Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what revenue he expects from the proceeds of privatisation for the period of the public expenditure survey . |
| 2 | K. Barrett 's book , Luke the Historian in Recent Study is the weight he gives to the Word as the prime agency through which the Spirit extends the good news of Christ . |
| 3 | Certainly things went wrong when he was Chancellor , but none of it was his fault he explains in THE VIEW FROM NO. 11 ( Bantam Press , Pounds 20 ) . |
| 4 | When an accomplished actor like ( bridegroom 's name ) realizes he is going to have a speaking part in the wedding ceremony he jumps at the opportunity . |
| 5 | Arieti , an expert on both creativity and schizophrenia — and therefore the most qualified among these contemporary psychiatric writers to comment — is equally disappointing in the light he throws on the issue . |
| 6 | The document is aimed at stimulating international solidarity , not only with regard to the effects of the refugee crisis , but above all tot he causes of the tragedy . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , during Antony 's soliloquy at the end of the scene he refers to the murderers as ‘ butchers ’ , and ‘ bloody men . ’ |
| 8 | No wonder he sits in the chair and does nothing . |
| 9 | It 's just that he seems so caring … in the work he does with the handicapped … ’ |
| 10 | He was Raven Maize , a mysterious man with ‘ Together Forever ’ , a club hit in '89 , and far more soulful than the pristine work he offers at the moment : ‘ In those days I could record for nothing . |
| 11 | Indeed , he thinks that whereas the master fails to gain a proper sense of himself from the slave , because the slave merely carries out his ( the master 's ) will , the slave does gain a certain degree of self-consciousness by means of the work he performs for the master . |
| 12 | When the Theogonist accompanies the Empire army into battle he rides on the mobile War Altar of Sigmar , a huge chariot which carries the sacred altar surmounted by a huge statue of a griffon . |
| 13 | Chairman of the FUW 's farm tourism committee he serves on the steering group of Menter Powys and is vice-chairman of Food From Britain 's joint venture steering group for sheep which is currently investigating prospects for marketing quality Welsh lamb . |
| 14 | He claimed it came from his fully- equipped TV centre above the pub he runs in the centre of Liverpool |
| 15 | It is the passage he reads in the synagogue of his home town at the outset of his work . |
| 16 | I do n't know what he 's got against roses , but if you use even one in a bouquet he goes up the wall . |
| 17 | The fee charged by the agent is , naturally enough , directly proportional to the compensation he gleans from the public authority on behalf of his client . |
| 18 | In Ego Dormio he explains to the Sister that as she grows in her love of Christ , she will find nothing matters to her but this love and the sin of man which disfigures it , and that all this is focused by thinking on the Passion of Christ : Although in The Form he makes it clear to Margaret that it is difficult to be too prescriptive about meditation , since God will put the kind of thoughts into her heart that are right for her , he does say in Emendatio Vitae that beginners in spiritual life may find the words of others helpful ( 8.120.31 – 2 ) and on occasions he himself wrote meditations on the Passion which embody his understanding of the catalysis they are designed to help . |
| 19 | Since then he has spent his time equally divided between Belfast and a home he has in the south of France . |
| 20 | When not leading the armies to war he dwells at the court of the Everqueen and keeps the peace in Avelorn , slaying marauding monsters and hunting down bands of Beastmen and Goblins . |
| 21 | A French tourist visiting England Locke 's case seems to be that the moment he steps on the territory of England he has tacitly agreed erm to obey the laws and in return erm of course he receives the protection of those laws . |
| 22 | As a Harijan he benefits from the Government 's reservation scheme for these ‘ backward classes ’ and is thus assured of his job : there were only 40 eligible candidates from his category for 100 posts , whereas there were 5,000 higher-caste Hindus contesting the remaining 80 posts . |
| 23 | And he could finance his bid with the cash he raises from the sale of players like Lindsay Curry , Ricky Wade and Stephen Baxter . |
| 24 | At one point he talks of the extension over time of ‘ a personality ’ rather than of ‘ a person ’ , and might have said that , even if the general knew what he did as a boy , it could be nothing to him , no part of his adult conception of himself , and so not a matter for guilt or blame . |
| 25 | In his theological writings , it is not always easy to see at what point he steps over the borderline between magic and religion . |
| 26 | Indeed it would be possible to identify some fells from the attention he gives to the geology and his affection for each fold of rock and each rattling , winding ghyll , without seeing the characteristic outline of the peak . |
| 27 | He compliments the production operator on the detailed attention he gives to the quality components coming off his line . |
| 28 | The following extract from the preface to Orion aveugle ( 1970 ) conveys the importance he attaches to the exploitation of both signifier and signified : |
| 29 | It is very hard to pin down just exactly how Richter weaves his magic spell ; that unique full sound he draws from the instrument at all dynamic levels , whilst utilising a seemingly limitless variety of articulation ; the scintillating combination of intellect , technical bravura , and extraordinary interpretative perception ? |
| 30 | At exactly 2100 hours their time on Tuesdays and Thursdays , the DJ will relay any short coded messages in the dedication for the first record he plays on the ‘ Lovers Overseas ’ programme . |