Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb -s] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a somewhat artificial rule , a servant who receives a thing from his master for the master 's use is deemed not to be in possession of it , though the contrary is true where he receives it from a stranger for the master 's use . |
| 2 | There is a delightful passage where he addresses himself to the role of dreams and faces out the difficulty inherent in medieval lore which others like Chaucer resolve through ambiguity : namely , that in a situation where some dreams were held to reveal truth and others to be the products of a disordered digestive system , it is difficult to distinguish true from false . |
| 3 | Or he grabs him by the hair , drags back the head , makes the first deep cut . |
| 4 | The motorist is driving too fast because he does n't expect any children , or he expects them to be careful ’ |
| 5 | Although he describes himself as a ‘ a damn uneducated mountain fella ’ , he managed to convert a 1500 dollar bank loan into a 100 million dollar fortune in less than 20 years . |
| 6 | Although he describes himself as a simple Buddhist monk , he has become an international figure , touring the world to give talks and also meeting many world leaders , dignitaries and religious figures . |
| 7 | Although he promotes himself as a friend of John Major , the Conservative Party has for some inexplicable reason been unable to find him a job in the Government where his extensive talents could be stretched . |
| 8 | Although he mentions it to me , he finds he is unable to display this aspect to men . |
| 9 | The fact that he rapes her on the night that Stella 's baby is born , on their bed , and in his wedding pyjamas makes Stanley seem even more bestial . |
| 10 | In both cases the wages of journeywomen were so low that he associates them with prostitution : " Take a survey of all the common women of the town , who take their walks between Charing Cross and Fleet Ditch , and I am persuaded more than half of them have been bred milliners . " |
| 11 | What is most important , however , is that he embodies them in a distinction , crucially important for his thought , between two sorts of science : ‘ indefinite science ’ , which ‘ consists in the knowledge of the causes of all things ’ , and the study of some ‘ limited ’ question about the ‘ cause of some determined appearance ’ such as heat . |
| 12 | The story he told was precisely the story that Lanfranc had told in 1072 , with the single exception that he says nothing about the ultimum quasi robur of the whole case in the series of documents mentioned by Lanfranc . |
| 13 | If he proposes to say something new , I hope that , as the guardian of the interests of all parts of the House , you Mr. Speaker , will make representations to try to make sure that he does it in the House rather than just making a speech or holding a press conference , even if it is in Wales . |
| 14 | The fact that he gets it by being told it , as opposed to observing it for himself , is incidental . |
| 15 | Marry , so there have been diverse good plots devised and wise counsels cast already about reformation of that realm , but they say it is the fatal destiny of that land that no purposes whatsoever are meant for her good will prosper or take good effect , which whether it proceed from the very genius of the soil , or the influence of the stars , or that Almighty God hath not yet appointed the time of her reformation , or that He reserveth her in this unquiet state still , for some secret scourge which shall by her come unto England , it is hard to be known but yet much to be feared . |
| 16 | His , though , is a concern with modern city life rather than with the truly rural , and it is in the sheer acreage of glass in the walls of the towering skyscraper blocks that he devotes himself to a series of studies on the diagonal . |
| 17 | At all events we shall not go wrong in assuming that it is not without good reason that he tells us of so impressive a roll call of nationalities on the day of Pentecost ( 2:5–11 ) . |
| 18 | Just to convince us that all these things that he tells us about are somehow present , to convince us of the heinousness of what he 's done . |
| 19 | In the second play , Audience , Ferdinand is called in by the head maltster , played by Freddie Jones , who insists that he joins him for a drink and a chat . |
| 20 | But even if your romantic beau whispers ‘ I love you ’ daily in your shell-like , it does n't mean that he loves you in the way that you love him . |
| 21 | Here , his unequivocal response to Mrs Hollar 's pleas — " Mrs Hollar , I will do everything I can for him " ( p. 82 ) — is made more emphatic by the fact that he interrupts her in order to say it , and its effect is to affirm his commitment to help at the expense of any considerations for his negative face , a change in priorities which is central to the development in Anderson 's character . |
| 22 | He makes it repeatedly clear that he addresses himself to the Greeks who have little knowledge of Roman institutions ; but on the other hand he refers to Roman readers ( 6.5 1 .3–8 ) and is quite obviously looking at them over his shoulder . |
| 23 | The dream can seem so real that he believes himself to be wide awake . |
| 24 | He claims that he regards himself as ‘ someone who has stepped off the edge of a cliff ’ . |
| 25 | She may wish to look at it , but the shadow Chancellor has made it plain that he will not , telling readers of the Morning Star , the only newspaper to support the minimum wage , that he regards it as ’ an unwavering commitment not open to negotiation . ’ |
| 26 | I do n't suppose it 's serious , but he 's so terrified of Blue Ear Disease that he watches them like a hawk . ’ |
| 27 | He does n't see us as a part of a crowd , he does n't see us as a number on a computer , he does n't see us as numbers on a bank account , or in some other organizational er er er computer set up or whatever it is , he does n't just see us as that he sees us as individuals . |
| 28 | Apart from and me , there is , a rather lugubrious ( though pleasant ) Peruvian , and , the French Canadian , whole reminds me of , in that he expects everything to be done for him at little cost in exchange for a good wit and ready sense of humour — also like , he plays the piano , with a special line in French songs . |
| 29 | It is thus that he declares himself for Dunning 's sapphics , flashing out at ‘ any one who can not feel the beauty of their melody ’ ( my italics ) . |
| 30 | By a combination of Impressionist vision , imagination , a magical mastery of language , Proust uses À la recherche to explore often banal objects , often apparently dull people , often apparently trivial episodes , in such a way that he recreates them with a freshness , erm a power of conviction , that persuade us we 're actually seeing them with a privileged insight , or perhaps even seeing them for the first time . |