Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well Else read out this bit from a book by Billy Graham , The Secret of 'Appiness it 's called , where 'e says that a man told 'im 'e only took a bath once a week , and Billy Graham told 'im there was something wrong with 'is purity of heart . ’ |
| 2 | Now at the moment every doctor has in his desk a supply of what I call yellow cards , obviously because they 're yellow , which he 's asked to fill in if he thinks that a medicine which he has prescribed may have caused some nasty effect , for example to give the patient headaches , or to make them giddy , or to make them sick , or perhaps even something more serious than that . |
| 3 | But somewhat surprisingly ( given that the representational theory of the mind is supposed to be a theory of thinking , not of how we handle inputs ) he concludes that a psychology of the central systems is beyond our reach : the more global a mental process is the less we are likely to understand about it . |
| 4 | She has stopped Keith from having cold drinking chocolate which he adores because a neighbour said the additives might be making him hyperactive . |
| 5 | She has stopped Keith from having cold drinking chocolate which he adores because a neighbour said that the additives might be making him hyperactive . |
| 6 | And while he accepts that a lack of funds could be a serious obstacle to change , he does not want to be ‘ mesmerised by difficulties ’ . |
| 7 | I 've got a friend of 84 or 85 ; the first thing he wants after a marathon is a drink of beer and a cigar . |
| 8 | He says that a Cavalier appears in the corner , a Shepherd and his dog , hands grip at those who sleep in the bed and a monk walks through the wall ! |
| 9 | He says that a lack of communication between the private sector and voluntary organisations has been an obstacle to the smooth development of community strategy in the UK . |
| 10 | He says that a person could stay at a hotel with his own doctor and nurse cheaper than that . |
| 11 | He does n't seem to be embarrassed by anything , except when you try to provoke him by telling him that surely he must thump his desk once in a while , or that although he says that a record company exists ‘ to guide your artists ’ most of them must hate him at some point . |
| 12 | He says that a pond contains lot 's of wildlife , and is a valuable educational tool . |
| 13 | He says that a woman may have been murdered with the bayonet , which he discovered buried in a wall . |
| 14 | He says that a group of ravers from Bristol caused trouble . |
| 15 | Not exactly lazy — although that is how he describes himself-as a delegator and motivator he had always excelled and now found himself less directly occupied . |
| 16 | In it , he warns that a lack of staff and money may delay action to combat global warming , ozone depletion , the reduction of industrial waste and sewage discharges , and the construction of a nuclear waste depository . |
| 17 | He envisages that a change in outlook may derive from appreciation of the complex event sequences that new techniques have now exposed in the Quaternary ; from appraisal of the classical models of change to accommodate the realization that extreme rapidity of change now has to be considered when evaluating chronological biotal and geomorphological processes ; from adjustment of geomorphology to new knowledge of Quaternary change such as rate of ice sheet growth and decay ; and similar adjustment of biogeography and of palaeoclimatology . |
| 18 | He recalls that a petrol engine is only about 20 per cent efficient ; most of the energy of its fuel appears as heat in its radiator and exhaust . |
| 19 | He underlines Nithard 's insistence on what nowadays might be called line-management : he reveals that a manager 's problem in the Carolingian palace was the maintenance of good order and morale among the often unruly yet indispensable " crowd " of young noblemen who were deployed on a variety of tasks and errands , especially of a military sort . |
| 20 | But he reckons that a company using Advance would save 25% on buying and implementing a shrink-wrapped product itself . |
| 21 | ‘ Story of my life , ’ he growls when a red declines to go into a pocket for the simple reason that he has hit it at the wrong angle . |
| 22 | So he reasons that a foam blown with this natural surfactant could be effortlessly breathed . |
| 23 | Grice does not suggest that this is an exhaustive list — he notes that a maxim such as Be polite is also normally observed — nor that equal weight should be attached to each of the stated maxims . |
| 24 | He notes that a whole with parts of which this was true would be an organic unity in a sense different from his , a sense , however , which he thinks nonsensical . |
| 25 | If he sees the price differing much from 36s. he expects that a change will come before long , and by anticipating it he helps it to come quickly . [ … ] |
| 26 | He prophesies that a study of primordial volumes will open up unheard of horizons . |
| 27 | More particularly , he contends that a company is the result of an exercise of freedom of association and freedom of contract . |
| 28 | An agent looking at a student actor makes a reasonable commercial judgement ; he considers whether a decision to take on an actor will be financially justified . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , he suggests that a kind of valid knowledge can be developed here , based on careful and consistent description rather than on explanation . |
| 30 | He suggests that a woman may be allowed to sit at his feet , rather than preoccupy herself with cooking . |