Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he plays games to while away the tedious time , thought Cadfael , he plays them by noble rules , even those he makes up as he goes . |
| 2 | I paid fi fifteen bleeding quid for that and I sai cos this year , I did n't know he 'd done this cos he sits it like that |
| 3 | And he irritates me by repeating things over and over again . ’ |
| 4 | Because Nick is ju erm is young and because he associates him with all these dangerous ideas , in genetic engineering and so on , he feels threatened by him . |
| 5 | Although agreeing that this approach raises value issues ( his first question ) , he thinks it of limited use in generating a range of curriculum alternatives ( second question ) , that it ignores the effects of choosing particular courses of action ( third question ) , and does not facilitate an examination of teacher 's common sense beliefs and opinions ( fourth question ) . |
| 6 | Although he may not agree with what I have said , and what I am about to say , he should at least extend to all of us the courtesy of sitting quietly in his seat , especially if he joins us at such a late time . |
| 7 | As for the case made against the versions in the Classic Anthology — that by using rhyme they align themselves with the closed poetry of print and not with the open poetry of the speaking breath — the obvious retort is that , although in these poems Pound often rhymes , he writes them in free verse , and in a free verse where the syllables are weighed , and the varying pace controlled , as scrupulously as in anything else he has written . |
| 8 | He covers it with both hands . |
| 9 | When the staff at Bloomfield criticize the Profitboss for cancelling a visit three times running , he accepts it as constructive advice . |
| 10 | If you want children now , and he wants them in five years , or you want two and he wants six , you can probably reach a compromise . |
| 11 | He does n't see us a mass of seventy odd thousand people in Harlow today , he sees you as an individual and he loves us in that same way . |
| 12 | Here , when Jacob meets his own brother , he meets him with all the courtly ceremony with which petty vassal princes used to greet their Pharaoh . |
| 13 | erm And he describes them in these terms because of course this is how he sees them from different angles while rounding a series of bends on the road , so that in fact he describes the movement which his senses perceive , not the solid immobility to which his intellect testifies . |
| 14 | Polo is a team game , hunting is a gregarious activity , and he uses it as such . |
| 15 | He kills it eventually , he shoots it with this like hypodermic pistol to try to put it to sleep and it just explodes ! |
| 16 | Fif always seems a little surly with me , because he blames me for some trouble he had on another world . |
| 17 | Marry , so there have been diverse good plots devised and wise counsels cast already about reformation of that realm , but they say it is the fatal destiny of that land that no purposes whatsoever are meant for her good will prosper or take good effect , which whether it proceed from the very genius of the soil , or the influence of the stars , or that Almighty God hath not yet appointed the time of her reformation , or that He reserveth her in this unquiet state still , for some secret scourge which shall by her come unto England , it is hard to be known but yet much to be feared . |
| 18 | Lepine makes his way down to the ground-floor cafeteria where the nursing student Barbara Maria Kleuznick is standing by the cash and service area , and he kills her with two shots . |
| 19 | Next day we will be visiting John Beckman 's Applenotch herd at Minster , Ohio , and international judge Lauren Elysass will be our host in the afternoon when he shows us around Quiet Cove Farms . |
| 20 | He kisses her on both cheeks . |
| 21 | They 're not kissing each other , he goes like that , he put his arm round the other man and he kisses him like that . |
| 22 | ‘ Where goods are sold in market overt , according to the usage of the market , the buyer acquires a good title to the goods , provided he buys them in good faith and without notice of any defect or want of title on the part of the seller . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Where the seller of goods has a voidable title to them , but his title has not been avoided at the time of the sale , the buyer acquires a good title to the goods , provided he buys them in good faith and without notice of the seller 's defect of title . ’ |
| 24 | He introduces me to one , a man called Graham . |
| 25 | He sees them as little jokes , the same way he sees Miro . |
| 26 | erm And he describes them in these terms because of course this is how he sees them from different angles while rounding a series of bends on the road , so that in fact he describes the movement which his senses perceive , not the solid immobility to which his intellect testifies . |
| 27 | I think on balance I mi I my advice is that we do nothing , just wait and see if whether he contacts you at all . |
| 28 | ‘ He gets us into this mess , then legs it at the first sniff of trouble ! ’ |
| 29 | So he gets it at four quid but |
| 30 | He reduces it to this petty party political level and then he makes excuses for all the lowest-performing local authorities , which are Labour-controlled , and resists any idea that we should address the teaching methods that have so badly let down children in Newham , Bradford and all the other areas in the bottom 20 , almost all of which are Labour controlled . |