Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He plays for Western Suburbs against Newcastle in Sunday 's Winfield Cup play-offs . |
| 2 | Bored as he waits for the liquid to boil , eyed admiringly by his pint-sized partner , he plays with wooden spills , dipping them into the solution and passing them through the flame beneath . |
| 3 | But what remains important about Barthes 's substantive work is that he points to cultural phenomena in the everyday realm that are ( or were ) regarded as insignificant — they are , he reveals , laden with meaning and social and political significance . |
| 4 | He points to significant effects on the scale of future property development . |
| 5 | He points to several factors supporting this conclusion : first , the patient was incapable of making a rational decision ; second , in his clinical judgment , further treatment was called for ; and third , the minor harm of proceeding without consent was more than outweighed by the major benefit , in his view , which was gained from his treatment . |
| 6 | He has been no trouble with my two GSD bitches but while out walking , he flies at other dogs . |
| 7 | ‘ After a day he will know the names of everyone on the set and he goes to great lengths to make sure we all enjoy ourselves , organising lunches and so on . |
| 8 | He goes to great lengths to maintain these contacts , telephoning them at regular intervals to find out how things are going , to express a genuine interest in their welfare , to see if he can help in any way . |
| 9 | In fact he goes to great lengths to argue that the most important consequences of educational progress actually require ‘ sensitive judgment ’ using ‘ interpretative reasoning ’ , and that in the arts this means that valid and reliable assessment can only be achieved through what Best calls ‘ inter-subjective agreement ’ . |
| 10 | I do n't know , erm but he sometimes goes abroad with it I think , but he , he goes to different parts of the country and Judith goes with him . |
| 11 | and he 's still got something to do with the union , so what he did , when he goes to these meetings he said to the , ah you bloke at Nissan how about getting us round |
| 12 | For while he goes to some lengths to avoid formulating a question which presupposes the distinction between subject and object , he is frankly concerned to provide an answer ( and hence a question ) which will be compatible with the claim that social changes are overdetermined by the complex whole , and which will therefore embody a particular view of the production of knowledge . |
| 13 | I always try and go with him when he goes to medical conferences — now we hardly ever take work away from home if it means we ca n't both go . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ He goes for long walks , ’ said Betty mundanely . |
| 15 | For he goes at 80 miles per hour on the motorways . |
| 16 | He goes through great labours to get rid of it . |
| 17 | He sits on 1,299 points , only 300 behind his Russian rival Andrei Mazunov who is No 50 . |
| 18 | For secondly he sits through many lunches , discussing life and love and never mentioning football . |
| 19 | He makes it repeatedly clear that he addresses himself to the Greeks who have little knowledge of Roman institutions ; but on the other hand he refers to Roman readers ( 6.5 1 .3–8 ) and is quite obviously looking at them over his shoulder . |
| 20 | He thinks of previous reviews , of the drums beating , of the waving standards , of his generals covered with gold lace and saluting him with their swords , and of his guard shouting , ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ |
| 21 | As he grows older he thinks about fewer things — he is now mainly occupied with the Common Market , the cold war and the Atlantic Alliance . |
| 22 | ‘ He can be violent , I admit , ’ Mr Browning said , ‘ but he is not himself when he launches into these diatribes and you must remember that , Wilson . ’ |
| 23 | Neil , Neil now says , that when he meets a girl , he , he waits to see if she 's got any characteristics in common with the dreadful Vicky , the girl that he eventually fetch her much deserved slosh on the chops and was pulled into Ipswich Magistrates Court , you know , oh I should n't laugh , but erm , he says he looks for those characteristics , and the moment he sees that the girl is going to be this sort of neurotic , excitable , hysterical creature he walks away . |
| 24 | On the other hand , for a task such as fault diagnosis he will be thinking about it in various structured ways which he can reveal by talking about it and exploring verbally why he looks at particular indications or takes particular actions . |
| 25 | This ghost , in the absence of a head , carries a huge flaming pumpkin to light his way as he tears after late-night travellers at break-neck speed to see whether they have his head secreted in their luggage . |
| 26 | Oh , sure , he quivers on slippery poles as tall as the moon is high , and lopes nude down tunnels while alarm-clocks sound , etc — but there are no worrying resonances . |
| 27 | He said he lives on baked beans ! |
| 28 | A man of intriguing contradictions , he espouses Ivy League courtesy yet thinks nothing of hiring private investigators to snoop on his former tactician ; he adheres to Corinthian values yet his syndicate is heavily sponsored ; he professes the scientific and analytical approach yet can be impulsive and petulant in his decision-making . |
| 29 | ‘ He writes in high spirits ’ , prince told Jardine , ‘ and appeared to be thoroughly enjoying this ‘ new era of his existence ’ . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It 's the best thing I 've done , ’ he says of 010 , as he has of other books . |