Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb -s] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a somewhat artificial rule , a servant who receives a thing from his master for the master 's use is deemed not to be in possession of it , though the contrary is true where he receives it from a stranger for the master 's use . |
| 2 | If he proposes to say something new , I hope that , as the guardian of the interests of all parts of the House , you Mr. Speaker , will make representations to try to make sure that he does it in the House rather than just making a speech or holding a press conference , even if it is in Wales . |
| 3 | ‘ Shut the window , please ’ is said in a situation where the speaker rather expects the hearer to act so as to fulfil a certain sort of wish of his , if he indicates that he has it by an imperative sentence . |
| 4 | Does not the Prime Minister think that he owes it to the country to say exactly which other taxes he would put up to pay for his bribe ? |
| 5 | He worries that the children would be upset when they saw it , so he rubs it off the wall . |
| 6 | And he likes it in a certain place and nobody must touch it . |
| 7 | Unless he 's got a monthly account and he keeps it in a book ! |
| 8 | He holds it in his mouth , he picks out a match and he strikes it on the box . |
| 9 | There 's this little bent old man with a shopping trolley thing and he bashes it into the back of my legs . |
| 10 | Patrick has plenty to say on such subjects , and he says it in the lordly way which does much to furnish the book with its presiding idiom . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , that 's the Eiffel Tower , ’ and he says it in the same tone of voice as if you had shown him a portrait of Grandpa , and he had said : ‘ So that 's your grandfather I 've heard so much about . |
| 12 | And of course he goes in and the horse drops in the far side of the wee barn , and er Old goes in with his dram and he dips it into the horse trough you ken , and he turns you ken with his regimental , |
| 13 | Typical James , thought Cameron , as he handed back the flask and looked at his friend 's flushed face : we are plotting to save our lives and he turns it into a holiday . |
| 14 | His approach , in its essentials , was formed by the early 1930s , and he extends it during the 1940s only in the direction of even greater pessimism : cultural ‘ totalitarianism ’ becomes absolute . |
| 15 | I says , ‘ It 's a 7-iron , ’ thinking , ‘ This is where we came in ! ’ , and he hits it through the back of the green . |
| 16 | Erm if we see you know , if we see somebody walking down a walkway , and he 's got a stereo in his arm , arms should I say , and he puts it into a car then obviously it a it arouses our suspicion , we 'll take a quick note of the car 's registration number , and we 'll pass the relevant information through to Police Station . |
| 17 | Perhaps the book of lamentation is not the book you normally turn to , to find words of encouragement , but there are tremendous encouragements to be found in it , listen what the profits says there , in the third chapter , he says this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind , therefore I have hope , the lords loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassion 's never fail and here Jesus is demonstrating that , he 's compassion 's never fail , he 's loving kindnesses they never cease , here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man but as we said the other week the , the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then , its not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine , what he did for that man on the cross he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us the incident may of happened nineteen hundred years ago , but there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there may I , though via us he wash all my sins away , and that verse from William Cowper 's hymn , it takes up that great historical event , that tremendous happening in that man 's life and he links it with a present and it applies it to you and to me and says this can be our experience as well . |
| 18 | Sometimes he walking round with his marking book and he holds it at an angle you know so you can see all the answers . |
| 19 | a shop-assistant has possession of money paid to him by a customer until he puts it in the till . |
| 20 | If he refers it to the Court of Appeal , Courtney may well spend a proper period in jail . |
| 21 | Except in a case to which Ord 11 , r 4(2) applies , the plaintiff is entitled to have the accepted sum paid out to him without any order of the court , if he accepts it within the time limited by the rule ( Ord 11 , r 4(1) ) . |
| 22 | It 'll be interesting to see if he makes it into the team . |
| 23 | On the other hand , if he makes it as an international tighthead , that line-out capability will prove a handsome bonus as well as his ballast in a Scottish scrummage which has struggled of late . |
| 24 | Adorno , we have seen , acknowledges this specificity — indeed , for him it explains the ( unfulfilled ) potential of jazz and the hangovers of ‘ real ’ creativity in some Tin Pan Alley songs ; but he subsumes it into a theory of ‘ false individualization ’ , designed , in his view , to disguise mass cultural production as ‘ art ’ . |
| 25 | The backbone of his work is the new recitative but he uses it with a power quite beyond Peri 's so that it is not merely ‘ expressive ’ but when necessary , as in Orfeo 's lament in Act II , heart-breaking . |
| 26 | What he has done is describe certain linguistic features of the text which distinguish it from other texts ( he refers to Yeats 's ‘ Phoenix ’ and Tennyson 's , ‘ Morte d'Arthur ’ , as well as instances of non-literary usage ) , and which look as if they may be of some literary significance ; but he leaves it to the literary specialist to determine what the nature of that literary significance is . |
| 27 | Stephen has gone through confession , and is , he declares , ‘ Ready to forge that language ’ , but he declares it in a language that will not yet take Joyce out of desperation . |
| 28 | Unless he lays it behind the garage . |
| 29 | Section 11(2) states : [ i ] t is immaterial … that the public access to a building is limited to a particular period or particular occasion , but where anything removed from a building or its grounds is there otherwise than as forming part of , or being on loan for exhibition with , a collection intended for permanent exhibition to the public , the person removing it does not thereby commit an offence under this section unless he removes it on a day when the public have access to the building as mentioned in sub-section ( 1 ) above . |
| 30 | But the reader gains as well , because he sees it from a different angle . |