Example sentences of "[pron] he [vb -s] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He told you himself he moves a mattress into the boathouse on such occasions .
2 Even in his mid-seventies , Finniston is showing no sign of flagging in his boundless energy or in the missionary zeal with which he preaches the gospel that a healthy industrial economy is in the best interests of society as a whole .
3 ( E ) The conference nominates his excellency , Ali Mahdi Mohammed , as provisional President of the Somali Republic for a period of two years from the day on which he takes the oath .
4 Although compressed into less than 18 months there are certain similarities between the two revolutions , in their tactics as well as their phases , and although it is not explicit there is a remarkable comparison that may be inferred from Devillers ' brilliant essay in which he describes a Vietminh , at the end of 1946 , already losing momentum and because of that , driven to imprudent acts :
5 The Wimbledon midfield player was severely punished for his oration in ‘ Soccer 's Hard Men ’ , a video in which he describes a host of footballers ' dirty tricks .
6 But when we understand the adjective to be a predicate qualifier , so that the sentence is the counterpart to how did Reg run the engine ? , then it describes a different ( and , in engineering terms , presumably worse ) situation , in which he forces the engine to operate when it is already dry .
7 Most disconcerting , to those who love The Discarded Image , is the apparent cheerfulness with which he abandons the depth and range of his historical imagination in favour of a style of rhetoric which seems more reminiscent of the Belfast police courts .
8 Kelly also has two shows of brand new work on the boards these days : one , of paintings at Blum Helman from 11 November to 2 January , and another at Castelli from 21 November to 19 December in which he abandons the wall in favour of a large piece meant to be looked down upon and circumambulated .
9 There is a passage in Wittgenstein 's Philosophical Investigations in which he compares an answer that may be given to a philosophical question about someone else 's pain with an answer that may be given to a question about the meaning of ‘ It is 5 o'clock on the sun ’ .
10 Although Kirk does not record that he raised any specific objection to this , or that he asked for confirmation that the Cossacks were all Soviet nationals within the terms of allied policy , he nevertheless includes the exchanges about the Cossacks among the points on which he requests the State Department 's views .
11 Their vision was of a functionally differentiated society in which ‘ the individual is now created by the social organism of which he forms a part ’ and in which a state , founded on democracy tempered by respect for the expert , is required to co-ordinate the social order .
12 Now Bill , veteran of scores of television and newspaper forecasts , has produced a book in which he opens a treasure-chest of weather fact , fiction and folklore .
13 Ullman divides the computational problem faced by the visual system into two logically distinct parts , which he calls the correspondence and the interpretation problems .
14 Bell expresses the connection between these as " an axiom of sociolinguistic structure " , which he calls the Style Axiom : Variation on the style dimension within the speech of a single speaker derives from and echoes the variation which exists between speakers on the " social " dimension .
15 Indeed , he believes that a very small section of the population , which he calls the business class , now forms a tightly integrated group which dominates British business .
16 This alternative , which he calls the strategy matrix , essentially requires top-level corporate management to formulate six to eight key strategies which go across the various subsidiary businesses .
17 It is fascinating in this context concerning the spiritual warfare in which we are engaged to notice how he ascribes the work of the Spirit to two juxtaposed concepts : prayer , and the Word of God which he calls the sword of the Spirit .
18 Just four sentences from the prince have been made public — in which he uses the word ‘ love ’ four times .
19 Where rights ( at least in the strong sense in which he uses the term ) are in play , they operate like political trumps to defeat arguments founded on appeals to general social utility which would normally be accepted as a sufficient justification for overriding the wishes of an individual .
20 His patter is now issued on a cassette in which he tells the story of how he was baptised as Christian .
21 He now brings an action in the High Court , in the course of which he gets an order for discovery , B is compelled to disclose the documents which he has that support A's case , and A may be allowed to administer interrogatories to B — questions in writing which B must answer also in writing but upon oath .
22 He must know not only about the risks he wishes to avoid , or to take , and the price at which he is prepared to transact , but also more about the characteristics of the underlying instrument such as its volatility and the degree to which its price is correlated with the risky prospect against which he seeks a hedge ( or upon which he plans to speculate ) .
23 He 'll be selling T-shirts , scrimshaw souvenirs and changing money ( for which he charges no commission ) — all in any one of seven European languages .
24 His speed at getting into position is breath-taking , almost as breathtaking as the power with which he murders the ball .
25 Where the person applying for a Certificate of Judgment is not a party , he must state in writing with particulars the purpose for which he requires the Certificate of Judgment and the capacity in which he applies and must satisfy the district judge that the application may properly be granted .
26 Also from Murray comes the controversial James Beck 's Art Restoration , The Culture , the Business and the Scandal ( April , £16.99 ) in which he reworks the debate the debate over restorations at London 's National Gallery , the Metropolitan , the Louvre , Prado and the Uffizi , as well as the Sistine Chapel .
27 So when the male of such a species approaches a female hanging , large and menacing , on her web , or lurking hidden beside it , he signals to her by twanging the threads at one side in a special and meaningful way which he trusts the female will recognise .
28 We sit upon our bed with a roll of foil , several bars of chocolate and the hardback edition of a Georgia O'Keeffe retrospective ( nicked from Dillons ) upon which he lays a tube and a neat square of foil flattened by his own deft fingers and the gear itself in its cosy half-inch envelope .
29 The adept begins in the stance known as yoi , and then progresses onwards through a series of solo techniques , in which he executes a set of movements against imaginary opponents .
30 Some biographers have commented on the excessive detail in which he considers every part of the physical aspects of imprisonment — the air supply and water and sewage arrangements , bathing , sterilization of verminous clothing , beds , bedding and diet .
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