Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let him see therein an infinity of universes , each of which has its firmament , its planets , its earth , in the same proportion as in the visible world … |
| 2 | This leads him to put forward an alternative , three-point scheme for understanding the individual 's conscious and subconscious behaviour and its relation to the social world . |
| 3 | Some of his achievements are cheered by all , or nearly all : the way in which he stitched together an international coalition against Saddam Hussein ; the way he managed to use the United Nations to prosecute American policy ; his courage . |
| 4 | His eyes scanned her face , as if he sought there an answer to the problem perplexing his mind . |
| 5 | Since he has only an option and does not legally commit himself to buy the goods , the contract is not one of sale , Helby v. Matthews ( 1895 H.L. ) . |
| 6 | And it was very very interesting , he has quite an assortment of them , but he has n't , |
| 7 | He alleged that when he asked Scott about the planning , he received only an off-hand reply . |
| 8 | Although he sailed over with King George , as some twenty-five years previously he had accompanied the Prince of Orange on his voyage to claim the crown , he received only an annuity of £400 from the new monarch , was soon deep in debt again , and ended his days in a debtor 's prison . |
| 9 | He quotes approvingly an anonymous ‘ youth ’ who believes that gay men have given up the battle between men : ‘ they 've submitted to men … . |
| 10 | So we get him back and he gets maybe an extra six months for going over the wall . |
| 11 | Surrounded by tropical tanks in the office , he keeps only an eccentric mix of ‘ temperate fish in a tank at home , and many of the ideas from that tank are adapted for this article . |
| 12 | As the record states , he brought home an impressive collection of penises , cut from his foes : |
| 13 | And despite Robbie 's protest that his daughter might also scold if he brought home an unexpected extra guest , the Reverend Mr Taylor hustled them out of the church and towards the adjoining house . |
| 14 | He laughed abruptly an afterthought . |
| 15 | He puts forward an ethic consisting of habits of mind and of behaviour to which he thinks one will inevitably move to the extent that one has rational insight into the human situation and is under the control of that rational part of one 's nature which gives one unity as a personality . |
| 16 | ( Indeed in the same passage in the Commentary he puts forward an argument — which might well be used in favour of the ordination of women ! — that order pertains to the soul , and the soul is without sex ; a point , interestingly , to which he makes no response . |
| 17 | We may note that Lieberich also spoke again at the RI , this time on the real and the ideal in portraiture , in March 1875 ; by then he had both an MD and MRCS after his name . |
| 18 | He had also an interest in a company , Heathrow Fabrications Ltd. , and was the company 's auditor . |
| 19 | And er he went round and I do n't know I never heard him playing the fiddle , but they said he was very good at fiddling , but he was a grand one for old stories , , and er he was just doing farms here and there so Then eventually he turned so old he 'd only one dog and then er he died down at the D At a place called the Doonie And this man D Duncan , he had just an er one of the er I think one of the tramps from Blair Gowrie was working to him and he came up and told my father and my father went down to see about him , you see him being in the parish council . |
| 20 | Yeah , and if he becomes just an auto run it could just knock him back a bit , one of the crowd , you know , just another one |
| 21 | The young New Zealander came down to earth with a bruising bump in the World Cup and still has much to learn , but he remains potentially an all-rounder of world class . |
| 22 | He ought , whether he remains technically an employee or is treated as a partner or is classified as somewhere between the two ( eg taxed under Sched D on his " salary " ) , to be in a position to know enough about his firm to judge what amounts to a reasonable restriction and not to need the court 's protection if he should have agreed to covenants in stringent terms . |
| 23 | He set forth an idealistic view of a society in which all privilege would be done away with , and in which wealth and power would be fairly shared , on the basis of competitive public examinations with General Essay papers on EITHER Natural Justice OR ‘ Everything is for the best in the best of all possible worlds . ’ |
| 24 | He set aside an area of one hundred and nine acres to the east of the original Saxon village ( called Old Town to this day ) and on it laid out a regular plan of streets — three running parallel with the river and three others crossing them at right angles . |