Example sentences of "he [verb] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let him think that Elinor may go at any minute . |
| 2 | When a king had been ‘ elected ’ , the Church gave him anointing and coronation . |
| 3 | Alongside Hopper , Fonda was a very stable character , loved his wife and wanted for little , except self-fulfilment , which gnawed away at his mind and caused him to drink and trip occasionally on LSD . |
| 4 | She winced , closing her eyes , not wanting to hear what came next , because she could guess , knowing Jamie so well — his envy and hatred of her father , his lifelong ambitions thwarted again and again , driving him to drink and gambling and unreasoning rage . |
| 5 | After Titania 's quatrains — the most artificial verse-form in drama , presupposing as it does that the speaker has four lines already prepared , with rhymes , confident of not being interrupted — Bottom 's prose truly belongs to the world of unromantic everyday appetites : Bottom may have been ‘ translated ’ in shape , but nothing can elevate him to verse and romance — apart , ironically enough , from his role as Pyramus , out of whose Pistol-like doggerel he is ever ready to step in order to explain the play : ‘ She is to enter now , and I am to spy her through the wall . |
| 6 | His research leads him to conclude that group think is characterized by : |
| 7 | It was not a magical experience , enabling him to go without food for the rest of his flight , but it was a meal for the spirit that kept him nourished and firm in his intention until he reached Horeb the mountain of God ( 1 Kings 19:1–8 ) . |
| 8 | He envisaged an idealized model of perfect gases and frictionless cylinders , in contrast to the engineers who had actually been making the improvements to real engines ; but his method allowed him to demonstrate that heat will not flow spontaneously from a cool body to a warm one , and that the efficiency of a heat engine depends on the difference of temperature between the ‘ source ’ and the ‘ sink ’ of heat . |
| 9 | After the terrible night when Lok and Fa have dared to cross to the island in an attempt to rescue the abducted children , Lok 's feelings are described : " there was stuffed inside the bones of his head the white flock of the autumn creepers , their seeds were in his nose , making him yawn and sneeze " ( p. 134 ) . |
| 10 | Harbury asked , remembering the previous time he had visited the flat when Oliver had encouraged him to stay and Rain had encouraged him to go . |
| 11 | Not with him watching and listening . |
| 12 | Of course , he had already used colour in a non-imitative way , but after 1930 ; in part as a result of using paper-cutouts to help with the design of the Barnes mural he realised that colour could have a tangible reality of its own . |
| 13 | Botica 's scintillating running earned him the Man of the Match Award and he ended with a points haul of 18 with seven goals and a try when he swooped and fly-kicked on a wayward Northern pass which had gone to ground 40 yards out . |
| 14 | Since he doubled as surfer and media man , our paths crossed often enough . |
| 15 | then maths and he goes but maths he says you 're half asleep all the time , I mean you 're not doing any work at all . |
| 16 | Hardaker certainly is n't suggesting that academic qualifications should supersede spiritual criteria , but he insists that intellect and leadership are also important attributes in serving God properly . |
| 17 | He argued that consideration had to be given to a child 's quality of life . |
| 18 | He argued that education for understanding can only be regarded as successful to the extent that it makes behavioural outcomes unpredictable . |
| 19 | He argued that enterprise zones should be established in which detailed planning controls would cease to exist , certain legal obligations on employers such as employment protection legislation would no longer apply , various taxes would not be levied and the overall management of zones would be undertaken not by local authorities but by some other agency . |
| 20 | He argued that reference to a male should precede any reference to a woman , again reflecting the order of nature . |
| 21 | He argued that thought does not arise out of abstract logical puzzles but from specific problems which we encounter in practice . |
| 22 | In ways rather similar to Freud he argued that individualism and group differentiation stemmed less from macro processes and largely from individuals and small groups themselves attempting to assert personal identities . |
| 23 | He argued that Realism is based on three foundation stones , all to be found in the writings of Machiavelli . |
| 24 | He argued that agglomeration diseconomies were the prime explanation for the decentralization . |
| 25 | He argued that society is at bottom a system of organization for producing the goods on which people depend for their life . |
| 26 | He argued that aid would betray the Baltic states , and , just as important , would remove the Soviet Union 's incentives to put its house in order . |
| 27 | He argued that access to oil resources could be secured by negotiation with the Russians . |
| 28 | 16 ) he argued that time can have no existence unless things are actually happening , and in his Confessions ( xi . |
| 29 | He argued that time and motion must be more carefully distinguished from one another than they were by Aristotle . |
| 30 | Categorically , he argued that force in Ulster would overthrow parliamentary majorities if necessary and he assured the party 's support in advance with no limitations . |