Example sentences of "account he [verb] of " in BNC.

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1 To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what account he takes of the national interest in terms of the viability of businesses and the retention of jobs in deciding on the exercise of the functions of his Department in respect of Inland Revenue responsibilities .
2 To ask the Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food what account he takes of proposals for public access to the areas concerned when considering set-aside schemes and schemes relating to environmentally sensitive areas .
3 Just as his theoretical awareness of the importance of sense-experience as a basis for science went along with an increasing interest in practical , experimental investigation of the world , so his theoretical advocacy of Epicurean atomism went along with his actual use of it in his own work ; for example , in an account he gave of various optical phenomena produced by the sun .
4 The residential workers found him evasive in the account he gave of his actions and feelings .
5 The account he gave of it was detailed , detached and distinctly unenthusiastic .
6 He simulates the picaresque ingenuousness of the alien , pretending to learn English from the children in order to gain their confidence , and gradually modifying the historical account he gives of himself to meet peoples ' changing conception of him .
7 The French writer Hippolyte Taine , in the not on the whole very friendly account he published of a journey to the Pyrenees in the middle of the last century , tells , all too vividly , an unpleasant story of a fourteenth-century mayor of Bayonne who tried to extend his jurisdiction up-river as far as the tide went , so as to stop Basque smugglers from defrauding him , and who tied a number of local Basque gentry to the arches of a bridge and watched the tide come up and slowly drown them .
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