Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He plays several parts in this summer 's Oxford season . |
| 2 | In his diary he records several incidents . |
| 3 | skipped half the stages or you know how do you feel when he 's working on the board and he skips several lines ? |
| 4 | When James begins with the simple statement " The poor young man hesitated and procrastinated " , he begs such questions as : Who was the young man ? |
| 5 | That he displays such politeness is extremely ironic considering Crisp 's and Broadbent 's own rude behaviour , early in the scene , ignoring Anderson while discussing their 'scoring " opportunities off the football field . |
| 6 | This month he offers some suggestions on nipping all of them in the bud . |
| 7 | He drives all sorts of cars . |
| 8 | Make sure he drinks enough fluids , but not too much tea or coffee . |
| 9 | John Smith may of necessity have toured the prawn cocktail circuit of the City but he represents those parts of the UK deeply suspicious of its working . |
| 10 | Adorno has another small category , that of ‘ folklorist modernism ’ , into which he fits such composers as Bartók and Janáĉek . |
| 11 | He thinks all women should look like Page 3 models , so he always comments on my short haircut , clumpy shoes , ‘ man 's ’ coat , etc . |
| 12 | Though Kasdan appears to disapprove of the Joel Silver style of wham-bam slam-bangers , it 's impossible to tell whether he thinks such films have been instrumental in the decline of western civilisation . |
| 13 | He thinks most businesses are over-managed and under-led . |
| 14 | He thinks some states and cities will resort to pump-priming their economies with spending on things like roads , airports and waste-management . |
| 15 | He thinks these files have already been destroyed . ’ |
| 16 | He substantiates these claims with reference to his own language : ‘ it is possible to address someone , or talk about someone , in English without indicating one 's relative social status or attitude etc. , whereas in many languages this is not possible . |
| 17 | An open sale of a vote , such as this , was quite unusual , however , and Buchanan of Balfunning appears to have been particularly unscrupulous , even on Ardkinglas 's own showing , for the latter suggessed that if Buchanan could see a commission for his son , ‘ we have him , if not Montrose has him , to whom he ows many obligations ’ . |
| 18 | That is why he writes such comments as : |
| 19 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |
| 20 | He has many geniuses — that 's not too strong a word to use . |
| 21 | He has many opportunities to personify the government or , strictly speaking , to be presented as its spokesman . |
| 22 | He has many characteristics irritating to Britons , especially in the world of finance — he is an intellectual , a socialist and a polymath who walks the world stage , but is suspected of putting French interests first . |
| 23 | Reputedly Hong Kong 's highest-paid barrister before politics began to consume virtually all his time , he has many fans among other lawyers , who elected him to the Legislative Council in 1985 and 1988 as their profession 's representative . |
| 24 | ’ He has many abilities … ’ |
| 25 | He has many years experience in carpet retail selling . |
| 26 | He has many servants in the world , and the Dark Lord Medoc is one of them . |
| 27 | ‘ He has many gifts , Medoc , and he has at his beck a wardrobe of enchantments . |
| 28 | Talking to a tobacconist I found that he has some women customers and a range of smaller pipes for them to choose from . |
| 29 | He has me fetch the plastic bucket from under the sink , then returns to the caravan with the bigger bits in the bucket saying he has some letters to write . |
| 30 | He is in a better position than others to initiate confrontation and he has some resources at his disposal . |