Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [vb -s] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must know not only about the risks he wishes to avoid , or to take , and the price at which he is prepared to transact , but also more about the characteristics of the underlying instrument such as its volatility and the degree to which its price is correlated with the risky prospect against which he seeks a hedge ( or upon which he plans to speculate ) . |
| 2 | Sugar , holding a news conference at his lawyers ' offices after the judgment in his favour , ruled out the chance of any compromise deal with Venables , saying : ‘ I feel deeply aggrieved by the tactics he has adopted . |
| 3 | Keith Gregson , a history teacher at Brierton Comprehensive School in Hartlepool , has produced a book containing songs he has penned over 25 years . |
| 4 | In his songs he appears to realise that the dear old Blighty that he glorified has been reduced to a sorry Union Jack T-shirt on a frustrated football supporter . |
| 5 | I said I 've liked I 've liked most songs he 's put out I 've just never had an al bought an album or anything . |
| 6 | Remote too often as well from the readers he needs to reach . |
| 7 | ‘ Pah , nothing 's left from the previous existence — only the mere lees and dregs of thought , dreams of past time that the creature does not heed , or not half as much as the figments he has derived from Milton ! |
| 8 | By using very exact analytical methods he has determined that humans can change the electrical conductivity of the air around them . |
| 9 | Today he came face to face with the journalists he wants to reign in . |
| 10 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what new incentive to manufacturers he intends to introduce to stimulate the home machine tool industry . |
| 11 | The leitmotif of Coetzee 's book , as suggested by his title , is that the organizations he has studied faced an ongoing dilemma : whether to function as adjuncts of the Conservative party or to claim that their aims were ‘ national ’ and therefore ‘ above party ’ . |
| 12 | ’ cheery voice and shrill whistle will be sadly missed in Malt Dispatch by all the drivers he has guided back on to the doings ! |
| 13 | For two centuries he has stood between the Elves of Ulthuan and their many foes . |
| 14 | ‘ For centuries he has lived close to calamity : drought and flood threaten his crops and beasts ; diseases , infertility and death afflict his wife and children ; ghosts disturb his peace . |
| 15 | Three major contracts and another 19 minor ones are outstanding , but Mr Outhwaite yesterday declined to say whether he would have to increase the £305 million reserves he has set aside . |
| 16 | In most other respects he seems to have been anxious to preserve the status quo , and there was relatively little reshuffling of office . |
| 17 | In most other respects he seems to have been anxious to preserve the status quo , and there was relatively little reshuffling of office . |
| 18 | One party worker from a Midlands constituency said : ‘ I do n't mind how many kids he 's got , but Cecil Parkinson is too lightweight to become Chancellor . |
| 19 | Or how many kids he 's got . |
| 20 | This is a seven-headed coiled serpent facing the hero , who may be horned , holding aloft two heads he has cut away ( fig. 14.29 ) . |
| 21 | Renault 's out that 's on there the cars he 's got that |
| 22 | other guy , you know , he does it in garages , he 's done it quite a few times before on cars he 's had himself , so |
| 23 | Erm I mean he he he 's bought , I mean the presents he 's bought to be honest I mean I think oh my god what a waste . |
| 24 | Yes well it 's possible that er Alan may see a way to using that but he is quite ni , I mean he he 's got no doubts he wants to come to me he 's in a divorce at the moment and the moment that the final papers are signed , he 's got to get out of the house he has to stay there till the last minute and then the moment that the papers are signed , he must go . |
| 25 | In 15 years the 10,000 acres he leases have been sold at $120 an acre , then at $240 , and then seized by moneylenders when the drought of 1988 bankrupted an owner crippled with land boom loans . |
| 26 | Team worker I really really want to make sure that the whole team as people work together well that everybody 's happy such is the comment , is everybody happy , he wants to make sure that everybody as individuals is getting on well there 's no stresses or pressures through individuals , individual relationships he tries to keep things smooth within the team . |
| 27 | As an amateur , he has scrupulously declined invitations to conduct works other than the Second Symphony , thereby preserving the integrity of the performances he does give . |
| 28 | He is unable to concentrate on forms and reports because the words he reads undergo illicit manipulations that , like the pun , involve slippage and linguistic re-synthesis : |
| 29 | I wish to make the student look again at the words he wishes to set . |
| 30 | In other words he needs to go to launderette . |