Example sentences of "[det] [conj] he [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first place , in a style in which one of the fundamental problems had always been the reconciliation of solid form with the picture plane , the letters written or stencilled across the surface are the most conclusive way of emphasizing its two-dimensional character ; Braque has stressed this when he said of the letters : ‘ they were forms which could not be distorted because , being quite flat , the letters existed outside space and their presence in the painting , by contrast , enabled one to distinguish between objects situated in space and those outside it . ’ |
| 2 | Stevenson knew this when he spoke of the ‘ subarctic sunsets , with the profile of the city stamped in indigo upon a sky of luminous green ’ . |
| 3 | He went silent and dark and withdrew into himself , the two thumbs rotating about one another as he sat in the car chair by the fire . |
| 4 | It was after that that he complained about the brakes to Morrison . ’ |
| 5 | The thought appalled him so much that he went into the attic and slid back into bed without saying anything more to either of them . |
| 6 | If Chris Patten lies to the people of Hong Kong as much as he lied to the people of Britain , then God help them when the Chinese take over . |
| 7 | A word of warning : please consult your vet as to exactly what quantity of Eukanuba you should give your Rottweiler each day — it is very easy to put ON weight with Eukanuba if you are n't careful — and the instructions on the bag do suggest you allow your dog to take as much as he wished during the 24-hour period . |
| 8 | Now we could ask him to write about what he has drawn , to tell as much as he knows about the trains that run at the back of his house . |
| 9 | ‘ Hauptsturmführer Vaughan will remain and test-fly the plane now and as much as he wants for the rest of the day . |
| 10 | Wickham had said as much when he spoke on the telephone to Ray Darby , the documents expert , telling him the file was on its way to him . |
| 11 | I 've not had the experience perhaps of teaching so many dyslexic children to be able to comment on this , but certainly when I was making the videotape at Brickwall School and I asked the headmaster about that and he pointed to the fact that they certainly have a very wide intake , a complete social mix , and Professor Miles at Bangor University says that in his experience of dealing with dyslexic children they come from all walks of life , and it 's really quite inaccurate — I suppose there 's a sense in which , if we 've got to use these phrases , that middle class people have always been very concerned about the education of their children and so they may be the parents who will ask questions about their children 's lack of development , but I think it 's only , you know , more significant in middle class terms because of that . |
| 12 | In chapter nine Rolle writes a prose-poem about the efficacy of a prayer in which the Holy Name is a focus for all that he understands about the process of redemption . |
| 13 | One way of perceiving this progression is as the struggle of the poet to come to terms with the nature of creativity , drawing on all that he sees in the imagery of lines 12–22 until the attainment of maturity in the ‘ momently ’ of line 24 , when he reaches a state of oneness with his environment and is free to channel its flow into works of art . |
| 14 | Mark , having become the interpreter of Peter , wrote down accurately , though not in order , all that he remembered of the things said and done by the Lord … |
| 15 | For all that he warned against the mixing of science and religion , Bacon remained convinced that scientific conclusions had still to be limited by religion . |
| 16 | He did n't belong in gardens , any more than he belonged in the company of two small children . |
| 17 | Lou never even looked , on Tuesday and Friday nights , any more than he looked at the instrument he played . |
| 18 | By the time my father could sit down with me in a pub , slightly drunk , tell me and my friends about Real Life , crack a joke about a Pakistani that silenced a whole table once , and talk about the farm labourer 's — his grandfather 's — journey up from Eye in Suffolk working on the building of the Great North Western Railway to Rawtenstall on the Lancashire-Yorkshire border , I was doing history at Sussex , and knew more than he did about the date and timing of journeys like that . |
| 19 | He did not do himself justice in 1991 , never getting his timing right in his early-season preparations any more than he did on the golf course . |
| 20 | She loved this man and she knew more than he did at the moment . |
| 21 | ‘ I could have made a real mess of that hole , but I took a calculated gamble and it paid off , ’ added Faldo , who walked off the green with a bogey four — one shot less than he registered in the first round . |
| 22 | His troubles in 1971 , however , were not just the March and his propensity for accidents : the fact was that he was now an experienced F3 driver , known to be quick , but by the nature of the formula was racing against a lot of people who were just beginners and knew far less than he did about the sport . |
| 23 | I wan na do all of them on me own so he phoned for the doctor to be quick , quick , quick , said Miss Polly put her straight to bed he wrote on a paper for a pill , pill , pill |
| 24 | Her attacker got a 2 month suspended sentence ; the same as he got for the original theft . |