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 has been no trouble with my two GSD bitches but while out walking , he flies at other dogs . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ He goes for long walks , ’ said Betty mundanely . |
| 12 | He goes through great labours to get rid of it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ! ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He said he lives on baked beans ! |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ He writes in high spirits ’ , prince told Jardine , ‘ and appeared to be thoroughly enjoying this ‘ new era of his existence ’ . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It 's the best thing I 've done , ’ he says of 010 , as he has of other books . |
| 22 | To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what information he has on new initiatives undertaken by car manufacturers as part of his strategy to defeat car crime . |
| 23 | I mean nobody pick him up on that , but I mean , he might mean in real terms with , I do n't think he has in real terms . |
| 24 | So what he says about external objects may be false in spite of being founded on observation . |
| 25 | If Richard Herrnstein ( ’ IQ encounters with the press ’ , 28 April , p 230 ) has been treated as shabbily as he says by American newspapers , that is unforgivable . |
| 26 | He says in other parts of the world and in other parts of Sudan , the charity has been able to resettle refugees by providing land , tools , seeds and rudimentary housing and they can fend for themselves . |
| 27 | But he keeps on spending as much as before , topping up his spending account with cash from the piggy-bank , which he replaces with little bits of paper saying that the spending account owes the piggy-bank money . |
| 28 | ‘ We 're still left with a list of uncertainties , from the exact scope of his fiscal plans , to who he appoints to key positions and how protectionist he will be , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Sonny has a number of different slides he uses for different occasions . |
| 30 | Stories for de Man are , like Rousseau 's parable and Proust 's image , metalingual allegories , and this accounts for the ease with which he passes from specific examples to general rules about language . |