Example sentences of "[adj] he [vb -s] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In place of this he asserts the rights of members of society to exercise supervision , as trustees of the property of the people , over economic and enterprise management , and to judge management performance . |
| 2 | As well as this he mentions the issue of settling for half , ‘ Now we settle for half , and I like it better . ’ |
| 3 | By this he means the degree to which an individual wants and chooses to engage in certain specified behaviour is low . |
| 4 | Funny he gets the wonder lust when he meets Sam he goes off does n't he ? |
| 5 | Thomson 's latest letters to the media very , but in some he explains the decades of delay with a puzzling tale of his attempts to ‘ shield the Blumleins from the belated discovery that a person close to them had supplied me with letters … stolen from the late Mr A K Van Warrington ’ . |
| 6 | 2 He delivers the side thrust kick to the chin , pushing the hips into the kick . |
| 7 | In Section 2 he rejects the suggestion , conveyed by the exclamation , ‘ Surely a similarity must strike us , or we should n't be moved to use the same word ’ , that some act must precede the act of using the word ; and in Sections 5 and 10 he talks about the ‘ mistake ’ labelled by the word ‘ to make ’ as it occurs in the question , ‘ What made you call this ‘ red ’ ? ’ ) |
| 8 | 2 He lifts the knee while turning , thrusting the hips into the kick . |
| 9 | 2 He throws the hips into the kick . |
| 10 | By 1995 he wants the company to earn 20 per cent of its revenues from services such as consulting , software and management . |
| 11 | NO-ONE else will believe him , but Martin Richards is convinced he has the edge on Northampton 's Wayne Shelford in today 's most fascinating Pilkington Cup third-round tie . |
| 12 | ‘ But I am now convinced he has the talent and is ready for the big challenge every Manchester United player faces . ’ |
| 13 | You get , I mean , Dave and Steve , alright , they 've never been my favourite people but all this pious goings-on with Dave , how much he hates the town clerk , and whatever opportunity he could get he would |
| 14 | The hon. Member for Hammersmith was at pains to point out , in an intervention in my hon. Friend 's speech , how much he supports the Government 's policy . |
| 15 | In the decretal " Novit ille " , written to the archbishops and bishops of France , Innocent declared how much he has the interests of King Philip Augustus and his kingdom at heart and how wrong it would be to assume that he had any intentions that were harmful to the French king 's jurisdictional powers . |
| 16 | This time I make sure he gets the taps . |
| 17 | Collecting experts say the enthusiast will probably make sure he gets the car of his dreams . |
| 18 | Make sure he uses the word again soon in his writing , but naturally . |
| 19 | But he seems downbeat by nature and I 'm not sure he has the resilience to rally a losing club . |
| 20 | In Henry IV , Parts I and II he has the time of his life . |
| 21 | presumably by the latter he means the mine at Hawk Rigg , north of Blake Rigg , north of Tilberthwaite Gill . |
| 22 | Yet this scandalous polysemity is already potential in the words of one of Paul 's New Testament Epistles , where in I Corinthians 7 : 3 he creates the concept of the conjugal debt , writing , " let [ the husband ] pay the debt " ( New English Bible : " " The husband must give the wife what is due to her , and the wife equally must give the husband his due " " ) . |
| 23 | 3 He lands the kick with the heel of the foot . |
| 24 | He is in slight shock , but he wishes to carry on his holiday and as far as he is concerned he believes the terrorists wo n't beat him . ’ |
| 25 | The Prime Minister decided to unveil Manchester 's ‘ unique ’ £1.5 billion blue-print for the Games at his Downing Street home to emphasise how important he believes the bid is for both the city and the nation . |
| 26 | First he takes the city council to task for presenting the LET scheme as a fait accompli , criticising it for ‘ accepting without question LET's objective of redevelopment in the form of 500-metre-long , inward-looking building ’ . |
| 27 | First he notices the dog . |
| 28 | I need guidance on how sensational he wants the script to be . |
| 29 | Id only just been telling my girlfriend my favourite quip about how he only scores because he s SO ugly he scares the defenders . |
| 30 | Thus , in the first scenes of the play Anderson tends to favour positive politeness strategies ( complimenting the addressee 's positive face ) and among these , Leech 's approbation maxim is prominent : in both scenes one and two he praises the universities to which McKendrick and Chetwyn belong , and thus , by association , the academics themselves . |