Example sentences of "[adv] he [be] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he came down he was wearing a professional air and said the symptoms were those of food poisoning . |
| 2 | Well perhaps he 's buying a bleeding washing machine |
| 3 | On another level , perhaps he was fighting a wayward spirit he could not control . |
| 4 | He 's a builder fair enough but nevertheless he 's doing a good job . |
| 5 | When it was over he was given a Military Cross by the British , and the Croix de Guerre by the French . |
| 6 | The father-of-three became chairman of the Bar Council in 1972 and three years later he was made a High Court Judge and was immediately appointed to the Chancery Division . |
| 7 | A few minutes later he was uncorking a fine claret in Masha 's room , saying he had something to celebrate : he 'd been invited to breakfast at Downing Street to help brief Maggie for her trip to Poland . |
| 8 | Two months later he was fined a further £100 and banned from the touchline until the end of that season for remarks to a linesman during a game at Dundee United . |
| 9 | Whenever he was shown a new sexual technique , he would use it the very next night on his new partner . |
| 10 | Last month he starred as the poor man 's hero in the film Robin Hood and now he 's playing a wealthy land agent in Granada TV 's new series , The Real Charlotte , which starts next Monday . |
| 11 | Miss J. has pretty well run him and now he 's doing a roaring trade and has just married a daughter of Lord Lytton , he 's evidently right in with the right lot of people … and what a God 's mercy that for once in a way these people have got hold of the right man and what a thing for England . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ And now he is playing a little game with you . ’ |
| 13 | Now he is forging a new career as a poet , author and songwriter . |
| 14 | And now he was passing a second and more dilapidated pillbox and it struck him that the whole headland had the desolate look of an old battlefield , the corpses long since carted away but the air vibrating still with the gunfire of long-lost battles , while the power station loomed over it like a grandiose modern monument to the unknown dead . |
| 15 | It turned out he was escaping a planned course of ECT because no one on his ward believed he might have a drink problem . |
| 16 | Often he was fighting a lonely battle . |
| 17 | Today he 's living a quiet life in Bromyard . |
| 18 | Today he was wearing a clerical collar , as was , more often than Canon Wheeler , his habit . |
| 19 | Well he 's going a good way of doing it is n't he |
| 20 | Two weeks ago he was given a seven-year sentence for two rapes and two serious sexual assaults . |
| 21 | Chramn 's actions are best interpreted as those of a prince determined to have some share in the Merovingian kingdom : effectively he was creating a new kingdom in his father 's lifetime . |
| 22 | A SPLIT second earlier he was driving a racing car . |
| 23 | But since then he 's won a Second Division promotion medal and is near the top of the Premier League . |
| 24 | Since then he 's acquired a growing reputation as a landscape photographer . |
| 25 | Sometimes you see someone painting a door or something and get that little bit done there and then they step back to make sure they have n't missed something cos they could be it could be so obvious to anyone who 's just standing , What 's he doing there he 's left a big piece in the corner there that |
| 26 | You may not recall that , when Edgar Oldroyd asked him how he was enjoying a long spell bowling into the wind , he answered , ‘ It 's like bowling up t'bloody cellar steps . ’ |
| 27 | At this time of the year , if Napoleon had not returned , Sharpe should have been thinning the apple crop , stripping away basketloads of young fruit to give the remaining crop a better chance of ripening in the autumn , but instead he was riding a dusty road in Belgium and searching for an enemy . |
| 28 | Cabinet ministers were exasperated that he allowed last Thursday , when he was facing a big test in the Commons , to be dominated by the resignation of a junior member of the Cabinet . |
| 29 | Reformed junkie Davies , who has served two prison sentences , met stunning Fiona Brown , 28 , when he was given a two-year probation order for theft . |
| 30 | • After serving 18 months in the wilderness as punishment for running Michael Heseltine 's leadership challenge , East Hampshire MP Michael Mates was welcomed in from the cold this week when he was given a ministerial post by the Prime Minister . |