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

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1	He offers everyone a serious comparison of Keaton and Charlie Chaplin ( with Harold Lloyd and Fatty Arbuckle trivia thrown in for good measure ) , revealing that Keaton was , for him , the true genius on account of his invention and comic daring .
2	He offers us a practical young man who , unprepared for such a challenge , faces it boldly , controlling moments of doubt simply because there is so much to be done that there is no time for introspection .
3	I rarely comment on Irish affairs , not because of lack of interest but because the Irish communities would reject any opinion or suggestion if they considered it a ’ Brit ’ suggestion or opinion , but , in this instance , the circumstances are so hideously distressing that I feel compelled to comment and to ask the Minister whether he thinks it a heavy irony that last Friday 's incident followed successive discoveries of large caches of arms and whether perhaps it was a desperate attempt by the IRA to reassert some degree of authority .
4	and you wonder why you 're losing all your matches cos every time the ball comes to him he ca n't trap it or if he does he kicks it the wrong way
5	He owes me a grand !
6	He owes us a fucking million quid , do n't he ?
7	He has everything a swashbuckling hero needs — except good looks .
8	Still , it makes for some interesting innuendo as he admits he has something the other girls have n't .
9	he needs me a new home
10	He says its a private service .
11	He describes its every blind arched chimney and fluted pilaster .
12	He shows me the clean pink palms of his hands , and he raises his bushy eyebrows .
13	He hands me a different picture .
14	He hands me a brown manila file , and a handwritten invoice which I imagine he is giving to me now while the connection between the reams of faxes and the many noughts , in local shillings , of his invoice is still fresh .
15	He hands me a white envelope .
16	He hands me a folded Guardian so we can work the indoor drop .
17	He buys me a double Jameson 's .
18	In his exchange with Nastasya he reveals himself an underground man who has wandered into a nineteenth-century naturalistic novel , a bohemian Hamlet .
19	‘ But he sees me the other way — he spoke of another photograph — he was telling me that … ’
20	And this way he gets him a good life .
21	In his extraordinary account of his relationship with Mandy Smith he mentions what a wonderful and ‘ giving ’ lover he has always been .
22	" What if he asks me a direct question ? "
23	An expert can now make a final determination about the construction of documents provided he asks himself the right question .
24	He asks what the minimum necessary physical conditions are , what is the minimum amount of design work that a very lazy Creator would have to do , in order to see to it that the universe and , later , elephants and other complex things , would one day come into existence .
25	No finer example of this can be seen than Castle Acre Priory , 1935 , in which the gaunt power of the medieval ruins is starkly silhouetted against the sky , and he permits himself a rare range of tonal contrast .
26	Wanting to keep her for himself , and not wishing to give away her identity to his colleagues , he gives her a male name : ‘ Bob ’ — to the delight of the audience , who then laugh each time he uses the name .
27	He gives her a warm smile .
28	To mark his disapproval of my doing so he gives me the wrong ticket and some change , of which the amount , as far as I can see , bears no relation to any previous transaction between us .
29	‘ Defenders do n't like playing against him because he gives them a rough time but he knows what to expect from me .
30	Bacchus song loves Bacchus and Bacchus loves songs , says Milton , and he gives us a whole stream of classical precedents , Ovid , Anacreon , Pinder , the whole lot to show that a poet naturally will love the good life .