Example sentences of "and he [vb -s] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He noted that the Lakenvelder has a black tongue , whereas black-and-whites have pink tongues ( the same is true of other belted European cattle and also some colour-pointed animals and , oddly , Jerseys ) , and he quotes the eminent Dutch geneticist , Dr A.L. |
| 2 | And he describes the last 14 years of his life dedicated to overcoming the bitterness accumulated since the ‘ rubber barons ’ first reached the region , bringing with them thousands of labourers from Brazil 's impoverished Northeast , who they set to work as Seringueiros in lands wrested from the Indians . |
| 3 | In Britain , the most important work on the placement of tonic stress is Halliday ( 1967 ) ; his term for this is ‘ tonicity ’ , and he adopts the widely-used linguistic term ‘ marked ’ for tonicity that deviates from what I have called ( for the sake of simplicity ) ‘ normal ’ . |
| 4 | The social anthropologist is equally , of course , an entrepreneur whose special expertise lies in mediating between exotic cultures and his own , and he has the same vested interests as other go-betweens . |
| 5 | He looks like Sir Hugo , and he has the same evil character . |