Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Douglas Young reports from the Berlin Film Festival on several exciting discoveries he made among this year 's entries ( and some he wishes he had n't ) |
| 2 | He has such great familiarity with the keyboard that when it is hidden for him by a cloth spread over it , he plays on this cloth with the same speed and the same precision . |
| 3 | There was such regret , such a bleakness in his eyes that Lissa turned away , her soul crying out in anguish because it was plain for anyone to see how much he cared for this woman who had betrayed him . |
| 4 | ‘ Which is why it 's so super that he agreed to this interview , ’ she quickly covered her slip . |
| 5 | That 's why he agreed to this article on the hacienda . ’ |
| 6 | He goes to this drug unit and helps at the library . |
| 7 | And here I might remark that the chief point that strikes the observer as he goes through this department is the predominance of the bogie — in fact , there is very little else . |
| 8 | If the patient 's spasticity increases as he goes through this sequence , the task is too difficult . |
| 9 | Among the informants he met in this way was a Lebanese Army officer known as ‘ The Captain' , with close connections to the Jafaar clan . |
| 10 | He capitalizes on this discovery by observing that certain editions of the English Primers from C.1530 onwards also contain Savonarola 's soliloquy on Psalm 1 , ‘ Infelix ego , thus supplying Byrd ( directly or indirectly ) both with his words and with an English ambience to an ostensibly purely foreign text that the composer exploited in his chosen manner of setting . |
| 11 | How far has he flown in this time ? unc Answer 54,825.0 kilometres Again the figures move to higher place values , this time two places to the left while the decimal holds its place . |
| 12 | He laughs at this scenario but it carries the ring of truth . |
| 13 | ( He failed on this occasion . ) |
| 14 | He refers to this list as his ‘ Environment Initiative ’ . |
| 15 | And when he got into this lane he was about a hundred yards off the village . |
| 16 | ‘ Why ca n't he stay in this hospital ? |
| 17 | He rejoiced in this confirmation of the essential harmony of science and religion . |
| 18 | What did he know about this man , Myles Burke ? |
| 19 | But then , suppose he found in this Bowl some indication as to how the Society might be handled ? |
| 20 | On behalf of Mrs Kemp he objected to this denial of the rules of natural justice . |
| 21 | A few years before he died he posed for this effigy , placing the completed picture in his room , adjacent to his bed , as a memento mori . |
| 22 | He said and what he often does is because he lives over this area . |
| 23 | And he lives in this garage because out there you get earthquakes , and when you get earthquake damage to your house the government will fix it . |
| 24 | When he moved at this time to larger premises at no. 5 Charing Cross , his maps were reputed the finest being engraved anywhere in the world . |
| 25 | He concludes with this paragraph : If religion throughout the ages , and certainly in many parts of the world today , has been used as a weapon for destructive purposes , are we not called to demonstrate that as people of faith we can both live in passionate commitment to our respective tradition and at the same time in compassionate respect for each other and to affirm that the faith commitment of each one is only truly realized when we live in that mutual respect accordingly ? |
| 26 | These feelings tend to be transitory but some patients remain psychologically disturbed for many years and , in a few psychological difficulties develop in the convalescent period which were not apparent during the acute episode.While these problems can sometimes be anticipated in hospital on the basis of the patient 's reaction to his illness , and any premorbid difficulties which he has encountered in the past , a better idea of his potential can be gained by following him during the convalescent period to observe how he copes with the various stresses and strains which he encounters during this time . |
| 27 | This is a horror movie a fucking horror movie this lunatic is making his own horror film and you ca n't even tell yourself Hell it 's only a story are n't the special effects good it is n't real because that 's exactly what it is and the gorilla man is explaining in that hideous high-pitched baby 's voice what he has in this bottle and in this syringe and I throw up halfway through but they pause the video for me . |
| 28 | Not guilty , did n't do it that 's why what gorilla man did sickened me ; no blood well hardly any blood literally a drop , a drip , a fucking pixel on the screen and the only thing slicing into flesh was a needle , tiny and delicate not a chainsaw or an axe or a knife or anything , but it 's that image that idea that old devil meme , I keep dreaming about it , keep having nightmares about it , and I 'm the trapped one , I 'm the man in the leather-and-chrome chair and he 's there with his gorilla face and his squeaky baby voice , explaining to the camera that what he has in this bottle and in this syringe is sperm ; the crazy fucker 's loaded it up with jism man looks like half a fucking milk bottle of the stuff and he 's going to inject it into the little guy 's veins and he ties something round the naked upper arm of the little guy strapped to the chair and pulls it tight and waits for the vein to show while the little guy howls and screams like a child and tries to shake the chair to bits or rip it apart but he 's too well strapped in there no purchase no leverage and then the man in the gorilla mask just does it ; sinks the needle into the little guy 's skin with a bit of blood and empties the whole syringe into him . |
| 29 | To assist the haulier in making early settlement the creditor , upon receiving a written request , is obliged to give the haulier ( the debtor ) all the information he needs for this purpose . |
| 30 | He referred to this condition as the ‘ mind-wandering habit ’ . |