Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] he [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is he the sort that he actually wants one , or has he bowed to the advisers that he 's got from the War Office and so on who say the soldiers need it ? |
| 2 | When he pulls himself up or corrects his placing or step he beams on the audience as , for example , when he finishes with his back after a pirouette and hastily turns to face them . |
| 3 | Or does he concur with the view of the Minister for Housing and Planning that the homeless are merely the people whom one steps over on the way out of the opera ? |
| 4 | If the answer is ‘ yes ’ , does this mean that they pray every day , that they attend a place of worship , that their morals and/or their life is ruled according to religious precepts — does the respondent think about God all the time , or does he behave in a ‘ godly ’ fashion ? . |
| 5 | He had no fits nor did he suffer from the falling sickness . ’ |
| 6 | Nor did he go to the Rousseau extreme , saying that we 're basically noble savages . |
| 7 | Nor did he agree with the tag that the media had given him , that of anti-hero . |
| 8 | The laissez-faire leader also made suggestions , but was more ‘ standoffish ’ and did not involve himself with the boy 's welfare , nor did he join in the group activities , so that the boys were effectively left to do what they wanted by themselves . |
| 9 | Mr Tim , by the way , does not acknowledge the modern concept of the language laboratory ; nor does he cleave to the antique idea of the library of books ; still less does he believe in separating students of different ability . |
| 10 | But Julian Green does not limit his universe to inner emotional states , nor does he write in an ivory tower . |
| 11 | Gascoigne went up to each player in the dressing-room before the kick-off , roughly shook him , and demanded he die for the club and the cause . |
| 12 | In a remarkably frank interview , Coppell confronted the troubles he faces after eight years at Selhurst Park , and said he agrees with the inevitable consequence should he be unable to pass the biggest test of his career . |
| 13 | I 'll , er , see to it , I mean , I 'll endeavour to see , I mean , well , I 'll try to look after him and see he comes to no harm . ’ |
| 14 | Chief Constable Burrows was outside his club in Friar Street when a fellow-member approached him and suggested he looked into the whereabouts of Philip Drew , an actor who was performing in a play called The Monster at Reading 's Royal Theatre at the time of the Oliver murder . |
| 15 | Sherek recalled how nervous and agitated he seemed at the first reading with the actors — just as he had been when he had first shown the play to Sherek . |
| 16 | The charges were eventually dropped after an investigation , but had he stayed with the Scots Guards his career would inevitably have been wrecked . |
| 17 | A driver is sensitive to minute shifts in the pressures on his hand and in the rhythm of the engine , with an intensity of concentration which when tiring he sustains by an effort of will ; but most of the time he does not ponder alternatives , apply principles , or make decisions , his hands are as though moving of themselves . |
| 18 | How could she be so stupid as to think he believed in the legend of the Kershaw Worm ? |