Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb -s] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you have travelled half across the world , with the background of the man you are going to meet gradually being filled in for you , a picture of him inevitably forms in the mind . |
| 2 | It is actually , it makes him feel rather sad erm and also rather funny , and therefore , he rather comes over a rather pathetic creature . |
| 3 | So , for example , he compulsively returns to the idea that history might consist of several totalizations rather than one : |
| 4 | He eventually comes on the line . |
| 5 | He eventually dies in the ambulance , on the way to a hospital that is n't closed . |
| 6 | Well I think we 'll have to re-look at the whole question of village envelopes in certain cases , where it is decided that low cost housing is desirable , and see if in some way , they can encourage the farmer to make land available so that he can make some money which he badly needs at the moment , as agriculture 's going through one of the biggest depressions it 's been through for years . |
| 7 | The poem goes on : Gloucester offers to buy Jean 's riding horse ( palfrey ) but , with heavy irony , Jean demands what he most desires from the earl in payment . |
| 8 | In the Oxford of the second half of the nineteenth century , parochial , preoccupied with spiritual and philosophical problems , the Oxford of Benjamin Jowett , Walter Pater , and Mark Pattison [ qq.v. ] , his interests and experiences must have set him apart ; he rarely figures in the histories and biographies centred on the life of the university . |
| 9 | In fact Arieti 's coverage of the latter is very cursory and he swiftly shifts to a discussion of examples of , to use Pickering 's term , ‘ creative malady ’ ; such as Proust 's asthma and Darwin ‘ s psychosomatic palpitations — examples that are interesting in themselves but largely irrelevant to the creativity/psychosis debate . |
| 10 | Instead , stiff legged , he merely bends at the waist like a man twice his 37 years . |
| 11 | yeah , well he obviously has on an R S two thousand twenty , twenty one |
| 12 | An addict only stops when he personally comes to the conclusion that his addiction is bringing him more trouble and suffering than pleasure . |
| 13 | He only goes to the shops and back on it . |
| 14 | Old Fishfinger has been flicking through More magazine which , of course , he only reads for the fishkeeping tips , and has discovered the questionnaires that they print . |
| 15 | The truth is that he only races as a personal challenge , or for the pure enjoyment of running . |
| 16 | He only comes to the odd party . |
| 17 | In this he perhaps sounds like a member of a Leavisite ‘ reverent-openness-before-life ’ school , but his concept of ostranenie already has a certain edge through being defined in opposition to the habitual . |
| 18 | In the words of one politician , ‘ given that the major public utilities are under constant political attack , it is in the interests of the chairmen to have the minister broadly defending the industry and not letting it be known in the ways the minister has at his disposal that he basically agrees with the critics ’ ( fieldnotes ) . |
| 19 | A commits a tort if , without lawful justification , he intentionally interferes with a contract between B and C , ( a ) by persuading B to break his contract with C , or ( b ) if by some unlawful act he directly or indirectly prevents B from performing his contract . |
| 20 | Endlessly , this pattern repeated endlessly , and the man could walk along and they 'd all be working , he just goes with an assistant to er repair broken threads . |
| 21 | he can be funny but sometimes he just goes over the top . |
| 22 | He does n't work you see — he just sits in an office and tells other people to work . |
| 23 | So he gets in a cab , he 's got nothing , he just gets in a cab and he goes , he 's sitting , sit sitting in the cab and the man goes what 's the matter ? |
| 24 | For me , when man ( or woman ) talks of ‘ God ’ he just gets in the way . |
| 25 | He just shuffles round the house . |
| 26 | and er he saw the , he was with Trigger he says , he says keep calm , drinking calm , were in here my son , right , and er its the bit where he 's leaning on the bar and the bloke lifts up the bar and he just folds like a tonne of bricks sideways |
| 27 | But Geoff , he do n't shout out or anything — he just waits for a bit till they finish their tea and then he shouts out ‘ Enjoy your tea then ’ , and as they look up he pisses a bit more and they go barmy . ’ |
| 28 | Now he just brawls with the bad guys . |
| 29 | I think he 's trying to look all grown up and that , but he do n't really — he just looks like a young kid trying to be grown up . |
| 30 | Nobody had ever seen a baby before , and when the mother saw his little body and his little feet and hands , and his little cunning face , she thought ‘ why he just looks like a little man . ’ |