Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , below him on the rubble , he made out Yussuf 's motionless body . |
| 2 | There was a vast murmur of duck-talk on the lake as he made out group after group , some in the water and some on the banks , busy and preoccupied with feeding . |
| 3 | The floor plunged at him , the faces at the feast blurring with noise ; he made out Bragad watching him with sharp eyes . |
| 4 | Through his binoculars he made out Belpan 's one patrol boat with a great vee of spray at its bows . |
| 5 | I think he lived out Romford way , but I never had much to do with him . |
| 6 | He plays mostly keyboards these days , so maybe one day . |
| 7 | In this case , he plays down Judas and his followers as " a little help " , and even suggests that some of these followers had joined the ranks not because they believed in their cause , but under false pretences . |
| 8 | It was at this time that he commissioned both Cooper and Sadler in the field , in recognition of their services , an action which was later thought to have been highly irregular . |
| 9 | He laid out lines of the drug in a bedroom for Suzanne , her 19-year-old boyfriend Neil Young and friends Steve Richmond and Graham Longstaff . |
| 10 | Herbert he bring out gun . |
| 11 | Six minutes later Philip Jennings doubled the lead when he doubled up Scott 's through ball . |
| 12 | He ruled out credit controls when he was chancellor of the exchequer — but he also attacked the banks , in his 1990 budget , for their carefree personal lending . |
| 13 | However , he ruled out attempts to formulate foreign policy by majority voting which , as he pointed out , would have been disastrous in the Gulf and which were reinforced by the failed attempts to mediate in Yugoslavia . |
| 14 | Samuel 's argument uses the example of ‘ nation ’ , which he points out historians of the left have shied away from either as a subject of study or as a symbolic category . |
| 15 | If the facilitator is successful , it is because he acts as a traffic cop ; he rephrases the conversation whenever it is necessary ; he clarifies issues ; he points out messages that may be upsetting others , and so on . |
| 16 | They first describe the work of love as a double edged activity with positive and negative effect — purging sin and kindling the heart , clearing the soul and removing anger and sloth , wounding in love and fulfilling with charity , chasing off the devil and extinguishing fear — and then level out to the strongly stressed affirmation which defines the positive potential of the negative statement in chapter one " he hase noght Jhesu Criste , he tynes all he has , and all he es , and all he myght gete " ( 85.19 – 21 ) for he that has " Jhesu " grows through prayer to the fulfilment of human potential : heaven is open to him and he is made a " contemplatif man " . |
| 17 | This might thus serve to bridge the transition between prayer and other forms of activity and also embody a perpetual icon for that prayer and for penitence : The shorter version engages with the Passion story much more starkly to project a powerful realisation of the horror of being cut off from all that Christ is — in the words of The Form of Living " he hase noght Jhesu Criste , he tynes all he has , and all he es , and all he myght gete " ( 1.85.19 – 21 ) . |
| 18 | He passed out top in the Foreign Office entrance exam after Oxford and began work in Whitehall on the European Political Co-operation desk , ironically named given that at that time General de Gaulle was thwarting Britain 's European ambitions . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh … yeees , ’ he agreed when co-star Betty Marsden pointed out the misreading of the misprint . |
| 20 | And he goes well James came and said , he goes ah so Jimmy found him and he and James goes ooh no Alistair found me . |
| 21 | cos he goes about quarter to twelve |
| 22 | He met both Shamir and Levy , reportedly stressing that he had found evidence of " new thinking " in Cairo and Riyadh . |
| 23 | In late 1990 and early 1991 the Gulf crisis was one of the chief concerns of the government 's foreign policy ; it featured in particular in the routine summit between González and President Mitterrand of France , held in Paris on Nov. 13 , and in the March 1991 tour undertaken by Foreign Minister , Fernández Ordóñez , who went to Washington to meet the US Secretary of State , James Baker , and then to Egypt and Israel , where he met both government and Palestinian representatives . |
| 24 | His first visit on Oct. 4-5 , including talks with Saddam Hussain on Oct. 5 , had been preceded by a stop in Amman on Oct. 3 , where he met both King Hussain ( reportedly proposing to the latter the convening of an Arab conference on the Gulf crisis ) , and the PLO leader Yassir Arafat ( who , like Primakov , travelled on to Baghdad ) . |
| 25 | Hastily he whipped off shoes and socks and prepared to paddle . |
| 26 | Adam saw how tired he was ; his eyelids were already half-closed as he fought off sleep . |
| 27 | But before the end of the conversation he realized how vocation pulled Ramsey towards Durham , and talked about ‘ a theological bishop ’ and did not discourage . |
| 28 | In his thriving shop he expected only specialist collectors to be interested but he is surprised and delighted to find that 95% of the customers buy on aesthetic appeal . |
| 29 | While he laughs off comparisons to Lawrence of Arabia , he admits that ‘ to spend 10 years getting the film made must mean it corresponds to something deep inside ’ . |
| 30 | The expert will want to make sure he understands both points of view , and in doing so , he may decide that he should try to persuade one or both of the parties about the other 's position . |