Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb -s] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just a brief response to a small part of Iain MacLaren 's letter , where he refers to the Royal Navy abandoning hammocks not long after the Second World War . |
| 2 | He lives — with Judy , his wife of 24 years — in Ealing , West London , where he drinks at the cricket club and , along with the Kinnocks , is one of the local celebrities . |
| 3 | For example the owner of a motor vehicle can be said to use it where he sits at the side of the driver , who is not his employee and the vehicle is being used for his purpose ( Cobb v Williams [ 1973 ] RTR 1 13 ) . |
| 4 | He has set up a pirate radio station in his bedroom , where he talks to the disaffected youth of his neighbourhood under the guise of Happy Harry Hard-On . |
| 5 | Like Russian Formalism , Richards 's early work turns its back on positivistic scholarship , and calls for a criticism that deals directly with the distinctive properties of literature ; where he differs from the Formalists , however , is in defining these properties in terms of human experience and human value . |
| 6 | It is this preoccupation which accounts for Derrida 's choice , and forceful interrogation , of the privileged examples of Saussure — where he focuses on the ‘ profound ethnocentrism ’ of his exclusion of writing — Rousseau and Lévi-Strauss . |
| 7 | In mid-November Sinterklaas sails in his steamer from Spain [ where he lives during the rest of the year ] to Holland . |
| 8 | Sherlock Holmes leaves England for New York City where he comes to the aid of his long-time love , the famous stage actress Irene Adler . |
| 9 | Guess we kinda know now where he stands on the issue . |
| 10 | He 's behind the bushes , or he sits in the church itself when it 's cold , and I do n't blame him because it 's been pretty cold the last , you know , few weeks . |
| 11 | I 'm suggesting we send that man a voucher for fifty pound that his company or he puts towards the next time they buy a full fare or an Apex and then we actually get fifty quid or a hundred and fifty quid . |
| 12 | Although he comes from the same mean streets that spawned Tyson , Bowe says : ‘ My approach is totally different to his . |
| 13 | Timothy O'Riordan , of the University of East Anglia , thinks sustainability might be accepted as the ‘ mediating term ’ between developers and environmentalists , although he leans to the view that it will eventually languish as a ‘ good idea ’ which can not sensibly be put into practice . |
| 14 | One owner of former Chester Beatty material — although he has in the past denied this — now proving reluctant to return it , is David Nasser Khalili , the dealer/collector who is offering his collection on loan to the British nation ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 21 , October 1992. p.1 ) . |
| 15 | In a year or two he should have a decent sized flock — of course he 's not normally down here this early , he only has a bit of a stable down here that he rents for the summer along with his few acres of grass and his bit of land for cultivation . |
| 16 | Since the quadrupling of the defence budget in 1950–55 , the president 's main source of power has come from the fact that he sits at the head of a great ‘ national security state ’ — to adopt the phrase of Daniel Patrick Moynihan , a Democratic senator . |
| 17 | And Beuno said nothing , but he looked at him as mildly as he looks at the trout that he catches in the stream , and the doctor said , ‘ Until tomorrow ’ , and he left , and Beuno watched him go as mildly as he watches the sheep when he frees them from where they are caught in the hedge . |
| 18 | They will be fascinated at the incredible insects that he meets inside the Peach as it floats away over the ocean and delighted when the seagulls come to the rescue and James and the insects inside the Peach are carried away towards America for a hero 's reception . |
| 19 | The inference in his letter is that he speaks for the Council of the National Union of which he is chairman . |
| 20 | I am not suggesting that he arrives at the meaning of Truth as the result of philosophical or metaphysical speculation in a vacuum . |
| 21 | If we can examine the matter in detail , might we be able to find sufficient research funds for the Leader of the Opposition to be able to check the quotations that he uses against the Prime Minister before misquoting them ? |
| 22 | can do that Er yeah can you what what 's what 's the one that he does with the hundred hands up ? ha , ha , ha , ha , ha |
| 23 | In addition to that , John Prescott was mentioned , and John could not attend the meetings that he does around the country if he did not have the facility to be able to be away from Parliament during times when erm , there are votes that need to be taken . |
| 24 | It is not just that he persists in the language of ‘ lord ’ and ‘ servant , when Esau has called him ‘ brother ’ , though that is significant enough . |
| 25 | And the bill he , that he gets at the same as the time as the delivery , and what 's normal credit conditions ? |
| 26 | If the purpose of that is to transform attitudes to training , what effect will the lead handcuff clause that he proposes for the training contract have on attitudes to training ? |
| 27 | The trustee may at any time give notice to a secured creditor that he proposes at the end of twenty-eight days to redeem the security at the value placed upon it by the creditor in his proof . |
| 28 | Nicholson , who is being paid a handsome £5 million , is reported to have immersed himself so completely in the part that he wanders around the set mumbling the notorious Hoffa 's favourite phrases — even after the cameras have shut down for the night . |
| 29 | Unless that party , not less than seven days before the hearing , gives notice to the other party that he objects to the use of the affidavit , he is to be taken to have consented to the use of it and the affidavit may be used at the hearing unless the court otherwise orders ( Ord 20 , r 7(1) ) . |
| 30 | Second , that he objects to the topicality of the subject that he 's chosen , and finally that he 's not , of course , at home writing prose . |