Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb -s] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spring he dons his curious plumage : long ear tufts , and dramatic barred , streaked , blobbed or plain ruff-collar . |
| 2 | Each Tuesday he meets his unelected Cabinet , the Executive Council , and they approve — ‘ rubber stamp ’ is how critics describe it — legislation passed on by the Civil Service . |
| 3 | Leaving the Chelsea Arts Club he unlocks his fluorescent green mountain bike , which has a child 's seat on the crossbar . |
| 4 | From Hegel he derives his basic manner of thinking , asserting the primacy of experience . |
| 5 | He falls asleep with his head on her grave mound , to be taken away in spirit to a strange land where all his grief suddenly fades — and where to his utter delight he sees his lost child facing him , on the other side of a river . |
| 6 | A LITTLE boy is becoming withdrawn because he has so many ear infections he finds it difficult to hear , but his life could be revolutionised by one simple operation . |
| 7 | At one point he describes his two colleagues as cheerfully admitting that they could not write very well . |
| 8 | The jokes and the conversations end abruptly with ‘ But this is worshipful society ’ and at that point he shows his real toughness and ambition . |
| 9 | So it is a slow pitch , there 's very little pace in it for him , but it never puts him off , he still comes hurling in and er he 'll , he 'll flat out on anything , that it , we were saying some days he gets it right and others he does n't . |
| 10 | Far from calling himself a god he admits his own inadequacies — he can not rebuild the dome , he can not claim to have fed on honey-dew and drunk the Milk of paradise . |
| 11 | This encounter is n't Tyson 's only connection with Satriani ; as a one time pupil he remembers his unorthodox teaching style . |
| 12 | In the Adagio he sustains his slow tempo with a classical poise while never allowing us to forget , in his cutting definition of the recurrent accompanying triplet motif , the undertones beneath its major-key calm . |
| 13 | In two days we get everything we want and for the rest of the week he has his Christian customers . |
| 14 | As an adult he protects their future interests . |
| 15 | Of Merovech he records nothing other than his supposed descent from Chlodio and that he was the father of Childeric . |
| 16 | Mike , born in 1938 , did his national service in the RAF ; after early retirement from a teaching career he devotes himself full-time to his lifelong interest in the organisational and OOB aspects of almost all periods of military and naval history , and offers a paid service to researchers in his field of interest . |
| 17 | In introducing his characters he follows his usual method of direct statement in thumbnail sketches of red-haired Judd , the slow-witted giant Brett , ruthless , brilliant Wick and the plodding conformer Stringy . |
| 18 | As a manager he remains his own greatest fan and although his playing days are over , he was probably the most creative player on Rangers ' books : a genius in search of a mirror . |
| 19 | Again when Pharaoh makes Joseph vizier of Egypt he gives him special clothes , as does Joseph his brothers to mark his reconciliation with them . |
| 20 | The new hero , like Don Quixote , gets it wrong by study , but unlike Quixote he gets it right ( more or less ) by living , and he characteristically needs to educate himself by life after having partly de-educated himself through books . |
| 21 | As a result Robin 's stomach is in turmoil throughout the ceremony and the evening of the wedding ; in the marital bed he tells his new wife what has happened . |
| 22 | And if he decides to be a member of the Government he resigns his parliamentary seat and his replacement takes over without the need for a by-election . |
| 23 | In the opening soliloquy he declares his true intent : then Clarence will go to prison this day . |
| 24 | In the diver-picture he shows himself ready to adumbrate the idea of a spatial setting , but he is far more cautious and conventional than his Etruscan predecessor . |
| 25 | At present he combines his voluntary police work with a job driving for the Post Office in Darlington . |
| 26 | At present he combines his voluntary police work with a job driving for the Post Office . |
| 27 | On right-handers he has his whole body on the back of the bike , left leg in the sidecar , right leg in mid-air . |
| 28 | In Ego Dormio he explains to the Sister that as she grows in her love of Christ , she will find nothing matters to her but this love and the sin of man which disfigures it , and that all this is focused by thinking on the Passion of Christ : Although in The Form he makes it clear to Margaret that it is difficult to be too prescriptive about meditation , since God will put the kind of thoughts into her heart that are right for her , he does say in Emendatio Vitae that beginners in spiritual life may find the words of others helpful ( 8.120.31 – 2 ) and on occasions he himself wrote meditations on the Passion which embody his understanding of the catalysis they are designed to help . |
| 29 | In the end he does it all and more . |
| 30 | The way he wears you down , the way he bleeds you white — if his name were Julian Barnes , he would have long been known as the Glacier . |