Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 He plays no budgetary games nor does he tolerate finance people playing games with him .
2 And he plays the menacing scenes that follow over-lightly , winking at his wife , giving his half smile and making quips .
3 When he comes to the destruction of Carthage in 146 he records the contrasting opinions of the Greeks about Rome 's conduct ( 36.9 ) .
4 ( Apart from admiring ‘ Doctor Strangelove ’ , he skips the nuclear dilemmas . )
5 He insists no political favours were promised in return and claims that he has since repaid the debt , half of it in the form of old books and furniture .
6 Christopher Brown , managing director of the City-based Corney & Barrow bar and restaurant chain is quite right when he insists the hearty times of eating and drinking will return , ‘ because people still want to meet and talk ’ .
7 Carl Jung , writing about black Americans in the 1930s , believed that ‘ the inferior man exercises a tremendous pull upon civilized beings who are forced to live with him , because he fascinates the inferior layers of our psyche ’ .
8 He understands the complex relations between the procedures of law and the need to combat terrorism , ’ said Mr Maginnis .
9 He understands the manic rhythms of a city that borders on the irrational , yet still embodies a nervy humanity .
10 Military analysts say President Bush is deluded if he thinks the 30,000 troops will be home by January 20 , when Bill Clinton takes over .
11 As already stated , he receives the first referrals .
12 The customer can use his lien to enforce this ; he can refuse to hand over any goods which are returnable by him , until he receives the part-exchange goods or the part-exchange allowance .
13 From Hobbes , whose Leviathan he describes as ‘ the greatest … masterpiece of political philosophy written in the English language ’ , he inherits the authoritarian aspects of his theory , the outlines of his distinction between state and society , and the rejection of the view that civil association must derive its authority from the inherent justice of some ‘ higher ’ law or a set of fundamental values .
14 He emphasises the actual similarities in the pattern of bargaining despite the differences which exist in the formal structures .
15 Yes , he holds the least votes on committee in Security .
16 Rambo the lamb is now a week old … and he dwarfs the other youngsters around him .
17 He has no legal rights to the property .
18 Now he says he has no immediate plans for exit and has not ruled out a trade sale .
19 EC commissioner Frans Andriessen , the EC 's chief negotiator , has said he has no immediate plans to meet US negotiators but developments could come today after a meeting of EC foreign ministers in Brussels .
20 The truth is that he has no apparent difficulties responding to ‘ Val ’ or ‘ Kilmer ’ .
21 He thinks that Bryan Gould , by contrast , is ‘ very clever and ambitious , but he has no real roots in Britain or its culture . ’
22 In these lines , Brutus is saying that the only way to stop Caesar becoming emperor is to kill him , and although he has no personal grievances against Caesar ( Caesar is kind to him and favours him ) , it would be bad for the people of Rome ( ‘ the general ’ ) if he were to be crowned .
23 Adorno 's recognition of the radical potential of what he called jazz ( see , for example , Adorno 1976 : 33–4 ) could have given him the theoretical space for such an approach ( it certainly means he has no logical grounds for the theoretical closure he operates , only a self-fulfilling pessimism ) ; but he fails to follow his quest into places where he could have found what he sought , and , more damagingly , he excludes the possibility of any other mode of critique than that associated with alienated individualism .
24 Assuming he has no other costs , what percentage profit does the retailer make ?
25 He has no absolute rights over her .
26 Like Tanya , he has no bad feelings towards his employers and says his redundancy was handled well .
27 ‘ And he has no amorous inclinations ?
28 In conclusion , I 'd like to warn Ben that the Plage route at Buoux is n't his project , but one which was undertaken and tried for the first time by Le Menestrel , and that he has no particular rights over it .
29 He has no stern fights with the Shipping Federation now .
30 He has no excessive tendencies , apart from a fascination with Eastern European motorbikes .
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