Example sentences of "[verb] he [be] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robinson , who was England B coach with Alan Davies until both were dumped in the summer , reluctantly accepts he is fighting a lost cause : ‘ It is n't going to happen and the situation is beginning to get worrying . |
| 2 | Cynics also believed he was taking a great risk when he cast Jason Donovan and Phillip Schofield in Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , but both have been great successes . |
| 3 | The estranged wife of the Marquis of Blandford says he 's making a real effort to get back on the straight and narrow . |
| 4 | It can be said he was addressing a captive audience … of stooges . |
| 5 | In this case , the Court of Appeal held that there had been a breach of s14(2) as the plaintiff had thought he was buying a second-hand enthusiast 's car in good condition at a fair price when in fact he was buying , at the same price , a car which no one , knowing its history ( a car insurance write-off because it had been submerged in water for over 24 hours ) , would have bought at other than at a substantially reduced price . |
| 6 | When he goes on the one day in two years that something went wrong , that shows he 's doing a good job . ’ |
| 7 | WILEY Arfur Daley reckons he 's found a new way to score against the police — by taking them on at soccer . |
| 8 | When he returned he was holding a thin card in one hand . |
| 9 | ‘ I reckon he was carrying a hundred quid besides his pay . ’ |
| 10 | Another from a character called Piman announces he is selling a rare 1978 edition of Be Bop High School for 50,000 yen . |
| 11 | But despite this , Mr Pacey denies he 's chosen a bad time to go . |
| 12 | Then she saw he was holding a large stick in one hand . |
| 13 | They drew near the trees and Corbett felt he was entering a different world . |
| 14 | She 'd never been to Adam 's , but she knew he was renting a small cottage just a few miles away from her own home . |
| 15 | Looking down at him there on my English grass , under my English sun , I knew he was pretending a tie-dyed sky , glass sea , breeze in a fast boat . |
| 16 | Leith knew he was bleeding a little inside , but she also knew there was n't a thing she could say or do to help . |
| 17 | He thought he was having a secret affair , and everyone thought I did n't know and was terribly sympathetic . |
| 18 | Even the Treasury thought he was paying a ridiculous price , but that was up to him . |
| 19 | Last autumn , lord president of the Court of Session , suddenly announced he was forming a working party under to examine how to improve the handling of commercial cases and to make their hearing speedier and more convenient to litigants . |
| 20 | Kirkley , who also discovered England stars Trevor Steven ( for Burnley ) and Peter Beardsley ( Carlisle ) , feared the worst when Keegan announced he was planning a major overhaul at the club . |
| 21 | Mr Christie , backed by the campaigning organisation Liberty , yesterday announced he was making a formal complaint to the European Commission on Human Rights over the routine interception of telexes sent to him at the STUC 's Glasgow headquarters by a special unit within GCHQ . |
| 22 | LEEDS UNITED 'S season was dealt a further blow last night when David Batty admitted he was facing a lengthy lay-off . |
| 23 | At the interview Buckmaster had explained he was founding a new security firm specializing in protecting high-risk and valuable cargoes . |
| 24 | Then she realized he was examining a small rectangle of carpet . |
| 25 | ‘ I think 'e 's owed that , ’ said Sprott , ‘ I think 'e 's owed a generous tribute . ’ |
| 26 | This spotter was positioned on the canteen roof , and to house him was built a wooden structure somewhat like a pillbox with a hinged ‘ porthole ’ in the roof , to give him a clear 360 ° view . |
| 27 | I think he 's expecting a glorified vacation with a lot of scuba diving and board-sailing , but he does understand that a cruise-cure means giving up drugs . |
| 28 | I think he 's making a valid point . |
| 29 | However , it does n't seem he 's found a satisfactory answer for himself yet . ’ |
| 30 | If he 's made me believe them , that means he 's made a large part of the new me . |