Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the Daily Telegraph 's reviewer thought the twenty-year-old too young for the role of Buddy , he conceded that ‘ he plays it with an infectious sense of fun . |
| 2 | Brahe ‘ shows ’ Epstein his work — that is , he flies him around the 30-kilometer circumference of the accelerator which is buried deep underground , pinpointing the surface features and describing their relation to the features concealed below the surface . |
| 3 | He offers himself as a strong figure and also a young one . |
| 4 | With feet of lead he pitches us into the high winds with the wisdom of a professional . |
| 5 | He maketh me to lie down in green pastures : he leadeth me beside the still waters . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He prides himself on a forthright nature and says he has asked more questions than any other MP in the House . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It must be admitted that a great deal of what Judaeo-Christianity has to say about the ‘ goodness ’ of God is based upon claims about the way in which He involves himself in the historical process . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Holding it up , he shouts something to the two Tibetans by the fire . |
| 13 | He has none of the other worries or tasks that you have to deal with daily . |
| 14 | ‘ Shut the window , please ’ is said in a situation where the speaker rather expects the hearer to act so as to fulfil a certain sort of wish of his , if he indicates that he has it by an imperative sentence . |
| 15 | He is carrying the map the class have made , which his " friend " has delivered ; he thanks them for the excellent job they have done . |
| 16 | The accused agrees to transfer shares to the victim but before doing so he transfers them to a third party . |
| 17 | Simpson still delays taking the kick , now it comes in , he knocks it into the far post , looking for Paul . |
| 18 | He wants me in a purple gown to match the set and shows me drawings of the dancers ' outfits . |
| 19 | He can teach us because He knows us through and through — our strengths , our weaknesses , inclinations and dispositions — and He loves us with an all-penetrating love . |
| 20 | Then he says something about the formal appeal of this sculpture to twentieth-century Western taste , because of its freedom from the canon of realism : |
| 21 | Patrick has plenty to say on such subjects , and he says it in the lordly way which does much to furnish the book with its presiding idiom . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , that 's the Eiffel Tower , ’ and he says it in the same tone of voice as if you had shown him a portrait of Grandpa , and he had said : ‘ So that 's your grandfather I 've heard so much about . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He describes himself as a practising Christian whose main hobby is cricket . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He describes it as a steep overhanging wall , with two hard 12 feet sections . |
| 27 | While Blanche tries to pass him in one of the passages he grabs her and he hurts her in the cruellest and most brutal way . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | He fills it with a restless , bristling energy , as if he might clamber out of the frame and into real life . |
| 30 | He blames himself for the 35-yard rocket from Paul Gascoigne that ripped through his grasp after just five minutes . |