Example sentences of "[pron] he [vb -s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I hope that when-that officer has to interview someone he gets more co-operation than I had from you . ’ |
| 2 | and he said and if he sells the car and keeps all the money and spends it on himself he says that 's gon na look , he 's gon na look really bad |
| 3 | And as to dictatorships — in which he says two people in every 100 are interested in politics as opposed to three in a hundred in a democracy — you could argue that some dictatorships succeeded because they appealed to primitive instincts in people who were not interested in politics . |
| 4 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 5 | The past becomes present to him with a total immediacy and a complete conviction which he says intellectual memory could never achieve . |
| 6 | Lastly , there is his first ‘ model ’ of agriculture , with its paupers , ruthless exploitation etc. , of which he says pre-revolutionary Russia was an example . |
| 7 | Ollie 's final offering looks destined to be , typically , as an uncredited sideman on Ayers ' ‘ Still Life With Guitar ’ on which he contributes one electric solo on the opening track and some acoustic bits and pieces including a self-penned instrumental . |
| 8 | He notes that a whole with parts of which this was true would be an organic unity in a sense different from his , a sense , however , which he thinks nonsensical . |
| 9 | ‘ Way of life ’ we have used to symbolise the familiar , the comfortable , a social world that appears to the actor as natural , without mystery or artifice , in which he feels confident , competent , at home . |
| 10 | So brief is the note , and couched in such general terms , that it is difficult to base much upon it , but worth noting are the facts that he clearly saw his choice as lying in the normal way between tedris and kaza , which he calls two paths or careers ; that a signal disadvantage of teaching was that it was unremunerative ; and , not least , that , unable to contemplate either alternative , he was able to find a home for his talents and interests in the bureaucracy . |
| 11 | If there is a court case , I shall refrain from commenting further , but would the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster urge the Tory party to refrain from wallowing in sleaze , which he calls scholarly ? |
| 12 | In order to clarify this Oakeshott distinguishes between two sorts of knowledge , which he calls technical and practical knowledge . |
| 13 | Vitruvius also refers to a variation on the Doric Order which he calls Tuscan ; this has an unfluted column shaft which stands upon an Ionic-type base ( VII and VIII ) . |
| 14 | He 's making sofas which he calls driving seats … and they 're selling all over the world . |
| 15 | A car enthusiast has found a new way of making money out of Minis … he 's turning them into furniture.He 's making sofas which he calls driving seats … and they 're selling all over the world.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 16 | This is the manner in which he justifies legal intervention . |
| 17 | One way in which he does that he thinks is by plural voting , that you give the educated more than one vote , he says we have to make sure the educated do n't form their own class with their own class interests , but , but giving the educated a bigger say will lead us to make better decisions he thinks . |
| 18 | His particular interest , it turns out , is in the ‘ non-You Sonnets ’ , the ‘ dramatic meditations ’ of his title , in other words the exception to the norm , to which he dedicates most of his space , studying in detail Sonnets 94 , 121 , 20 , 129 , and 146 . |
| 19 | Although regretting the need for such prosecutions , may I congratulate him on the vigour with which he prosecutes those who peddle such odious doctrines ? |
| 20 | This letter is included in a Historical and Topographical Description of Chelsea ( 1829 ) by William Faulkner , owner of a small bookshop in Paradise Row , close by the Physic Garden , to which he devotes some pages . |
| 21 | There are plenty of floating plants for the male to build a nest in , and a cave in which he spends most of his time . |
| 22 | ‘ His ’ life ( these people are still mainly male ) and that of his family are largely dominated by the large company in which he spends most of his working life . |
| 23 | But what holds the attention more is the way in which he characterises these rough incidents — which , judged by other accounts of the period , would commonly involve assaults on the police , bottle-fights and sometimes determined crowd resistance to arrest — as a ‘ good time ’ and a ‘ cheerful ’ brawl . |
| 24 | ‘ He 's got a rather grand name but we simply call him Billy , ’ said dad , who would n't let go of his famous foam mallet with which he bashes kiddy guests on his long-running TV-am show , Wacaday . |
| 25 | TO ROUND OFF THIS PIECE , I asked Yngwie to list ten albums which he considers essential listening for all guitarists . |
| 26 | Brotherston 's data for Scotland showed that working-class mothers were not only less likely to attend ante-natal clinics than middle-class mothers , but that when they did they were also less likely to make early bookings — a fact which he considers relevant to infant mortality . |
| 27 | Aleksandr Nikitenko believed that Valuev had embarked on " an enormous plan … to destroy any tendencies in literature which he considers harmful " . |
| 28 | The mystic surrenders his will to some being or idea which he considers superior to himself , whereas the anorexic strengthens her individual will against the impingements of an apparently inescapable reality . |
| 29 | Adorno has another small category , that of ‘ folklorist modernism ’ , into which he fits such composers as Bartók and Janáĉek . |
| 30 | The bitterness with which he attacks pastoral poetry implies a sense of loss : ‘ 'T IS all a gloomy , melancholy Scene , / Fit only to provoke the Muses ' Spleen ’ . |