Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb -s] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lives in a little castle , where he spends the whole day . |
| 2 | One of Quine 's highpoints on the record comes on Do n't Go , where he matches the despairing vocal with a stumbling , tongue-tied guitar line that breaks down continually into agonised microphonic feedback . |
| 3 | ‘ Even has a secret little den where he takes the other members of his gang . |
| 4 | The conductor often allows heavy , clumsy-sounding accentuation , for example in the bass air , where he misses the jaunty hornpipe rhythm . |
| 5 | Hughes had reached the part of his act where he introduces the odd joke about the Sinn Fein , the political wing of the IRA . |
| 6 | Although he sounds the traditional warning that all electronics are aids to ‘ proper ’ navigation it is perhaps a sign of the times that he admits that many now see the chart-and- pencil methods as aids to the electronics … |
| 7 | Although he believes the Labour vote is firmer than that of the Conservatives , the cautious conclusion in his camp is that , in the range of possibilities , a Labour majority government has a slight edge over Labour as the largest party in a hung parliament . |
| 8 | But although he sacrifices the transitory for the long-term , the latter are not differently or more solidly grounded ; indeed they are in danger of becoming rigid and brittle if they are not continually being enriched , modified and eroded by local and temporary reactions . |
| 9 | Kepler Wessels , the South African captain , has said , somewhat surprisingly , that he considers the one-day series and the Test to be of equal importance . |
| 10 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that he recognises the outstanding work done at Fleetlands ? |
| 11 | It is when the Great Detective makes a jump out of such ideas that he solves the baffling mystery , that he sees , to quote a famous example from Poe , that the best place to hide a letter is in a letter-rack . |
| 12 | Louis then swore in the lingua romana , so that Charles 's men would understand him : For the love of God and for the Christian people and for our common salvation , from this day henceforth , as far as God grants that I know and can , I shall so help this my brother Charles with my aid and in all things , as every man ought in right to help his brother , on condition that he does the like for me . |
| 13 | ( It is notable that he equates the simple , the sensuous , the repeated , with the childish . ) |
| 14 | Another academic suggested that Clinton 's ties with Britain lie only in his Oxford education , that he lacks the sentimental camaraderie of the last generation of US presidents who remembered , first hand , Britain as a redoubtable ally first against fascism and then communism . |
| 15 | Althusser 's historical interest derives from the fact that he represents the only orthodox Marxist theorist who has tried to get out of Hegel while remaining a Marxist — though for many Marxists he did sacrifice Marxism in the process , which only suggests how closely Marxism and Hegelianism are intertwined . |
| 16 | But our first experiment found that he neglects the left side of perceptual figures at a subsequent stage of attending to them . |
| 17 | The Spirit has shown that he validates the Christian mission among Jews , proselytes , ‘ Godfearers ’ ( as Gentile adherents on the fringe of the synagogue were called ) , and even outsiders like eunuchs and Samaritans . |
| 18 | Rachel 's former fiance revealed that he thinks the health-conscious Vogue model was duped into taking the drug at the bash at Wavertree Recreation Club in Liverpool . |
| 19 | He reckons it 's only because he loves the world and the people he knows that he hates the prevailing ‘ world order ’ . |
| 20 | It is one of the many strengths of Coetzee 's work that he recognizes the disruptive potential of the new organizations , but he concludes that ultimately they were of benefit to the Conservatives . |
| 21 | When Absolon brands Nicholas with the hot coulter there is an unmistakable innuendo that he disgraces the rampant Nicholas , who has replaced Alison at the window , with a homosexual assault . |
| 22 | The important aspect of Johnson 's statement is that he dismisses the whole phenomenon of labouring poets as misapplied patronage . |
| 23 | And it is in the privacy of his home that he demonstrates the ultimate love for his partner . |
| 24 | But our judge might be able to guarantee this by making plain that he intends the new rule to govern all future cases , and that the exception for Elmer was made possible only by the fact that no judge had laid down a similar rule before Elmer committed his crime . |
| 25 | This testimonial was given by Edmund Halley [ q.v. ] in a letter written ‘ By the command of the Royal Society ’ in 1693 : ‘ I have , by Order of the Royal Society seen and examined the method used by Mr John Marshall , for grinding glasses , and find that he performs the said work with greater ease and certainty , than hitherto has been practised , by means of an invention , which I take to be his own , and new , and whereby he is enabled to make a great number of Optick-Glasses , at one time , and all exactly alike , which having been reported to the Royal Society , they were pleased to approve thereof , as an Invention of Great Use , and Highly to deserve Incouragement . ’ |
| 26 | Some critics have interpreted this as evidence that he finds the human body disgusting , but the opposite is true . |
| 27 | Is it true that he knows the great geophysicist in the sky ? |
| 28 | Is he further aware that he carries the good wishes of the party behind him in the difficult few months to come and should go to the talks in great confidence , knowing of the great contribution that this country has made to Europe since the days of William Pitt ? |
| 29 | Having listened to the arguments of my Hon. Friends I do not know why the Minister has not leapt to his feet to say that he accepts the new clause . |
| 30 | It is also a rather different exhibition conceptually : Alfonso Perez Sanchez , former Director of the Prado and co-organiser of the show , has declared that he wants the Spanish to get to know ‘ the real Ribera ’ , which means that he has whittled down the number of works . |