Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [vb -s] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although compressed into less than 18 months there are certain similarities between the two revolutions , in their tactics as well as their phases , and although it is not explicit there is a remarkable comparison that may be inferred from Devillers ' brilliant essay in which he describes a Vietminh , at the end of 1946 , already losing momentum and because of that , driven to imprudent acts : |
| 2 | The Wimbledon midfield player was severely punished for his oration in ‘ Soccer 's Hard Men ’ , a video in which he describes a host of footballers ' dirty tricks . |
| 3 | Their vision was of a functionally differentiated society in which ‘ the individual is now created by the social organism of which he forms a part ’ and in which a state , founded on democracy tempered by respect for the expert , is required to co-ordinate the social order . |
| 4 | Now Bill , veteran of scores of television and newspaper forecasts , has produced a book in which he opens a treasure-chest of weather fact , fiction and folklore . |
| 5 | He must know not only about the risks he wishes to avoid , or to take , and the price at which he is prepared to transact , but also more about the characteristics of the underlying instrument such as its volatility and the degree to which its price is correlated with the risky prospect against which he seeks a hedge ( or upon which he plans to speculate ) . |
| 6 | We sit upon our bed with a roll of foil , several bars of chocolate and the hardback edition of a Georgia O'Keeffe retrospective ( nicked from Dillons ) upon which he lays a tube and a neat square of foil flattened by his own deft fingers and the gear itself in its cosy half-inch envelope . |
| 7 | The adept begins in the stance known as yoi , and then progresses onwards through a series of solo techniques , in which he executes a set of movements against imaginary opponents . |
| 8 | The farmer provides the building , labour , gas , electricity , bedding , etc. , for which he receives a management fee . |
| 9 | These data allow us to clarify important observations on the Hotteterres made by their contemporary Borjon de Scellery in his Traité de la musette , in which he cites a father and two sons of the Hotteterre family as the ‘ most esteemed ’ makers of woodwind instruments and in particular of musettes and flutes . |
| 10 | It was like complimenting an assassin for the professional way in which he slides a stiletto under one 's ribs and into the heart . |
| 11 | A good example of a pluralist straw man can be found in Jack L. Walker 's attempted broadside , in which he constructs a version of pluralism which patently is unattributable to any individual writer . |
| 12 | His father objected that the police had arrested him unlawfully , because the law lays it down that no-one is allowed to do on Sunday the work by which he earns a living , and the police were therefore not allowed to arrest anybody on a Sunday . |
| 13 | People like Calum Colvin have shaken that up a little , but even he ends up with a picture which he puts a frame around . |
| 14 | ‘ This is to ignore the fact that in the administration of justice in this country , the authority of any judicial pronouncement depends not upon the personal authority of the judge concerned , but upon the capacity in which he gives a decision or expresses an opinion . |
| 15 | Torrance has been working recently on improving his technique on short putts with which he has a problem because of the pendulum action of his broom-handle putter . |
| 16 | Where the holder of a bill has a lien on it arising either from contract or by implication of law , he is deemed to be a holder for value to the extent of the sum for which he has a lien . |
| 17 | WHEN Nick Faldo signs his autograph these days he uses the ‘ l ’ as a flagstick , on which he draws a flag bearing the number 11 . |
| 18 | Also in 1908 audiences could have seen Unemployed and Unemployable in which the central character begins by haranguing a crowd ; he is dragged off by his wife and given a whole range of domestic tasks all of which he makes a mess of ; he accidentally acquires stolen goods and is arrested ; the film ends with this ‘ lounger ’ working at last but in the cells . |
| 19 | this is how much tax I 've paid , this is , I mean if you go on the dole too unless you 've made a note of it there is no record of how much you 've been paid on the dole , they , they give John the what he calls a giro , takes it to the bank and cashes it and there is no , no record of and when he 's been on the dole . |
| 20 | He does n't really want it for anything , but he is n't keen on having what he calls a flock of children on his land . |
| 21 | The Threarah 's rather good at making himself unpleasant when he 's been woken up at ni-Frith for what he considers a piece of trivial nonsense . |
| 22 | And not least among his endowments is the command of a prose style which makes what he writes a pleasure to read . |