Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He plays on the right wing and has pace as well as skill . |
| 2 | He plays for the Whitehaven Tennis Club and is involved in their purchase of new tennis courts . |
| 3 | RORY Underwood makes his last appearance of the season at Twickenham today when he plays for the Royal Air Force against the Army in the crucial final match of this year 's Inter Service tournament . |
| 4 | ‘ Limpar could play for Arsenal again the way he plays for the national team if only Graham had more faith in him . |
| 5 | ALAN LEONARD aims to add another string to his bow when he plays in the Irish National Pairs championship finals in Blackrock , County Dublin next weekend . |
| 6 | But now he 's retired I 've heard that , when he plays in the odd charity match , he has a go now . |
| 7 | show exactly the worth he discerns in the Trojan conflict . |
| 8 | Macaulay gets on the wrong plane and ends up in the Big Apple where he books into the palatial Plaza Hotel , much to the suspicion of various flunkies including a camp Tim Curry . |
| 9 | Then he turns towards the wizened , worn-out figure of the 87-year-old woman sitting beside him and says : ‘ He is doing all right , there seems to be some response . |
| 10 | He turns off the main drag . |
| 11 | Perhaps I could be Eric 's stunt man , standing in when he turns on the flash dangerous stuff that terrifies the defenders in his wake and makes them have a go like David Burrows did . |
| 12 | When man 's lifestyle is more natural , basic and strenuous , he glories in the ornate . |
| 13 | As for application portability between the CMOS and RISC versions , he points to the Integrated Language Environment , ILE , that was released as part of OS/400 version 2 release 3 . |
| 14 | Rather he points to the theoretical paradox involved , namely that the human sciences ' very emphasis on historicity as a mode of being was equally applicable to themselves as forms of knowledge , and inevitably destroyed any attempt to formulate universal laws comparable to those of the natural sciences . |
| 15 | If he points to the empty box then it is probably fair to regard this as deliberate misinforming , as the ‘ implanting ’ of a false belief in another 's mind . |
| 16 | He points at the official entrance to a snake 's residence . |
| 17 | He goes to the Chinese desk , and takes a sheet of paper out of the Mexican paper-rack . |
| 18 | In ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ he goes to the holy man with a document which he gives him to read , and which he does read , and which Stavrogin next proposes to publish . |
| 19 | But he goes to the holy one 's mosque . ’ |
| 20 | A young wife may assume that her husband will come shopping with her and he may take it for granted that she will stay at home while he goes to the local football match , or plays golf with the boys . |
| 21 | But here 's Rozario Gemmell Black Pearce is up in support but he goes for the long ball in and Hill met it first . |
| 22 | and he goes off the big city ma ma , like this and he 's got a fucking flying helmet and a flying bucket |
| 23 | When items are faulty , not delivered on time , or more rarely where Ian has by his own fault succeeded in botching an order , then he goes on the defensive . |
| 24 | A Man Utd fan dies and goes to heaven but before he goes through the pearly gates he has to pass a test . |
| 25 | He goes into the front bedroom and tells where everything 's going to go . |
| 26 | And he goes into the non-title contest revealing : ‘ I do n't bother watching tapes of my opponents any more . |
| 27 | The Wales Under- 19 cap seems certain to receive a minimum three-month ban when he goes before the Welsh Rugby Union next month . |
| 28 | … he goes by the carved shafts at cross-roads , pours oil on them from his flask , falls on his knees , makes an obeisance , and only then moves on . |
| 29 | For the horologist the nominal essence of the clock is an idea of its real essence ; in this he differs from the gazing countryman , to whom the nominal essence is simply some combination of various observable features . |
| 30 | He takes his time strolling over , and when he gets here he sits at the far end of the bench like he does n't know me . |