Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] he [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , if Michael was set up then it 's obvious the killer wants him alive . ’ |
| 2 | If underwear keeps him interested , I 'm all for it . ’ |
| 3 | He is ever confused and his confusion makes him angry and I can not see that it can be helped though it is hard to endure . |
| 4 | But his workload makes him susceptible to fluid depletion and liable to be among the 35 per cent of marathon runners who suffer knee damage . |
| 5 | Darren Bicknell is impressed with Benjamin : ‘ His slingy action makes him difficult to pick up . |
| 6 | A picture of Jesse with his cart taken in 1932 outside the Black Boy shows him complete with white coat and advertising " Try our Home Made Ices " . |
| 7 | As his mind wanders guiltily over the past and longingly towards a future which even he now realises can never be , the Passacaglia motif anchors him more and more inescapably in the present , with the posse of Borough vigilantes coming nearer and nearer . |
| 8 | Well normally he says a salad makes him hungry . |
| 9 | The compromise of an extendible lead gives him some freedom to wander but it does give rise to ‘ incidents ’ . |
| 10 | This supposition has the form of a ‘ regulative hope ’ — both are adopted on the same basis that a card player bases his play on the hope of an improbable distribution of the cards if no other possible distribution gives him any chance of winning at all . |
| 11 | When the absurdly naive theatricals by which the clerks seek to cloak their scheme for preventing the miller 's stealing — which has increased from the " curteis " to the " outrageous " with the illness of their college 's manciple — reveal their design to him , he determines to steal yet more , out of pride , and out of his own version of measure for measure , but not out of covetousness : As soon as the two clerks can stop and consider the trick that has been played on them , we see that the miller 's action , motivated by his pride , hits directly at the pride of the clerks : Another offence to John 's pride leads him later to attempt to bed the miller 's wife , hearing the success of Alayn with the daughter ( 4199 – 209 ) . |
| 12 | His friend helps him close it . |
| 13 | A knowledge of appropriate theory and the techniques of curriculum development gives him certain tools to work with . |
| 14 | A population density of 35 per square mile gives less than 1,000 possible contacts within three miles to any individual : a density of 10,000 per square mile gives him 280,000 possible contacts in the same radius . |
| 15 | ‘ A student whose education enables him later in life to earn a higher income should return some of that income . ’ |
| 16 | It 'll do him good to get out for a while ; it 's being cooped up indoors all day makes him fidgety . ’ |
| 17 | This remarkable service makes him one of the longest serving employees and something to be proud of . |
| 18 | Perhaps Gould 's work on snail speciation gives him some peculiarly perceptive insights into the baseball world . |
| 19 | The double puts him equal top on 35 winners with Peter Scudamore . |
| 20 | His dazzling victory makes him one of just six men with a realistic chance of hitting the jackpot at the Palace 100,000 dollars for overall victory and 30,000 dollars for winning their particular event . |
| 21 | Although his voice rides the airwaves as fresh as it ever did , he admits that physically he is past his prime : arthritis brings him recurring pain in his legs although he has already lived 18 months longer than he was told a 60-a-day smoking habit would allow . |
| 22 | The sore , bruised , aching feeling makes him restless ; always having to change position . |
| 23 | Sir Allen Sheppard , GrandMet chairman , said the disposal leaves him free to focus on the group 's main strategy of ‘ developing highly branded businesses . ’ |
| 24 | His lack of a definable role makes him impossible to manage . |
| 25 | That 's all he gives away ; any further questioning makes him irritable and he refuses to answer further on this point . |
| 26 | Golden performance wins him many Aintree friends . |
| 27 | It would be foolish for western governments to relax the pressure while most of the reforms remain on paper ( so say a polite ’ no ’ to Solidarity 's Mr Lech Walesa if , after this week 's deal , the Polish government sends him cap.in-hand to the West ) . |
| 28 | He gives no Bill gives him fifty P , fifty P to , for whenever he sees her |
| 29 | He ‘ does n't drive much ’ : simply walking along the local village road gives him enough of the excitement of modern transport . |
| 30 | Merseyside has a weary scepticism about grand planning gestures , but Broome 's Alton Towers vision makes him impossible to ignore . |