Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [prep] the [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he turns to the warmer |
| 2 | ‘ He goes for the older woman ! ’ |
| 3 | I find Lubin 's fingerwork in faster movements absolutely sparkling ; and the slightly more flowing tempi he adopts in the slower movements are more to my taste . |
| 4 | With rapture and relief he elides with the larger unit , the glowing mass . |
| 5 | In recommending what Hilton calls " medeled liyf " to his noble lord , he calls on the earlier tradition of awareness of a fundamental harmony between these two conditions — both crucial to temporal life as exemplified in the Incarnation . |
| 6 | He specialises in the older , rare varieties of apple : Ashmead 's Kernel , Blenheim Orange , Lord Lambourne , Kidd 's Orange , Idared , George Cave and Worcester Pearmain . |
| 7 | Layton appreciates in Leonard the patrician Jew aspects that he finds so ridiculous in others ; Leonard , the anti-establishment ( and anti-everything else ! ) that he finds in the older man . |
| 8 | He tells of the Elder Scipio 's tears on appreciating the humiliations to which the royal ladies were exposed after his capture of Carthago Nova ( 10.18.13 ) . |
| 9 | Now he 's become sixty five so as you remember he qualifies for the larger age allowances , he qualifies for the larger married couples allowance , so his total allowances are of course considerably increased by the fifteen hundred pounds . |
| 10 | Now he 's become sixty five so as you remember he qualifies for the larger age allowances , he qualifies for the larger married couples allowance , so his total allowances are of course considerably increased by the fifteen hundred pounds . |
| 11 | Rather forbiddingly he saunters along the lower rink , past the clumps of families , the young mothers , the babies ' cries . |
| 12 | One must mind one 's manners ( and one 's metaphors — tarring with brushes , for instance ! ) when venturing on to the territory that Pound opens up with his reflections on the ethnic mix of the American population , and the distinction that he makes between the older stock ( Eliots and Pounds ) and the relative late-come immigrants ( Williams 's stock on both sides ) . |
| 13 | This signals clearly that the dynamic of singular love is operative when everyday reality is transfigured from speech to song and the contemplative feels the ordinary demands of the self stilled as he awakes to the wider reality : " may say : " " I slepe and my hert wakes " " " ( 8.106.51 – 2 ) . |
| 14 | And when he comes to the richer and more respectable inmates of the borough who can veil their defects behind money , he remains sardonic , and sees them as poor people who have not been found out . |