Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb -s] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a moment before it separates itself from its surroundings I catch a glimpse of its round eyes , beautiful but stupid , taking in the sight of a forty-three-year-old writer wearing shorts and a faded polo shirt , his face somewhat craggier than he sees it in his mind 's eye , his waist a little more solid and his eyes bright with the thoughts he is generating . |
| 2 | I have no quarrel with that , provided he sets them in that order . |
| 3 | ‘ Where goods are sold in market overt , according to the usage of the market , the buyer acquires a good title to the goods , provided he buys them in good faith and without notice of any defect or want of title on the part of the seller . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Where the seller of goods has a voidable title to them , but his title has not been avoided at the time of the sale , the buyer acquires a good title to the goods , provided he buys them in good faith and without notice of the seller 's defect of title . ’ |
| 5 | a shop-assistant has possession of money paid to him by a customer until he puts it in the till . |
| 6 | For if he considers himself in some small way a specialist , not only can he spend a good proportion of his time teaching what he likes and probably , therefore , understands better , but he also has more of a chance of keeping up to date on his chosen subjects , particularly if he has support , as many of the teachers I observed had , from local subject advisers , associations or selective in-service programmes . |
| 7 | A ruler is bound by the good old law ; if he breaks it in any serious way , his subjects can rebel , and by formal process compel him to obey the law . |
| 8 | He knows that if he helps them in time of need , they will reciprocate without being asked . |
| 9 | Well the farmers for the last couple of years have been arguing that they want this green rate devalued er to try and bring it line more with the market rate er and what this would do would er increase our guaranteed prices in this country and in fact on Friday this happened er the green rate was devalued by 60%. er and so I 've done a few calculations er and for the farmers that are listening and er may understand this er if he was selling his grain in November 89 he would be getting about £99 a ton , whilst if he sells it in November this year he 'll be getting £110 a ton . |
| 10 | ‘ While you 're speaking to him , I suggest you ask him if he knows anyone in the building trade who would like to come out here to help you . |
| 11 | If he misdirects himself in coming to his decision , the court can say : ‘ Very well then . |
| 12 | An individual sitting on the board of such an inquiry may satisfy his own conscience if he finds himself in disagreement with his colleagues by exercising his right to attach a minority dissenting view to the formal report if he considers it necessary to do so . |
| 13 | ‘ I said , if he harms you in any way I shall explode and blow his head off , ’ said the Thing . |
| 14 | I have to say though that with the terms on which we 've gone into the European Monetary System , a six per cent fluctuation either way , which as I said means from two seventy seven deutschmarks up to three thirteen ; there 's quite a lot of risk there for an exporter if he prices himself in deutschmarks and he gets it wrong . |
| 15 | Because he has her in the bath with him . ’ |
| 16 | This is much less often commented upon , probably because he mentions it in a rather throwaway fashion , losing it in a section almost entirely devoted to the argument that noblemen should receive the same punishments as people of the lower orders . |
| 17 | If a third person steps in and gives a consideration for the discharge of the debtor , it does not matter whether he does it in meal or in malt , or what proportion the amount given bears to the amount of the debt . |
| 18 | A person doing either of the above infringes the right whether he does it in relation of the whole or a substantial part of the topography . |
| 19 | Heaven knows whether he has it in him to take on the legacy of Melvyn Bragg in the 21st century , but he will give Artrageous ! the hip image a youth-oriented arts programme needs to convey . |
| 20 | Such a word may be useful to a literary man but it throws little light on Green 's intentions except when he uses it in a negative sense ; in one chapter he states a subject was ‘ unpicturesque and consequently not worth an artists attention ’ . |
| 21 | The song writer , the hymn writer reminds us in those tremendous words of that other old hymn , when he says nothing in my hand I bring , simply to your cross I cling . |
| 22 | Thus , when he suffers what in the past he would have regarded as a disaster , he can move now into the transcendent and in a few moments compose himself . |
| 23 | At this point I feel honour bound to remind Mister C that he 's talking to a journalist , that what might be an affectionate insult from his friends will probably piss him off massively when he sees it in print . |
| 24 | Ooh you want to tell her when he goes when he leaves me in here with this door unlocked ! |
| 25 | When he slides them in front of us you can feel the heat rising . |
| 26 | She is told that if she catches sight of him when he visits her in the darkness , he will leave her . |
| 27 | When he puts you in a sheet of plastic . |
| 28 | Why do I need him to stay here when he weakens me in the way an earthquake undermines a city ? |
| 29 | He has worked hard on it , and perhaps he is at his most content when he has something in his game on which to work . |
| 30 | He distinguishes among them , cursorily , as he cites them in order . |