Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] he [vb -s] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wearing — always — dead simple casual clothes that flatter his lightly-tanned complexion , pale silver hair and famous aquamarine eyes , he dines on spartan , spiceless fare in his minimalist palazzo on Via Borgonuovo , where blank corridors link white-walled offices with the plain , pictureless apartment where he lives alone while a bodyguard sleeps below . |
| 2 | Allan Brawley is Professor of Social Work at The Pennsylvania State University where he teaches social policy and social work with the ageing . |
| 3 | I know of one evangelist who puts aside one day a month for prayer and retreat at a Roman Catholic monastery where he receives much support . |
| 4 | Now I want a top three medal , and I genuinely believe I can get one , ’ he said at the Luton social club where he runs one of the few silat classes in this country — there are less than a hundred active practitoners of the martial art in Britain . |
| 5 | Bryan is prepared to arrange a programme once he has more details about their specific interests . |
| 6 | The orchestra contains pairs of horns and trumpets , but Leppard manages it with more lightness than he accords other work and textures are accordingly more transparent and Mozartian . |
| 7 | Marx argued that the division of labour in capitalist society causes the worker to lose control over the conditions and fruits of his labour , with the result that he becomes estranged both from himself and from his fellow men . |
| 8 | Hobbes ‘ s talk of ‘ true ratiocination ’ is an indication that he has some theory of what reason or ratiocination is , some explanation or analysis of it . |
| 9 | During the last couple of months that he holds that office , he will be judged harshly on what he does . |
| 10 | The same experience comes from some few words of a poet or a mystic ; it is as if the emotions of the poet that he has graven in his poem strike a response and the mind is transported . |
| 11 | and eventually he 's the killer and he gets killed , right . |
| 12 | Mind you , he runs the skittles and he runs football and he does this and runs that . |
| 13 | Joanna Lumley , Mick Jagger and Anna Ford are all older than the new US President and he has six years advantage on Cliff Richard . |
| 14 | Claims lawyer Leslie Perrin is wading through more than a hundred cases of people who say they 've fallen victim to the virulent chryptosporidium bug and he believes that 's just a small percentage of the number who could eventually seek damages . |
| 15 | Clinton will spend the next few days meeting a wide range of individuals but will not announce any appointments to his administration until he feels comfortable , said spokeswoman DeeDee Myers . |
| 16 | After the war Goldschmidt played a central role in the development of the French nuclear power programme and he has some complimentary , uncomplimentary and candid things to say about the British civil nuclear power programme . |
| 17 | David Whitehouse has enough letters of character reference to paper Bermondsey warehouse and he seems anxious to read all of them . |
| 18 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has any plans to meet the chief constable of Essex to discuss proper implementation of section 39 of the Public Order Act 1986 in the Thurrock parliamentary constituency . |
| 19 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he has any plans to increase the penalties for the unlawful occupation of private or public land by traveller families ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 20 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he has any plans to visit Mucking Flats in south-east Essex , to discuss industrial growth in the area . |
| 21 | Well it , it shows come on I 'm gon na hit the brake , he 's got a chuffing accelerator pedal , a clutch and a bloody brake pedal there and he 's banging like this and it 's brake 's not working prop it 's , it 's funny , but there was a bloody tent there as well er where the Charlie Sheen is like an indian , and he 's in this tent and this bloke calls to thingybob and he presses this bloody doorbell on it on this tent , it 's funny , I tell you it is funny when you wa er when you actually watch it . |
| 22 | In the case of pressure by customers , however , according to the court decision , the employer can only dismiss an employee if he faces substantial economic damage due to the customer 's threat to end his business relationship . |
| 23 | But Prince only gets £5 million per album if he sells 5 million copies — or a new fee is agreed . |
| 24 | Pretending to be worried about the painters and the incriminating evidence against them — ‘ It 's very , very important for them ! ’ — Porfiry asks Raskolnikov if he has any recollection of passing an open door on the lower landing and seeing two men at work inside . |
| 25 | Is a judge ever conscious that his reputation as a judge is likely to be adversely affected in their eyes if he decides one way , and favourably affected if he decides another way ? |
| 26 | We have been here five months and he has one month left to complete his sixty . |
| 27 | He is in a better position than others to initiate confrontation and he has some resources at his disposal . |
| 28 | Throughout the great early Irish epic tale Táin Bó Cuailnge there are times when one of the heroes , King Conchubar , spends a third of his day feasting , a third watching the young warriors wrestle and a third drinking coirm until he falls asleep . |
| 29 | Terry Biddlecombe says its a good horse and he thinks this is magic for racing … lots of happy people who own their own horse |
| 30 | He says he feels sorry for his brother , he fears he may return to a life of crime if he gets desperate for cash . |