Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He crosses to the window , wipes the inside of the pane and gazes out . |
| 2 | here 's the cup team … the injury to Marcus Hannaford means Jerry Perrins is called back … he plays on the wing … and with skipper Ian Smith playing for the BaBas … |
| 3 | He is 16 — around the age Roy was when he became a star — and he plays for the Melchester youth team . |
| 4 | STEVE LLOYD , Moseley 's giant Uruguayan-born second row forward , is to be watched by Wales rugby union scout Terry Cobner when he plays for the Barbarians against Leicester on Boxing Day . |
| 5 | He plays for the Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg and is a certainty for Transvaal . |
| 6 | He plays with the quintet in a quite different sense from that in which they play at revolutionary politics ; though , bemused by him , set at odds , their purposes deflected and their fantasies fed and coaxed along , it does n't seem like playing to them . |
| 7 | He plays along the back line and in midfield . |
| 8 | ‘ He is nothing like the gigolos he plays in the movies . |
| 9 | He normally takes great care to keep us informed of the central part he plays in the worlds of affairs and ideas . |
| 10 | Buttoning up his fly ( Sutcliffe 's trousers date back to that era , and look it ) he retreats to the washbasins on the other side of the room . |
| 11 | He retreats along the corridor and passes the three injured , shooting another student in front of the escalators . |
| 12 | It 's funny that he flags at the interests of the party of crime . |
| 13 | I heard the machine that he rubs across the floor start up with that horrendous howl that makes my teeth curl . |
| 14 | Every Friday he lunches in the Glasgow Art Club with about a dozen friends and only displays momentary irritation when he fails to hear an occasional bon mot . |
| 15 | He turns off the engine , comes out of his car , walks round it on to the pavement , then tells us to turn and face the wall . |
| 16 | ( He turns to the TRAGEDIANS . ) |
| 17 | Then he turns to the policeman : ‘ That 's fine , sergeant . |
| 18 | Spenser 's fears about Ireland become most apparent , however , when he turns to the subject of the ‘ Old English ’ there . |
| 19 | But if the England manager deplored the lack of flair in the squad he took to Sweden then it can only be a matter of time before he turns to the Bart Man . |
| 20 | He turns to the writer again : ‘ Abraham Lincoln went on a three-day drunk , and you know what he say when he wake up ? ’ |
| 21 | I was n't trying to advance a theory about religion in general , says Freud , but now I am , and in Future of an Illusion , he turns to the question of religion in general , not just er , teutonic religion , as in Totem and Taboo , but religion in general . |
| 22 | He turns to the others and gives the good news : ‘ We going to need two guards at a time , starting now . |
| 23 | The scenario was that there was this normal , everyday family being filmed in their home at their most private moments and , in one scene , where a young boy is being pressurised into getting married , they all leave the room and he turns to the camera and says something like ‘ I 've got to be careful here . |
| 24 | He turns to the City Pages . |
| 25 | He turns to the kettle and makes the coffee . |
| 26 | He turns on the air-conditioner . |
| 27 | Vic sighs , hits the Off button on the clock , switches on his bedside lamp ( its dimmer control turned low for Marjorie 's sake ) , gets out of bed and paddles through the deep pile of the bedroom carpet to the en suite bathroom , making sure the connecting door is closed before he turns on the light inside . |
| 28 | ‘ The way he turns on the television as soon as he walks into the room drives me nuts , ’ she says . |
| 29 | The magnitude of Crawford 's performance was summed up by Sheridan Morley in The Tatler : ‘ In the end it is Mr Crawford 's evening : he turns in the kind of all-singing all-dancing performance that legends are made of , and the kind that an English actor has n't achieved since Buchanan in the 30s . ’ |
| 30 | He turns in the doorway . |