Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [adv] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the States , says Leigh , they go wild for the lady he affectionately calls his Twiggs . |
| 32 | In such moments of confession he frequently strikes a prophetic note about his future life as a writer . |
| 33 | When Howell picks him up at dawn on a deserted Texan highway he immediately makes his intentions plain by scaring the boy witless . |
| 34 | ‘ But I find it very sad that someone as high up as Mr Pound should castigate a sport he clearly knows nothing about . ’ |
| 35 | It is sad that a man with so many good qualities should have led so many down the wrong path , damaging the sport he obviously loves , but I feel that the Charlie Francis story still has a long way to go . |
| 36 | Shop-owner Bill Cowlam said : ‘ At the moment he just says hello in a very quiet voice . |
| 37 | ‘ In charge of ’ means that once a person takes a vehicle on a road or public place he normally remains in charge of that vehicle until he has taken it off the road or public place again . |
| 38 | He smiled , giving us the impression that — after all the adulation he usually experiences — he might find that something of a relief . |
| 39 | The Thomas Harris referred to was closely associated with the composer , and his signature may be seen as witness to Handel 's will and to its first three codicils ; in the fourth and last codicil he actually becomes a beneficiary . |
| 40 | When God selects individuals for a particular job he also equips them to do it . |
| 41 | Marvell is so much taken with the love he has of nature he even proposes to cut out the names of the trees in their own bark , as opposed to the names of lovers . |
| 42 | At one point he humorously remarks : ‘ Please , we 're trying to rehearse — can you keep your noise down ? ’ |
| 43 | The extract from the file on Tweed you sent with the courier made the point he often stays at top places because he thinks he 's less likely to be noticed . ’ |
| 44 | Unfortunately he predicates his discussion on the contrast between ‘ empiricists ’ and ‘ nativists ’ , a distinction he soon recognises as inadequate . |
| 45 | Peter : What he 's done today is buy himself a little time , his troubles are n't over , Mrs Thatcher still casts her shadow over this conference he still has problems inside and outside the cabinet but he has bought some time . |
| 46 | In Esso Petroleum Co Ltd v Harper 's Garage ( Stourport ) Ltd [ 1968 ] AC 269 Lord Reid said : Whenever a man agrees to do something over a period he thereby puts it wholly or partly out of his power to " exercise any trade or business he pleases " during that period . |
| 47 | He trails after her , making dramatic declarations of a sort he never has the occasion to make to Felicity . |
| 48 | STRIPPED OF the spiritual baggage , philosophical hokum and rune mythology he usually insists on dragging around with him , Julian Cope is revealed here as a rock 'n' roll archivist par excellence . |
| 49 | Arthur admits that , while he is not ill , he has noticed how he has ‘ good days and bad days ’ , probably due as much to the extra medication he now has to take , as the virus itself . |
| 50 | In the process he accidentally crunches the kitten 's tiny , delicate head and it dies . |
| 51 | In the process he endlessly ponders the point at which his culture stops and his nature begins , where — as Shakespeare poses the issue in The Tempest — Prospero ends and Caliban begins . |
| 52 | As the golf director he normally oversees all those negotiations although the contract is ultimately approved by Martinez . |
| 53 | By self-selecting he actually creates the risk of face-loss himself , a fact which is reflected in the lack of assuredness in his utterance . |
| 54 | Having pointed out the peculiarity and arbitrariness of this notion he then assumes that , in other systems , the relation of man to his material environment is visualized differently . |
| 55 | He worked in a number of Michelin-star kitchens in Amsterdam and also trained as a teacher before leaving his native land — knowledge he now puts to good use in local schools . |
| 56 | Hunter was on about Deane not getting away from his marker enough , from corners and stuff he just sits and gets marked instead of moving out to the far post . |
| 57 | Act 1 scene 7. in which he is laying down the reasons to himself for not killing the king he even admits to himself that his ambition is very powerful ‘ vaulting ambition ’ . |
| 58 | Even when people are stamping on his head he still carries that inane smile . |
| 59 | And like when he cle does the water he just changes half of it and you know keeps half in and just wipes the glass , just wipes the glass off . |
| 60 | Somehow , Reg Pybus , who is such a square he even has a mono Walkman , refused to drink with the match only hours away , and so managed to get the team into their kit and out on to the pitch . |