Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb -s] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is echoed in many of his poems and particularly in ‘ A Farewell ’ , where he describes the rivulet flowing to the sea : |
| 2 | This is a slightly different scene to the one Tennyson portrays in the same setting in his poem ‘ The miller 's Daughter ’ , where he describes the miller consuming a beverage : |
| 3 | Possibly the earliest mention of what are probably Anglo-Saxon graves is that by the thirteenth-century chronicler Roger of Wendover in his Flores Historiarum where he describes the excavation by monks of St Albans in 1178 of ten human skeletons at Redbourne , Hertfordshire , believing some of them to be the bones of St Amphibalus ( Hewlett 1886 , 115 ) . |
| 4 | It would appear , however , that Chalmers is content at the Greenyards where he considers the quality of the coaching to be among the ‘ highest at club level in the UK . ’ |
| 5 | He keeps her a prisoner in a fish pond where he stores the catch . |
| 6 | There are quite sufficient echoes here to direct the reader to Keats 's ‘ ode on a Grecian Urn ’ where he finds the urn ‘ With brede/ Of marble men and maidens overwrought , / With forest branches … ‘ and finds too scenes of love ‘ For ever warm and still to be enjoyed , / For ever panting , and for ever young — ’ as well as the heifer approaching the altar ‘ with garlands dressed ’ . |
| 7 | Next month we 'll attack Cliff 's second solo , where he moves the song into the key of F. See you then . |
| 8 | There is one place only where he lifts the curtain . |
| 9 | Dr Michael Scott is a Senior Research Social Worker and Senior Counselling Psychologist with the Liverpool Personal Service Society , where he directs the Centre for Cognitive Behaviour Therapy . |
| 10 | Moreover , a third party may be prohibited from using confidential information where he obtains the information with actual knowledge that it was received as a result of a breach of confidence . |
| 11 | I believe in Jesus Christ , Born of a common woman , Who was ridiculed , disfigured and executed , Who on the third day rose and fought back ; He storms the highest councils , Where he overturns the iron rule of injustice . |
| 12 | As each succeeds she or he passes the cup to the next person until everyone has had their turn . |
| 13 | The doctor responsible for the treatment must make a written report to the supervisor if he is unwilling to continue with the treatment or he forms the view that : ( i ) it should continue beyond the period specified in the order ; ( ii ) the child needs different treatment ; ( iii ) he is not susceptible to treatment ; or ( iv ) he does not require further treatment . |
| 14 | The worker is defined as a free agent since she or he has the freedom to choose his or her employer . |
| 15 | PATRICK VAN DEN HAUWE is the professional Associationist born on 16 December 1960 in Dendermonde , Belgium ( although he represents the principality of Wales at ‘ international level ’ ) . |
| 16 | For instance , although he borrows the concept of mood from linguistics , he recognizes from the outset that , in contrast to ordinary language , narrative only knows the indicative mood ( there is no imperative or subjunctive forms of narrative ) , and that if his use of the term is to have any value at all it must be ‘ stretched ’ and given a metaphorical function . |
| 17 | Although the company used FlashPort to create a native version of ToolBox for PowerPC , Apple 's David Payne , engineering project leader for PowerOpen on Macintosh systems , says it will use internal emulation technology to bring current Mac applications over to PowerPC , although he concedes the Echo software can do the job too . |
| 18 | Professor Ted Wragg , GH 's Education Consultant , regrets this backward-looking view , although he thinks the report contains useful information . |
| 19 | Although he extols the yellow of spring , the green of summer , and ‘ the changling dresses of autumnal tints ’ ; these were for the sightseers not the painter . |
| 20 | Let us call these inferences that arise from observing the maxims standard implicatures ( the term is not Grice 's , although he introduces the term generalized implicature for a subset of these implicatures which do not require particular contextual conditions in order to be inferred ) . |
| 21 | So , all in all , although he reckons the outlook for facilities management is not quite as optimistic as people once thought , he does feel that ‘ there is a logic in making use of the experts ’ . |
| 22 | Again Balfour 's account is in substantial agreement , although he adds the gloss that when , at one stage in his summing up he referred to his assumption that Asquith would not serve under either Law or Lloyd George , Asquith intervened to say that he had not gone quite so far as that ; he must consult his friends before giving a final answer . |
| 23 | ‘ Although he has the King 's friendship … ’ |
| 24 | Eubank is n't a fucked-up man venting aggression in the ring , he 's a skilled professional , although he has the punch to destroy anyone in his division . |
| 25 | Stone , a man who has a strong sense of his own importance if nothing else , has told Premiere magazine that he hopes the film will be a ‘ Vietnamese Gone With The Wind ’ . |
| 26 | He says that he hopes the visit will finaly allay any fears people may have . |
| 27 | It was clear from Mr Lamont 's comments that he hopes the restructuring of the system will improve the investment climate for larger projects which create the bulk of the jobs in platform yards and oil-related engineering work . |
| 28 | I shall argue that he overstates the significance that can be attributed to literacy in itself : that he lends authority to a language for describing literacy practices that often contradicts even his own stated disclaimers of the ‘ strong ’ case ; that he understates the qualities of oral communication ; that he sets up unhelpful and often untestable polarities between , for instance , the ‘ potentialities ’ of literacy and ‘ restricted literacy ’ ; and that he polarises the differences between oral and literate modes of communication in a way that gives insufficient credit to the reality of ‘ mixed ’ and interacting modes . |
| 29 | While Max Warren is right to caution against an obsessive preoccupation with numbers , I believe that he overstates the case when he is so dismissive of all quantity measurement . |
| 30 | He added , ‘ I get the impression that he considers the choice for Britain to lie between conventional military action or conventional diplomatic action , and that he denies the possibility of a third course in between . |