Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has such great familiarity with the keyboard that when it is hidden for him by a cloth spread over it , he plays on this cloth with the same speed and the same precision . |
| 2 | A player joining a new club during the close season or after the season starts will have to wait 30 days if joining a club two leagues higher or lower before he plays for that club in a Courage league game or 120 days if joining a club on the same level or one league higher or lower before he plays for that in a league game ; he waits 180 days if he is not a British passport holder . |
| 3 | And as students of the star signs will verify , the cuspate divisions help explain his ability to carve the characters he plays into different personality fragments to give them added depth . |
| 4 | Razumikhin himself may or may not have come from the country , but he is certainly a member of the floating , unbelonging population of students and ex-students , and he records in simple puzzlement that Raskolnikov has been growing increasingly moody and suspicious and introverted ; ‘ he has no time for anything , people are always in his way , and yet he lies about and does nothing ’ — a confirming echo of Raskolnikov on his bed telling Nastasya the maid that he is working , by which he means thinking . |
| 5 | And so he drifts towards vanishing point : ‘ One may argue about everything endlessly , but from me nothing has come but negation , with no magnanimity and no force . |
| 6 | The point is important for , when he turns to personal identity , he insists on a distinction between two ideas which ‘ the ordinary way of speaking ’ runs together : the idea of ‘ man ’ , and the idea of ‘ person ’ . |
| 7 | He points to increased life-expectancy and reduced levels of infant mortality during the pesticide age , and adds that " occasional slight over-exposure is not necessarily going to harm anyone " . |
| 8 | And he goes to that beer up at er Cross Brampt Chase |
| 9 | ‘ And 10 years when he goes to senior school , 20 years maybe , when he is getting married . |
| 10 | He goes to this drug unit and helps at the library . |
| 11 | Things are pretty bad in Britain , Howard soon discovers , as he goes about questioning government officials . |
| 12 | And here I might remark that the chief point that strikes the observer as he goes through this department is the predominance of the bogie — in fact , there is very little else . |
| 13 | If the patient 's spasticity increases as he goes through this sequence , the task is too difficult . |
| 14 | He capitalizes on this discovery by observing that certain editions of the English Primers from C.1530 onwards also contain Savonarola 's soliloquy on Psalm 1 , ‘ Infelix ego , thus supplying Byrd ( directly or indirectly ) both with his words and with an English ambience to an ostensibly purely foreign text that the composer exploited in his chosen manner of setting . |
| 15 | He sits on some plastic institutional sofa . |
| 16 | Born in 1905 , and publishing fiction in the 1930s , he belongs to another age . |
| 17 | He insists on personal attention every time , no matter how trivial the issue . |
| 18 | Although Gibbons has not said whether he agrees with that analysis , he has talked about ‘ a rotation ’ in which new programmes replace older initiatives . |
| 19 | He agrees with renowned biologist Sir Alister Hardy that there is evidence of ‘ a general subconscious shaming of form and behaviour patterns — a sort of psychic blueprint . ’ |
| 20 | He laughs at this scenario but it carries the ring of truth . |
| 21 | This intimate connection between the metaphysics of death and the politics of life is precisely what Nizan has in mind when he refers to revolutionary literature as " the modern form of tragedy " . |
| 22 | He refers to latent inhibition training as producing a CS-US association , the US being described as consisting of ‘ no event ’ ( see also Hall et al . |
| 23 | The narrator may not wholly be in jest when he refers to sexual intercourse with a certain girl , 17 or thereabouts , as ‘ the ultimate indecorum ’ , and rereaders of the novel are likely to be mindful of the survival here of an old England lived in by people like the middle-aged T. S. Eliot , exponents of a disgusted chastity . |
| 24 | For example , he refers to Dozmary Pool as being perpetually drained by piskies with leaking shells . |
| 25 | He refers to this list as his ‘ Environment Initiative ’ . |
| 26 | Terrific ! ’ he cries with touching enthusiasm , placing his reading glasses on that craggy face and peering appreciatively at the Churchill Crown . |
| 27 | He looks like lost property now . |
| 28 | Pat 's all right , look at him , he looks like some sort of Irish hero , and he 's writing yards of poetry . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ He looks in splendid condition . |
| 30 | Tangible links are where SBUs have buyers , distribution channels , technology or competitors in common ( Porter has three categories , but it seems that competitor interrelationships are just as much a tangible link as those he specifies under that heading ) . |