Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [pron] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He offers himself as a strong figure and also a young one . |
| 2 | This seems to be true in spite of the fact that Spinoza was very much of a generation which was concerned to dissociate itself from the Greek inheritance , and indeed he represents something of a fresh injection of Jewish moral feeling into the main Christian current of Western thought . |
| 3 | He prides himself on a forthright nature and says he has asked more questions than any other MP in the House . |
| 4 | By a somewhat artificial rule , a servant who receives a thing from his master for the master 's use is deemed not to be in possession of it , though the contrary is true where he receives it from a stranger for the master 's use . |
| 5 | Only one of them looks directly out of the picture , and he holds us with a gloomy , ironical eye — an unflattered eye , as well , we ca n't help noticing . |
| 6 | He holds it through a riveting performance of the Toccata , a sumptuously lyrical adagio ( although perhaps here it has more the air of an andante amabile ) and a gloriously ebullient Fugue . |
| 7 | The accused agrees to transfer shares to the victim but before doing so he transfers them to a third party . |
| 8 | He wants me in a purple gown to match the set and shows me drawings of the dancers ' outfits . |
| 9 | Towards the end of the story , Gowie does start to become much nicer — not because of people threatening him , but because he meets somebody with a stronger personality who wants to be his friend . |
| 10 | He describes himself as a practising Christian whose main hobby is cricket . |
| 11 | Although he describes himself as a simple Buddhist monk , he has become an international figure , touring the world to give talks and also meeting many world leaders , dignitaries and religious figures . |
| 12 | He describes it as a steep overhanging wall , with two hard 12 feet sections . |
| 13 | Such a word may be useful to a literary man but it throws little light on Green 's intentions except when he uses it in a negative sense ; in one chapter he states a subject was ‘ unpicturesque and consequently not worth an artists attention ’ . |
| 14 | He fills it with a restless , bristling energy , as if he might clamber out of the frame and into real life . |
| 15 | Looking at Philip Swallow now , as he seats himself in a low , upholstered chair facing her , Robyn has difficulty in recognizing the jet-set philanderer of Rupert Sutcliffe 's description . |
| 16 | Now he fancies himself as a great military strategist . |
| 17 | He fancies himself as a sporting man . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ He reveals Himself in a receptor-orientated fashion ’ ( Kraft 1979:169 ) . |
| 19 | And although Platinum has , like the spreadsheet solution that preceded it , some limitations , he sees it as a good basis for future developments . |
| 20 | But the reader gains as well , because he sees it from a different angle . |
| 21 | But the reader gains as well because he sees it from a different angle . |
| 22 | Above all , however deeply he commits himself to a long-term end , it must never be allowed to outweigh ‘ Be aware ’ . |
| 23 | But first he takes us on a brisk trot through lesser ranges , principally the Alps , from Balmat on Mont Blanc to the many feats of Mummery and beyond . |
| 24 | He surrounds himself with a considered disarray of natural objects ; piles of logs for the open fire , wooden rustic chairs , a chinese screen and antique rugs thrown over the parquet floor . |
| 25 | He may use tools of analysis developed within a wider European tradition , but he applies them to a special problem : the uniqueness of our nation 's formation ; the condition of England . |
| 26 | He remembers him as a melancholy figure . |
| 27 | He regards them as a necessary but tiresome ingredient in the successful running of the Empire . |
| 28 | When a character steps through the ever-changing arch , he finds himself on a narrow pathway through a forest of bizarre trees . |
| 29 | Quick as a flash , he shoots an arrow , but when he runs forward , he finds nothing but a stringy tree-rat . |
| 30 | He tells me of a great battle his ancestors fought near Lake Victoria . |