Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This exhibition shows that he has other strings to his artistic bow . |
| 2 | He has great potential to be a world champion , and he will be the kind of driver we would like to retain his services through the next possible two , three years , so it 's a longer term situation with him . |
| 3 | Messrs Lee and Lee welcome the prospect of Mr Patten 's appointment : the Democrat on the grounds that ‘ he is not just another appeasing sinologist from the Foreign Office ; the conservative because ‘ he carries more weight than the others mentioned , and he has direct access to No 10 ’ . |
| 4 | As an immediate implication of this we distinguish very sharply between a producer who is the sole source of supply for a particular commodity because he has unique access to a necessary resource and one who is the sole source of supply as a result of his entrepreneurial activities ( which can easily be duplicated by his competitors , if they choose ) . |
| 5 | I think he needs constant trips to the loo grandma |
| 6 | look mum he says horrible things to me . |
| 7 | but until he shows national agreements to them you 'll never get that agreed will ? |
| 8 | In his approach he includes sensitive ear to the parents of players . |
| 9 | ‘ ( 1 ) A person who has in his possession written material which is threatening , abusive or insulting , or a recording of visual images or sounds which are threatening , abusive or insulting , with a view to — ( a ) in the case of written material , its being displayed , published , distributed , broadcast or included in a cable programme service , whether by himself or another , or ( b ) in the case of a recording , its being distributed , shown , played , broadcast or included in a cable programme service , whether by himself or another , is guilty of an offence if he intends racial hatred to be stirred up thereby or , having regard to all the circumstances , racial hatred is likely to be stirred up thereby . ’ |
| 10 | This does not worry him , since he takes political Realism to be a limiting case whose usefulness has less to do with describing the actual conduct of foreign policy than with providing a way of explaining it . |
| 11 | In the novels I am thinking of he attributes certain ideas to certain characters and utters them in the prevailing manner of the novel , while also submitting them to question within it . |
| 12 | He attaches great importance to ‘ the association of ideas ’ and sees it as being most powerfully achieved where the punishment symbolises the offence as far as possible . |
| 13 | Then , gliding slyly over to a nearby telephone , he sends new orders to a quivering goon with the immortal Bond film catchphrase : ‘ Prepare my battle-sub immediately . ’ |
| 14 | I understand he sends regular postcards to his St Benedict 's friends . ’ |
| 15 | If he expects immediate reaction to this suggestion his child is contaminating his adult . |
| 16 | He expects direct payments to be some £250m for 1993 , while a further £250m will go on the pension fund for early leavers . |
| 17 | It is , however , by drawing on his own past performances , from Aldwych farce to Newman Noggs , from Volpone to Vershinin , that he gives real substance to the evening . |
| 18 | He gives equal emphasis to the possibility that such characteristics make the game an ideal vehicle for aggressive confrontations between rival groups of young males . |
| 19 | He does so in writing , and he gives written notice to the bank as required by section 136 of the Law of Property Act 1925 . |
| 20 | On big match days such as today Croke Park becomes his stage , and he gives full range to his many and varied skills . |
| 21 | He gives fresh orders to his nearest cut-off group to redeploy rapidly . |
| 22 | He gives high priority to readability , referring to ‘ the vital aspects of illustration — readability , coherence , and how it relates to the text ’ ( ibid . |
| 23 | In his ‘ Preface ’ to Edwin Muir 's Selected Poems , he gives high praise to a poet whose work is very different from his own . |
| 24 | However , he does not as Tarrow seems to argue , ignore class contradictions within the territorially based proletarian community ; in fact he pays particular attention to the complex class structure of the depressed areas , identifying as crucial within them the role of the rural intelligentsia , the commercial intermediaries and the local clergy . |
| 25 | I have hinted your case to Lord Darnford , but I am concerned to say that he imputes selfish views to me . |
| 26 | Gustave writes this in one of his earliest letters to Louise Colet ; and over a seven-year period ( 1846–53 ) he makes occasional references to the planned autobiography . |
| 27 | Even my dad , he makes sexist remarks to me about my looks . |
| 28 | Others have observed that , for a ‘ positivist ’ , he makes significant concessions to natural law thought . |
| 29 | Nonetheless he brings new ideas to ‘ Haschmemann ’ and ‘ Am Kamin ’ . |
| 30 | He believes perinatal trauma to be a likely contributing factor , because this in theory could produce damage to the right hemisphere . |