Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what revenue he expects from the proceeds of privatisation for the period of the public expenditure survey . |
| 2 | ‘ So you have to keep at him because like all kids he lives for the telly and various electronic gadgets and he 'd be quite happy eating crisps and playing for the rest of his life . |
| 3 | K. Barrett 's book , Luke the Historian in Recent Study is the weight he gives to the Word as the prime agency through which the Spirit extends the good news of Christ . |
| 4 | Certainly things went wrong when he was Chancellor , but none of it was his fault he explains in THE VIEW FROM NO. 11 ( Bantam Press , Pounds 20 ) . |
| 5 | When an accomplished actor like ( bridegroom 's name ) realizes he is going to have a speaking part in the wedding ceremony he jumps at the opportunity . |
| 6 | Every Friday he lunches in the Glasgow Art Club with about a dozen friends and only displays momentary irritation when he fails to hear an occasional bon mot . |
| 7 | Arieti , an expert on both creativity and schizophrenia — and therefore the most qualified among these contemporary psychiatric writers to comment — is equally disappointing in the light he throws on the issue . |
| 8 | The document is aimed at stimulating international solidarity , not only with regard to the effects of the refugee crisis , but above all tot he causes of the tragedy . |
| 9 | Lindsey sleeps in Richard 's bed and Richard he sleeps on the settee . |
| 10 | By employing this structured procedure the designer now has control over the data he recalls from the turnkey system . |
| 11 | Within 6 months he excels at the art . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , during Antony 's soliloquy at the end of the scene he refers to the murderers as ‘ butchers ’ , and ‘ bloody men . ’ |
| 13 | No wonder he sits in the chair and does nothing . |
| 14 | Gooch produces evidence that our own society , which he claims is derived from that of the Cro-Magnons , still shows traces of the social mores he ascribes to the Neanderthals . |
| 15 | It 's just that he seems so caring … in the work he does with the handicapped … ’ |
| 16 | He was Raven Maize , a mysterious man with ‘ Together Forever ’ , a club hit in '89 , and far more soulful than the pristine work he offers at the moment : ‘ In those days I could record for nothing . |
| 17 | Indeed , he thinks that whereas the master fails to gain a proper sense of himself from the slave , because the slave merely carries out his ( the master 's ) will , the slave does gain a certain degree of self-consciousness by means of the work he performs for the master . |
| 18 | What we find in Guerrillas is a narrative of unfailing fascination which delivers to the senses of the reader a country very like the countries he knows in the real world : equally , his experience of that country is very like his experience of Naipaul 's India , in being rarely subdued by an awareness of the writer 's more deliberate meanings . |
| 19 | When the Theogonist accompanies the Empire army into battle he rides on the mobile War Altar of Sigmar , a huge chariot which carries the sacred altar surmounted by a huge statue of a griffon . |
| 20 | In Leicestershire , the man who wishes to forget income-tax , hydrogen bombs and the relentless onward march of science walks the field-paths , to which special maps and guides are provided ; in Devon he takes to the deep lanes between the farms . |
| 21 | Chairman of the FUW 's farm tourism committee he serves on the steering group of Menter Powys and is vice-chairman of Food From Britain 's joint venture steering group for sheep which is currently investigating prospects for marketing quality Welsh lamb . |
| 22 | He claimed it came from his fully- equipped TV centre above the pub he runs in the centre of Liverpool |
| 23 | It is the passage he reads in the synagogue of his home town at the outset of his work . |
| 24 | I do n't know what he 's got against roses , but if you use even one in a bouquet he goes up the wall . |
| 25 | The fee charged by the agent is , naturally enough , directly proportional to the compensation he gleans from the public authority on behalf of his client . |
| 26 | I do regret the waste of his remarkable talents and wonder about the flattering noises he makes towards the Labour Party . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Since then he has spent his time equally divided between Belfast and a home he has in the south of France . |
| 29 | On his travels he passes through the tower vaults ( unpleasant ) , local village ( worse than Ludlow ) , Baron Frankenstein 's Castle ( tasteless decor ) , Black Forest ( well , more green than black ) , Graveyard ( dead dudes ) and The Morgue ( Spectrum Fan Club offices ) . |
| 30 | When not leading the armies to war he dwells at the court of the Everqueen and keeps the peace in Avelorn , slaying marauding monsters and hunting down bands of Beastmen and Goblins . |