Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He postures as a political activist , and the solidarity forced on the quintet by Shatov 's murder might be expected to make them a more effective instrument . |
| 2 | ‘ He plays for a mixed side in his spare time and is well up with the rules which is pretty useful because they seem to change every couple of months . ’ |
| 3 | However , when the first violin takes up the theme of the lullaby high up in its register , he plays with a pure sweetness that makes him sound like a luminous voice in the distance . |
| 4 | At the end of the day , Neil has had to come to terms with the fact that he plays in a certain way … |
| 5 | He plays in a definite way , dropping off scrums into a defensive pocket . |
| 6 | JOHN BARNES continues his comeback from an Achilles injury today when he plays in a combined Liverpool-Everton side against a joint Manchester United-City team in Graeme Sharp 's testimonial at Goodison Park . |
| 7 | He plays in a special game for Eusebio tomorrow in Portugal and must wait until Sunday for his Premier League debut against neighbours City . |
| 8 | Conventional wisdom dictates that the experiences at school , in the transition to work , at work itself and in society generally , tend to imbue the black youth with a jaundiced view of the world ; recoiling from the ‘ pressures ’ , he retreats to a street-corner gang existence , detaching himself from society and cultivating a posture of indifference or even hostility towards the rest of society . |
| 9 | Taken in and taught by rancher Turnstall , he turns into a raging avenger when Turnstall is shot . |
| 10 | No one is safe from suspicion — let alone the audience on whom he turns with an accusatory stare . |
| 11 | He points to a small cut on p.1 in the 1693 quarto , removing a reference to Hermia , Demetrius and Lysander , who — with 1692'5 Act 1 scene 1 disposed of — have yet to appear on stage . |
| 12 | He points to a distant waterfall like a zag of lightning on the hillside . |
| 13 | Embracing the ambiguous nature of that question with a dirty grin , he points to a big wheel . |
| 14 | He points to an inevitable parallel here between biological evolution and cognitive development in the life of an individual . |
| 15 | He has vilified Simon Bates with a campaign that amounts to persecution and he flies into a howling rage every time he hears Sing Something Simple ( R2 ) . |
| 16 | Catching sight of her , the boy Charles — see him now ! — wants To follow his father 's model : he asks , he begs for a keen horse , Urgently demands weapons , quiver and swift arrows , And craves to go chasing after the doe , just as his father himself would do . |
| 17 | The only way you can do that is if he goes to a special unit at Maidstone and works |
| 18 | Every so often , he goes to a local hospital where they give him an injection of something , which cheers him up noticeably . |
| 19 | He goes with a big girl called Cathy . |
| 20 | Brian Rouse a mechanic says he goes through a thorough check every day and washes the bikes and night and sometimes has to rebuild them . |
| 21 | But now he goes into an all-out attack , arguing that whereas relational properties presuppose the existence of certain non-relational , or " qualitative " , properties , the latter properties do not necessarily demand the existence of any " pluralistically committed " relational properties at all . |
| 22 | He sits on a low wall and waits . |
| 23 | Now , the elderly man who endured a waiter 's dirty fingers in his lemonade at Montrose could hardly have been more famous or respected , and there he sits in a dirty inn , happy to enjoy a little quiet , and quite at ease to do so , even in the company of one of the most garrulous men in the realm whose nature abhorred a conversational vacuum ; Johnson even expressed a simple delight in being thought as silent as a ghost . |
| 24 | David Tory , the president of the Open Software Foundation , has added another directorship to his CV , joining the board of directors at Service Systems International Ltd where he sits alongside an old colleague , chairman of the board Sam Goodner . |
| 25 | ‘ I hope he belongs to a good club . ’ |
| 26 | He belongs to a new owner . |
| 27 | He insists on a quick hug from his young son Jordi who accompanies him to some of the major events where Courier plays . |
| 28 | And he sleeps in a normal bed . |
| 29 | He sleeps in a normal bed all right . |
| 30 | They 're obviously saying well , he fits into a certain category , whereas I do n't . |