Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [adv] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | With a detached air , he wears down his opponents with pure skill and occasional showboating , the flashy moves that a clearly superior boxer can get away with . |
| 32 | An unemployed engineer in Coventry , who joined the Labour Party after being made redundant , walks to all his meetings and reckons he wears out his shoes three times faster than when he was working . |
| 33 | He puffs out his chest like a wood pigeon . |
| 34 | As the king abdicates , he divides up his kingdom as a dower for his three daughters , and orders them — ‘ Tell me , my daughters ’ — to declare the quantity of their love : ‘ Which of you shall we say doth love us most ? ’ |
| 35 | Even if he gets round your leg guard and starts kicking you , keep going . |
| 36 | Among other things he gets off his chest are opinions about contemporaries : Bob Appleyard could be ‘ quite nasty and overbearing ’ , Ray Illingworth was ‘ selfish ’ but often helpful , John Edrich was ‘ a little stirrer off the field ’ , Geoff Arnold ‘ moaned incessantly ’ on tour , and Geoff Boycott was the ‘ most selfish , egotistical individual I have ever met ’ . |
| 37 | ‘ Perhaps he wo n't come back to Trelorne , ’ Aunt Emily said , ‘ if he gets back his taste for painting duchesses and celebrated actresses . |
| 38 | ( He gets out his torch . ) |
| 39 | Before he gets out his scissors , repeat what you have agreed on , to check that you 're both talking the same language . |
| 40 | ‘ Where a man , having the animus furandi ( see ante , para. 1469 ) , obtains possession of goods by frightening the owner , as by threatening him with temporary imprisonment unless he delivers up his goods , and the owner does deliver them under the influence of the fear inspired by his threat , this is considered such a taking ( although there is a delivery in fact ) as to constitute larceny : Reg. v. Lovell ( 1881 ) 8 Q.B.D. 185 . |
| 41 | Then comes the crowning glory of Frank 's act , as he peels off his raincoat to reveal a smart suit underneath . |
| 42 | He peels off his shirt , unbuckles the belt , lets the jeans slip to the ground . |
| 43 | He keeps up their morale and always remembers to see that they are thanked properly . |
| 44 | He takes over her life and even her education , continues to sleep with other women and tells the poor girl they ca n't be seen together in public . |
| 45 | ‘ Three weeks sitting in for the regular breakfast show jock on a commercial station there , while he takes over your show here . |
| 46 | He takes over his job at the telecommunications regulator on 1 April . |
| 47 | The RoboCop is basically a ‘ man in a suit ’ ; but in the story he has been so reconstituted that even his skin , seen only at his face and not much there until he takes off his helmet , is supposed to be toughened like plastic . |
| 48 | ( He takes off his hat , raises his eyes to look where it was , smooths down his smooth egg of a head , places hat on table and resumes pacing . ) |
| 49 | He takes off his workaday specs to prove it : smooth as a baby . |
| 50 | He takes out his hunter 's knife , and stabs her three times . |
| 51 | At the beginning of his translation , Mannyng appeals to the reader : His vivid description of the Crucifixion both stresses Christ 's willingness — he climbs the ladder to mount the cross , then turns at the top , laying himself vulnerable and open as he stretches out his arms and back against it — and rams home the shock of pain as the nails are driven in . |
| 52 | Erm then he asks the candidates er Do you sincerely want to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation ? and you stand when he calls out your name , hell call out you names , yeah ? |
| 53 | It 's in verse eleven , as a result of the anguish of his soul he will see it and be satisfied , he 'll be satisfied with the rescue operation , he 'll be satisfied with what he has accomplished , Isaiah says , and Jesus uses , perhaps , even more extravagant language , there in Luke fifteen , when he says in verse six , in verse mm mm , in verse seven , when he comes home with that sheep that he 's rescued with that lost to but it now has been found , when he brings it home he says there wi , he says he calls together his friends and his neighbours , saying to them rejoice with me ! |
| 54 | A good Orc warlord takes such things into account when he draws up his battlelines , but even the best commander will be lucky to avoid the effects of Animosity altogether . |
| 55 | He draws up his chair . |
| 56 | He throws back his head and laughs . |
| 57 | I look at the false leg for a bit while he pulls up his trouser leg . |
| 58 | He shrugs off his legacy of injuries — a fractured bone in his back , ripped Achilles tendons , the deep bruise on his face which he picked up on the way to winning a bronze medal in Poland . |
| 59 | And as he mulls over his reasons for behaving as he has and for writing and publishing this record , the footnote status of ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ causes it to embrace a wide range of familiar themes . |
| 60 | ‘ GREATER LOVE hath no man than that he lays down his jokes for his Prime Minister , ’ a Cabinet minister said in Blackpool on hearing of the sacrifice made by Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment . |