Example sentences of "and he [be] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilkinson was in poor spirits after losing both his matches in the recent Davis Cup match with Hungary in Budapest , on clay , but the grass court season has given him renewed zest and he is playing the best tennis of his career . |
| 2 | Barry Hills ' luck took a turn for the better at Goodwood and he 's hoping the same applies at York . |
| 3 | He 's only thirty-four , and he 's done the same thing all over the Far East , taking over struggling and usually amateur or pirate radio stations like this one once was , and putting in people like me who pull commercial sponsorship because we draw listeners . |
| 4 | ‘ I know a guy who has been fined three times and he 's done the same thing again and got another fine . |
| 5 | Big Dessie , he come into work one day , he was and he come into I 'll see you in a minute Raymond , flew into the kitchen , and he runs past with a bo bottle of water and I goes out and he 's scrubbing the front passage you see . |
| 6 | ‘ But he wants you all to himself — and he 's found the best way to do that is to take away the pleasure you find in singing . |
| 7 | He 's only back from the war two minutes and he 's put the Medical Officer of Health 's nose out of joint . |
| 8 | He was off the road on a forest track , little-used and thick with dead leaves , and he was watching the failing light through the branches of the trees overhead . |
| 9 | Newton transformed the game after Fleck limped off following a kick up the backside and he was given the lone striker 's role . |
| 10 | He was a right , right and ultra right Labour party , and he was made the first chairman . |
| 11 | He took a prominent and active part in the investigations which led ultimately to the Mines Inspection Act of 1851 , and he was elected the first president of the North of England Institute of Mining Engineers , to which he subsequently read many papers , on its formation at Newcastle in 1852 . |
| 12 | Pak 's power base was in south Korea and he was to re-establish the Korean Communist Party on 12 September 1945 . |