Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , 'e spoke for about an 'our and at the end of it 'e asked for people to come forward and testify that they were saved . |
| 2 | The interviewer should collect the interviewee , not have him sent for from the waiting room . |
| 3 | He will continue to study for his external law degree at the University of London , but does not intend to train as a barrister — an idea that he toyed with for a while . |
| 4 | As a result of this , the Earl of Lauderdale , a friend and admirer of Baxter 's , with the King 's permission , offered him any position he cared for in Scotland , either a church , a bishopric or a university position . |
| 5 | He produced from under his jacket a small paperback book which he waved in the air , furiously . |
| 6 | Mr Wheeler , an engineer who worked for many years in the oil business , is a pleasant , slightly worried-looking man who can not bear the fact that no one seems to realise just what lengths he goes to in order to keep the plant squeaky clean and emission-free . |
| 7 | Girouard mentions that the Duke of Portland sacked any housemaid he met with in the corridors , and that a certain Lord M in Wiltshire never spoke to a servant unless to give an order . |
| 8 | What he sues for in each case is loss caused to him by the use of an unlawful weapon against him — intimidation of another person by unlawful means . ’ |
| 9 | This is the system of signification that he refers to as ‘ metalanguage ’ and for Barthes , semiology is a metalinguistic description of ordinary language . |
| 10 | Elias ' theory of the civilising process has also been described as a history of manners , in which changing patterns of living are documented , and within which what he refers to as ‘ affect ’ becomes increasingly regulated . |
| 11 | During periods of change such as this , what he refers to as ‘ status movements ’ may emerge which attempt , through symbolic rather than instrumental means , to increase or simply maintain the prestige or honour of a particular social group . |
| 12 | This he refers to as ‘ cultural defence ’ . |
| 13 | He argues that societies are organized around what he refers to as certain ‘ axial structures ’ . |
| 14 | The hypothetical experiment which Keynes is undertaking is an examination of the consequences of a fall in the real wage rate brought about through a rise in the general price level , P ( what he refers to as ‘ the price of wage-goods ’ ) in relation to the money wage , W. The initial real wage rate is and the corresponding ‘ existing volume of employment ’ is 4 , . |
| 15 | But he got in in this , you know they moved moved w w you know would |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm infuriated with myself , ’ he gritted from behind clenched teeth , his scowl deepening . |
| 17 | Er , but there again I think it was because the person doing this , was so keen to see the right result , that he read into into |
| 18 | Those are only the qualities he looks for in the people who work for him , though . |
| 19 | Killing two men at his friend Pat Garrett 's wedding , The Kid is turned into a hunted prey , cast aside by those he looks to for affection and Newman becomes a psychotic outsider . |
| 20 | One of the things that he objected to about a tradition of painting that was governed by a scientific , single viewpoint system of perspective was that it gave the spectator an incomplete picture or idea about the subject . |
| 21 | On this , his first solo offerings , the humble Professor demonstrates that he has by no means mellowed . |
| 22 | Yeah and Mike 's seen him like that and mum went round the ward and she made all the beds to help them and all , we had to bribe them to look after him , but was he looked after in the end , on Saturday I said look , I said do n't fucking come over here and tell me my dad 's gon na be turned in a minute I said because a minute is a minute , I said but when you come over here three and a half hours later to my dad that 's like three years , he 's in excruciating agony , he wants to turn him when you tell him you 're gon na turn him |
| 23 | We know that the right hon. Gentleman would add to taxation , for he needs to in order to sustain his promises . |
| 24 | Acknowledging the problems inherent in the learned safety hypothesis , Kalat ( 1977 ) suggested a revision which he referred to as ‘ learned non-correlation ’ . |
| 25 | Innumerable short encounters were jotted down in his diaries , which he referred to as ‘ memorandum books ’ , as well as in the Guide Book . |
| 26 | But he did believe the working class — which he referred to as if it were a single-willed person — would do somewhat unlikely things . |
| 27 | Our builder suggested a lady whom he referred to as ‘ Barney ’ , who lived in a nearby village and had holiday cottages of her own . |
| 28 | For example , in September 1919 , in its account of a meeting of the Board of Guardians , the Bedfordshire Times reported that a member had complained of what he referred to as ‘ an appalling increase of rates ’ . |
| 29 | His plea was well received by his listeners who , if they did not quite accept his characterisation of the present moment as a ‘ cultural war ’ between the advocates of free expression and individuals he referred to as ‘ know-nothings ’ , nonetheless were happy , even relieved , to have something resembling moral high ground from which to defend themselves in the controversy and even take the battle back to the ‘ enemy ’ . |
| 30 | Marx predicted that this group , which he referred to as the petty ( or petit ) bourgeoisie , would be progressively squeezed into the proletariat . |