comes to the dog 's house . |
| 22 | In Section 2 he rejects the suggestion , conveyed by the exclamation , ‘ Surely a similarity must strike us , or we should n't be moved to use the same word ’ , that some act must precede the act of using the word ; and in Sections 5 and 10 he talks about the ‘ mistake ’ labelled by the word ‘ to make ’ as it occurs in the question , ‘ What made you call this ‘ red ’ ? ’ ) |
| 23 | In civilian parlance Major Mike Herriott , Who runs No 4 Region , could be described as the ‘ District Catering Operations Manager ’ , and as such he arranges for each of the twenty Master Chefs to receive regular visits from one of the team of three Area Catering Officers ( ACOs ) or six Area Catering Warrant Officers ( ACWOs ) . |
| 24 | As such he works from a sort of dichotomy of traditional and modern societies , the former based on his anthropological studies in Algeria . |
| 25 | Professor Miller , for such he has to be called for identification purposes , was first asked to give a definition of what psychology was , though the other Miller probably knew what the answer would be . |
| 26 | More likely , though , is my mates shopping me — I 'd end up in the back pages of 90 Minutes ( ‘ my mate 's sad cos he 's convinced he looks like Eric Cantona when in fact he 's got a face like an orangutan 's bum ’ ) or become the subject of an earnest letter in When Saturday Comes ( ‘ As a Whites fan since before my birth , I am appalled by the recent upsurge of so-called Canto lookalikes , I can no longer walk the streets without being overrun by people with sideburns and spurious French accents ’ , etc etc . ) |
| 27 | It was left to another youngster , Russell Beardsmore , playing so tiny he looks like a mascot among the big central defenders , to show United the way . |
| 28 | Dennis is lovely , and you can see how much he thinks of you . ’ |
| 29 | Is what , is where the money thing is coming in not , how much he saves on the level of service . |
| 30 | I was amazed , for example , by how much he talks about being black . |