Example sentences of "and he [vb -s] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thing is , he was christened that way , and he hates the whole moviestar bit . |
| 2 | Revenge would be sweet for him tonight , and he feels the current Rangers side can make the final . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , and he feels the same way . |
| 4 | And he suspects the stolen car has now long disappeared across the border . |
| 5 | As they sway and raise their arms , he sees thirty pairs of large breasts and he imagines the same quantity of round thighs rolling and separating under the cassocks which he has had sent from Raleigh . |
| 6 | Nature is grinding down man , or will grind down man , has no regard to him , is cruel , all this kind of language is used of nature , and he depicts the only posture of the rational man as a kind of , if such a thing is possible , a rather emotional Stoicism . |
| 7 | And he plays the menacing scenes that follow over-lightly , winking at his wife , giving his half smile and making quips . |
| 8 | John Carwelti argues that certain types of formula-stories , ‘ Adventure , Mystery and Romance ’ , must be judged by their own standards and conventions and he deplores the literary assumption that this type of writing is ‘ subliterature ’ . |
| 9 | Faldo spent almost 30 hours between Thursday and Sunday either playing , hitting shots on the range or working on his putting and he hopes the back-breaking labours pay off next weekend . |
| 10 | That 's what the Deutsche Bundespost Telekom said , but the reality is even worse : Postal Minister Wolfgang Boetsch said on the radio that he would not accept the plans to raise the cost of local calls from 1995 — and he gets the final say . |
| 11 | ‘ Mickey has played at the highest level and he gets the same thing out of the game as he has always done . |
| 12 | Luke is most anxious to make this clear and he uses the Greek word parthenos twice in the opening sentence . |
| 13 | His uncle was fend of French fries and he tells the empty corridor for the hundredth time that they are called chips over there and they are eaten with vinegar . |
| 14 | Krimsky was well placed to observe key individuals and groups in action and he tells the local story vividly . |
| 15 | Right and he says the wider gap , so you write it on the order form , right , it 's part of the order form close |
| 16 | And they want the telephone number and he says the best thing is to ring us . |
| 17 | And he does the same job as you ? |
| 18 | As the bemused straight man , however , Broderick does his usual competent job and he handles the sentimental scenes showing the growing father-son relationship between Kellog and Sabatini with real skill . |
| 19 | Over a lifetime these two strategies yield almost the same number of offspring but an older male clearly needs the quicker success and he takes the greater risk . |
| 20 | His reading of the First Symphony is second to none and he includes the first movement exposition repeat . |
| 21 | And he supports the long-floated idea that road tax should be scrapped , with the equivalent revenue drawn from petrol duty . |
| 22 | Lester Piggott provided the York magic yesterday and he looks the biggest danger here on another unlucky Goodwood horse , Mudaffar . |
| 23 | In an interview with The Independent , he aligns himself with critics of the proposed timetable of change in the National Health Service , and he questions the Prime Minister 's ‘ sceptical ’ approach to the European Community . |
| 24 | And he mistrusts the public attention mountaineering offers , preferring to stay out of the limelight . |
| 25 | Unix must be leveraged into a volume player attractive to ISVs and he believes the generic Unix brand UI recently proposed is part of the answer ( UX No 415 ) . |
| 26 | By the time he retired from his post eight years later 8,000 new jobs had been created and he believes the artistic opportunities presented by Theatr Clwyd played its part . |
| 27 | There is no reason , and he declines the verbal advice he has been given by his Inspector , so this has now become an ‘ order ’ . |
| 28 | Rambo the lamb is now a week old … and he dwarfs the other youngsters around him . |
| 29 | His eyes resemble dish-telescopes that seem to look right through his friends , and he sees the psychic energy people emit as an astrophysicist 's radio-telescope ‘ sees ’ sounds bounced off distant galaxies . |
| 30 | And he sees the promo-tional side of playing for Leeds as almost as important as the game itself . |