Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb -s] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wins the pools and with that money he buys an isolated country cottage , where he plans to keep Miranda until she falls in love with him . |
| 2 | Dr Guttering is consultant psychologist to the Royal Institute of British Architects , where he has studied Prince Charles 's compulsion to attack contemporary architects . |
| 3 | It will pass in a succession of aimless walks and endless glasses of beer in the picturesque little French town where he has sought refuge . |
| 4 | Norwich-trained Paul John , now of the Manchester-based Book Art Project , offers his extended pop-up Dance Book to set alongside Dan Harvey 's third variation on The Living World , where he has planted grass seeds in an old Bible which is appropriately open at Matthew 13 and which tells the parable of the sowing of the seed . |
| 5 | Lewis grew up in Forest Gate in east London , where he remembers causing problems at school ( 'I was n't a hooligan or anything like that , but I was pretty rough' ) and following West Ham . |
| 6 | Thus if an individual is to be deprived of a benefit which was enjoyed in the past , and which he could legitimately expect to continue , or he has received assurances from the decision-maker that such a benefit will not be withdrawn without giving him some opportunity to argue the contrary , then in either instance an opportunity for the individual to make representations will be accorded . |
| 7 | This is Dr G 's dilemma : that although he tries to inculcate students with a sense of the beauty and joy of the subject , and to stimulate their minds , they often refuse to think , or to be critical and regard physics in an entirely instrumental way , as a degree to be gained , which will enable them to do something ‘ useful ’ , namely defence research . |
| 8 | The England captain is a level-headed man , and Javed Mianded , who turns 35 on June 12 , is a much matured person with the added responsibility of leading his team to England for the first time , although he has captained Pakistan in 28 previous Tests , winning 11 and losing five , the rest being drawn . |
| 9 | Although he has given evidence before in a real life case , he still found the experience very worthwhile . |
| 10 | There is no prospect of Taylor closing the door on his World Cup party , although he has limited changes this time . |
| 11 | Lisson only has two women on his books , although he has shown women in the past . |
| 12 | He is so afraid of being controlled himself ( being done to as he himself does ) that he continues to control others to avoid becoming a victim himself and so having to face humiliation . |
| 13 | I imagine he may be thinking of keeping on the mill as a holiday home and feels it 's time to acknowledge that he does have neighbours . |
| 14 | It is coercive and not mere idle abuse and demands either action or abstention from action on the part of the recipient , so a mere announcement by A that he proposes to strike B is not , for the purposes of the law , a ‘ threat ’ and can not of itself give rise to a claim for damages . |
| 15 | Related to this is Brunner 's objection that he led theology back into a ‘ false objectivism ’ , the complaint we shall later find Reinhold Niebuhr making that he does not take the challenge and struggle of Christian life sufficiently seriously , and the widespread feeling that he seeks to approach theology , and especially christology , ‘ from above ’ , from the side of God , whereas today we must work ‘ from below ’ , from ‘ the man Jesus ’ and ‘ the human situation ’ . |
| 16 | He takes him to a football training course , because he does n't like to think that he goes to play football on the park . |
| 17 | ITALY 'S heavyweight opera star Luciano Pavarotti yesterday dismissed reports that he plans to quit opera to concentrate on recitals . |
| 18 | Employment Minister Eric Forth said yesterday ( Tuesday ) that he plans to ask tourism authorities to stage a national tourism week to promote the UK and boost visitors here . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , it is precisely at the point when the plaintiff can not succeed in a claim in negligence that he needs to have recourse to the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher . |
| 20 | In Castenada 's case , he ‘ enters a world so different that he comes to accept reality itself as nothing but a social construct , with effects so devastating … that ethnography becomes mysticism ’ ( Goward 1984 : 90 ) . |
| 21 | Predictably , the terse prose of Hemingway is found to lack the transformational complexities typical of Faulkner : which is not to say that Hemingway is innocent of transformations , only that he tends to use transformations of a different kind . |
| 22 | That makes over fifty ponies he 's sold this year that he claims took part . |
| 23 | His passion to serve the underprivileged is such that he claims to find God in the hearts of the poor . |
| 24 | Moran knows a bit about markets : he has a personal fortune estimated at £150 million , and he has just announced that he intends to spend £25 million converting a remnant of medieval London into a sumptuous family home . |
| 25 | Will the Secretary of State now admit that he intends to privatise part of the local schools inspectorate ? |
| 26 | When Roderigo , ‘ this poor trash of Venice ’ , leaves , Iago tells us that his plan is still vague , but that he intends to bring Othello to the point where surface and reality are so inverted that he will ‘ thank ’ Iago for making him an ass , In the event , Iago succeeds in making Cassio drunk , proceeds to ‘ put ’ him into an ‘ action ’ that — just like the tribunes ' manipulation — degrades him yet ‘ approves my dream ’ ( II.iii.58ff. ) — his fantasy or plan of success . |
| 27 | I never said he was , I just said that he 's called Paddy . |
| 28 | ‘ If the Sergeant arrives and sees our cart gone , is n't that the first thing he 'll think , that he 's got word and bolted ? ’ |
| 29 | Cos Chris was saying things like oh his , yeah he 's been to the funeral and erm he 's all of a sudden found that he 's got loads of cousins he did n't even know about . |
| 30 | Well I think that 's a good idea though that he 's got boxes from Marks . |