Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When he goes on the one day in two years that something went wrong , that shows he 's doing a good job . ’ |
| 32 | A Man Utd fan dies and goes to heaven but before he goes through the pearly gates he has to pass a test . |
| 33 | He goes into the front bedroom and tells where everything 's going to go . |
| 34 | And he goes into the non-title contest revealing : ‘ I do n't bother watching tapes of my opponents any more . |
| 35 | The Wales Under- 19 cap seems certain to receive a minimum three-month ban when he goes before the Welsh Rugby Union next month . |
| 36 | … 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | He sits in the first pew he comes to and leers at the door every twenty seconds with the frowsiest of sighs . |
| 40 | He belongs to the General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) , which has quarrelled with the Socialist Party . |
| 41 | He belongs to the New English Art Club . |
| 42 | He needs to know he belongs to the new family , that he is ‘ accepted in the beloved one ’ ( Eph. 1:6 ) . |
| 43 | We must remember Aldeborough when we read this rather odd poet , for he belongs to the grim little place , and through it to England . |
| 44 | Your own son needs to be encouraged to behave in a mature way , while your stepson has to be reassured that he belongs in the new family . |
| 45 | While retaining a determinative role for the former , he insists on the relative autonomy of the latter : these have their own modes of existence , their own inertia , their own time-scales , such that we have to speak of a ‘ necessary reciprocity ’ between economic/social and cultural/ideological levels . |
| 46 | However , he insists on the pressing need for government to improve social welfare provision . |
| 47 | As a batsman only , he averages in the mid-40's at Test level and just 20 when doing both jobs . |
| 48 | In a remarkably frank interview , Coppell confronted the troubles he faces after eight years at Selhurst Park , and said he agrees with the inevitable consequence should he be unable to pass the biggest test of his career . |
| 49 | Oh that 's not to be , Sri Lanka are a hundred and thirty-eight for four and here 's Lawrence to pitched up and he drives outside the off stump , the ball goes through to Russell , low again , beaten back at the pace rehearses a shot outside the off stump , he was trying to hit it somewhere through extra cover . |
| 50 | He has one rig in our room , another one in dad 's car and a third in the big truck he drives for the frozen meat company . |
| 51 | He passes through it every time he rides to the old earth fort on the crest . |
| 52 | When the Theogonist accompanies the Empire army into battle he rides on the mobile War Altar of Sigmar , a huge chariot which carries the sacred altar surmounted by a huge statue of a griffon . |
| 53 | PHILLIP McCallen will make his first Irish road race appearance of the season outside the North West 200 and Ulster Grand Prix when he rides in the Loughshinny Club 's meeting at Killalane near Skerries on Saturday and Sunday . |
| 54 | MB 's is wearing clothes that do not fit in the first example eg. This time he refers to the good opinions that people have of him as new clothes and killing the king would be like throwing away hardly worn clothes . |
| 55 | He refers to the lithographed drawings as ‘ engravings ’ , and he used many short lines like an engraver scratching on copper ; pioneers are often conservative , and it was left to Edward Lear in his superb volume on parrots ( 1832 ) to exploit lithography , using bold flowing lines with his crayon on the stone . |
| 56 | Tillich recognizes the former point , when he refers to the mystical approach to nature , which is to be found in the works of St Francis of Assisi , Protestant mystics and German Romantics , and states that they illustrate an attitude almost indistinguishable from the principle of identity . |
| 57 | Recalling the emergence in the mid-1950s of the " New Movement " in educational administration in the United States and Canada , he refers to the intense romance with theory , " Sceptical practitioners were assured in the oft-quoted words of Dewey … that " theory is in the end the most practical of all things " . |
| 58 | In the passage , he refers to the same combination of righteousness and giving the honour to God : |
| 59 | Just a brief response to a small part of Iain MacLaren 's letter , where he refers to the Royal Navy abandoning hammocks not long after the Second World War . |
| 60 | In it he refers to the lunar eclipse of 30 October 1091 that he happened to observe in Italy . |