Example sentences of "he [vb -s] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he turns to the warmer |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He points to the three British works in the recording project to demonstrate what variety it has to offer — the ‘ hard black-and-white ’ sound of the Birtwistle , the comparitively florid ‘ flute or clarinet-like writing ’ in the Maxwell Davies Concerto , the ‘ very expansive ’ trumpet part in the Blake Watkins , which is a ‘ wonderfully lyrical work without being sweet or silly in any way . ’ |
| 6 | He goes to the Chinese desk , and takes a sheet of paper out of the Mexican paper-rack . |
| 7 | the bell to get the bus to stop and he goes to the next flaming stop ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But he goes to the holy one 's mosque . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He belongs to the General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) , which has quarrelled with the Socialist Party . |
| 12 | He belongs to the New English Art Club . |
| 13 | He needs to know he belongs to the new family , that he is ‘ accepted in the beloved one ’ ( Eph. 1:6 ) . |
| 14 | We must remember Aldeborough when we read this rather odd poet , for he belongs to the grim little place , and through it to England . |
| 15 | He passes through it every time he rides to the old earth fort on the crest . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 " . |
| 20 | In the passage , he refers to the same combination of righteousness and giving the honour to God : |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In it he refers to the lunar eclipse of 30 October 1091 that he happened to observe in Italy . |
| 23 | Eccleshall appears to be on stronger ground when he looks to the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries for evidence of libertarian Conservatism . |
| 24 | Suppose that before he looks to the legal record he thinks it would be best to decide for the defendant in McLoughlin because it would be cheaper for the community as a whole if prospective victims insure against emotional injury than if drivers insure against causing it . |
| 25 | Among other personal touches , he introduces seafaring imagery on several occasions : Christ is helmsman in psalm 31 , and in psalm 89 he adds to the raging sea of verse 9 a reference to the navy which is very expressive of his Englishness . |
| 26 | The fleapit at the centre of another Rose script , The Smallest Show on Earth ( 1957 , Big Time Operators in US ) , directed by Ealing 's Basil Dearden , is eventually burnt to the ground by its old commissionaire : ‘ It were the only way were n't it ’ , he says to the cooing couple who inherited the place in a town stinking of glue from the local factory , together with staff so lost in the past that they still enjoy looking at Hepworth 's Comin ’ Thro ’ The Rye . |
| 27 | So he says to the oldest one he said just do ah , he said three four kick or something |
| 28 | He tends to me as one would a convalescent child delirious with a terminal but ticklish illness ; he tends to the outermost hazards of my body ( he is so violent and so tender ) and back to a cave of foetal musk , molested by warmth . |
| 29 | His debut album ‘ Brand New Star ’ was released recently on CD in Japan , he tours extensively here , across the water and into Europe and he travels to the Far East for the first time in December . |
| 30 | He responds to the Colossian heresy by spending exactly half his letter reminding the Colossians just how magnificent , supreme and totally adequate for every aspect of life Jesus Christ truly is . |