Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] he [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first job of the officer is to ‘ determine whether he has before him sufficient evidence to charge that person with the offence for which he was arrested ’ . |
| 2 | It is an imaginative reaching out to grasp the reality of God , to encounter and respond to his will , and to find in him living truth . |
| 3 | Under the Housing Act 1980 he was empowered to ‘ do all such things as appear to him necessary or expedient ’ to enable tenants ‘ to exercise the right to buy ’ . |
| 4 | Could it be , as Kimura ( 1977b ) suggests , that : brain regions considered to he important for symbolic-language processes might better be conceived as important for the production of motor sequences which happen to lend themselves readily to communication ? |
| 5 | It must have , er have n't got all that worse then , here 's Tufnell comes up again , slightly faster than the other one , hits him on the pad or bit of that pad maybe , Robin Smith 's very close in there and once or twice he 's dived , he 's never quite sure whether off the pad or off bat and pad , everybody shouts at him poor chap , anyhow , catch it , a hundred and eighteen for three end of that one from Tufnell so he 's now bowled fifteen overs , two for seventeen that one was yet another maiden . |
| 6 | Cook , Cook , Cook ! we croaked in deprecatory tones as one by one we crept past him cowed and cold , fearing that he might invent some pretext to detain us … we hurried to bring to his notice the only name which seems to have power in Syria , that famous name of the hydra-headed , the indispensable , the world-wide Cook . |
| 7 | A taxi driver told Gloucester Crown Court that he saw two drivers laughing at each other as they roared past him nose-to-tail just before the crash . |
| 8 | He was schooled by the shadowy Loremasters of the Tower of Hoeth , who recognised in him great power . |
| 9 | I parade before him naked , but all he does is tinker with the television buttons . |
| 10 | So he 's got his nose to him like that and he says two so Robert Lindsay says to him free ! |
| 11 | The voice , with its softly intimidating suggestion of Irish burr , came to him strong and confident , as if Doyle 's great bulk loomed over the bed . |
| 12 | Afterwards Mary came to him aghast , ‘ Do change your clothes , darling , I beg you . ’ |
| 13 | The directions that he may give must appear to him necessary ( but not reasonably necessary ) to prevent such disorder , damage , disruption or intimidation , and may specifically include instructions not to enter a particular area . |
| 14 | The grounds upon which the powers to impose conditions may be exercised are very similar to those which are available in relation to processions ; section 14 provides that if the senior police officer believes that a public assembly may result in serious public disorder , serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community , or that the purposes of the persons organising it is to intimidate others with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do , or to do an act they have a right not to do , he may impose conditions as to the place of the assembly , its maximum duration or the maximum number of persons who may constitute it as may appear to him necessary to prevent the disorder , damage , disruption or intimidation . |
| 15 | It is the fragmented state of these religions that is so tragic , for , whilst the need for a god would appear to he overwhelming , no convincing description of what ‘ god ’ is , or can be , is as yet available for all to accept . |
| 16 | In spite of what the doctors said , it seemed to him probable that the accident had irremediably damaged her brain . |
| 17 | He also remembered the look of the adjustable spanner , and it seemed to him appropriate that having been knocked down with a spanner his whole body was now apparently being alternately wrenched and tightened . |
| 18 | The words seemed to him grudging , almost a small treachery . |
| 19 | ‘ A creeping sense of sickness comes over me at the unnecessariness of mediocre painting , ’ he wrote , admitting also that he sat back , whilst others indulged in what seemed to him brittle insanity , ‘ with a sort of smothered grin and tight feeling of suffocation ’ . |
| 20 | The tangled web of committees seemed to him likely to retard rather than accelerate development , and he hoped that clearer BEA responsibility would , as their headquarters staff were built up , lead to quicker progress . |
| 21 | The girl flashed one brief look in Hotspur 's direction , and for an instant the glitter of her eyes seemed to him hunted and wild . |
| 22 | He very much objected to the inevitable contraction of Nicandra to Nico , which seemed to him common . |
| 23 | It now seemed to him monstrous that tomorrow he , a stranger , would be looking unrebuked at her nakedness . |
| 24 | But he did not think of it as a cosmic event which must somehow change the whole of human thought , altering philosophy and theology and closing the mouths of poets ; such a view seemed to him superstitious , a denial of ordinary scholarship and ordinary hard-thinking rationality . |
| 25 | Faced with the implacable hostility of the Dwarfs it seemed to him foolish to maintain huge armies overseas , particularly with a more pressing threat to the Elf heartland . |
| 26 | They seemed to him beautiful , showing up the texture of her skin . |
| 27 | In his youth he seemed to he involved with many sports and I have seen evidence of his playing goalkeeper for a select Scottish hockey team — on roller-skates . |
| 28 | Well Tony Primmer 's an Australian and has been riding at Eastbourne and we were looking at him prior to this erm sort of amalgamation that came in because erm with our friendship with Bob Dugard , and looking for younger riders , he was sort of earmarked to come here at some stage . |
| 29 | Instead he sent out 12th man Paul Reiffel to cover for him whole he rang chairman of selectors Lawrie Sawle to vent his feelings about the news he had been given that morning . |
| 30 | Though Bowler came from a similar background to Ricky Stride , he was more responsive to what Minton had to teach him and their conversations opened for him new areas of interest , in art , books and theatre . |