Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [verb] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the fact that David was expelled in the third form for dissing the gym teacher who confiscated his Uzi and broke his crack-peddling ring , he still feels enough loyalty to the old alma mater not to drag its name through the mud by engaging the lads he fagged for in a ‘ naughty-word ’ style debate . |
| 2 | In Brewster ( 1979 ) 69 Cr App R 375 ( CA ) , an insurance agent was guilty of theft of the premiums because the money had to be handed over to the companies he worked for under the terms of his contract . |
| 3 | His plea was well received by his listeners who , if they did not quite accept his characterisation of the present moment as a ‘ cultural war ’ between the advocates of free expression and individuals he referred to as ‘ know-nothings ’ , nonetheless were happy , even relieved , to have something resembling moral high ground from which to defend themselves in the controversy and even take the battle back to the ‘ enemy ’ . |
| 4 | Those are only the qualities he looks for in the people who work for him , though . |
| 5 | Mr Wheeler , an engineer who worked for many years in the oil business , is a pleasant , slightly worried-looking man who can not bear the fact that no one seems to realise just what lengths he goes to in order to keep the plant squeaky clean and emission-free . |
| 6 | One of the girls he worked with in the office wrote a humorous poem . |
| 7 | ‘ Vinny 's not fit to lace the boots of the players he talks about on the tape . |
| 8 | Technically , the Act does not oblige the person imposing the conditions to specify which of the alternative grounds he relies upon for his authority to do so , although where the event is to be held in the future , the directions given by the chief of police must be in writing . |
| 9 | In the way it lays bare dark emotional rumblings normally concealed beneath the constraints of village life , Went the Day Well ? suggests Cavalcanti had learned as much from the Surrealists he worked with in Paris as from Britain 's documentarists . |