Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [vb -s] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The isolation he keeps me in . |
| 2 | He stares at the streets near him and hopes the grief he sees there is something that happens to other people . |
| 3 | West wins this third Diamond trick with the Queen and all he has left in his hand are 3 Hearts , and whatever card he plays he must give you the last three tricks in that suit . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ Inside the ring he impresses you with his style and his marvellous technique . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ Inside the ring he impresses you with his style and his marvellous technique . |
| 6 | In spring he dons his curious plumage : long ear tufts , and dramatic barred , streaked , blobbed or plain ruff-collar . |
| 7 | We can only speculate on Wordsworth 's political beliefs before 1792 — in The Prelude he attributes his awakening to a French soldier , Beaupuy — ( see below ) . |
| 8 | Leaving the Chelsea Arts Club he unlocks his fluorescent green mountain bike , which has a child 's seat on the crossbar . |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose he 's a bit old for that sort of thing , ’ said Lili , ‘ although with that ridiculous car he drives he does seem to be trying to give an impression of boyish insouciance . ’ |
| 10 | In today 's programme he gives us an exclusive interview , the first since his heart attack four months ago . |
| 11 | After watching this film I have overthrown an ideal I have cherished and protected against every attack for more than 30 years : that in no circumstances should a man be murdered by conscious decision of the State in revenge for a murder he has himself committed . |
| 12 | so he says but I do n't know what to do he says cos if there 's a job you know , if there 's any overtime , cos there ai n't been none but if there 's any overtime he says I do n't know what to do I said bloody do the overtime , let her hang about . |
| 13 | where you been , I says where you been , aye he says aye he says , my fault he says I did n't get round did I ? |
| 14 | By pre-adjunct he means adjectives in prenominal attributive position ; by characterisation he means something like inherent or permanent ( to which one should perhaps add some cautious and flexible condition such as " in the circumstances " ) . |
| 15 | In situations of moral dilemma he does what he considers must be done , even though it involves him in distress and suffering . |
| 16 | Further on in the above entry he admits he can only be less than himself in company . |
| 17 | Or , one might say , the Reeve 's Prologue is where the Reeve makes his confession , publicly , and thus frees himself from the charge of seeing motes in the eyes of others and ignoring a beam in his own : which is just the figure he ends his Prologue with in commenting upon the Miller . |
| 18 | Having rebelled against his childhood religion he describes himself as a ‘ prolapsed ’ Catholic . |
| 19 | These various substantives evoke a state or quality which disposes the support to perform an action ( willingness , desire , impudence , ability , etc. ) , an action he performs which prevents or could prevent him from realizing it ( hesitation , refusal , reluctance , etc. ) , something he needs in order to realize it ( right , permission ) , a circumstance in which he finds himself which favours something 's occurrence ( chance , occasion ) , etc. — all of which evoke a situation existing before the infinitive event , and so imply a reference to a prior position of the support . |
| 20 | In his key he differentiates them on the number of arm spines and suggested that A. grandis could be separated from A. otteri by its ridged proximal ventral arm plates and by a lower number of arm spines . |
| 21 | But every time Marky opens his mouth he blows it . |
| 22 | On the basis of this identification he feels himself to be a defender of the ‘ national heritage ’ of the nation' . |
| 23 | In a fairy-tale scene he kisses her and she becomes beautiful , but after their betrothal she confesses her past sins and the weakness of her nature , imploring Leo to love her only in a spiritual sense . |
| 24 | No wonder he claims his fans are all threatening to top themselves ; they 're so stupid that they do n't realise jumping off a five-foot-high stage wo n't kill them — IM |
| 25 | It 's alright in the winter he keeps your back warm . |
| 26 | From sand he pours himself into deep water , |
| 27 | In his poetry he describes himself as ‘ one bred up in homely Cott ’ . |
| 28 | He carries a portfolio with him when he goes out to work he has them blown up . |
| 29 | In his own practice , if he finds a patient who is a particularly good subject for hypnosis he asks them if they would like to try re-regression for interest 's sake ; if they agree , with their permission he records the session . |
| 30 | And the , I went to the my little now in Italy , making this conditional he says it 's no bloody good on me , poor old curly what , I think he 's about ninety , he looked it , he said what they keep making you conditional for he said you 've got no ruddy condition it 's gone and the , the recommended me for a complete discharge and , and eh , I started off with fifty per cent pension . |