Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb -s] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If we shake someone and ask him if he was asleep he usually has a definite answer . |
| 32 | But whether a reckless driver hits a pedestrian depends upon the presence of the pedestrian at the point where he recklessly passes a red light . |
| 33 | ‘ He sure has a good touch with those kids , does n't he ? ’ |
| 34 | He also denies a further charge of conspiring to the unauthorised modification of computers and of conspiring to the unauthorised access of computer material . |
| 35 | ( As the autistic Raymond/Rain Man , he also manages a few unharmonious bars . ) |
| 36 | He also proposes a one-for-10 bonus issue of warrants to subscribe for shares at 185p . |
| 37 | He also plays a Django-type line , similar to the phrase shown in fig 9 , in which we see a descending series of trills ( fast hammer-on/pull offs ) . |
| 38 | He also uses a modern reproduction piano , which is a shade safer than Linda Nicholson 's refurbished old piano . |
| 39 | He also gets a new team- mate in Prein , who will race an RS250 with HRC kit . |
| 40 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 41 | He also contributes a fine weekly music column to The Telegraph . |
| 42 | He also cites a recent disastrous attempt to build a golf course at Vung Tau , 120 km south-west of the city , where a Taiwanese company clear-felled forest before abandoning the site on the grounds that it was too windy for golf . |
| 43 | But he also recognises a genuine wish among a notoriously apathetic electorate for an alternative to the failed sectarian system , upon which even the Alliance must rely for its existence . |
| 44 | He also achieves a subtle contrast between the sensuous country exteriors and the darkened studio — every camera movement is beautiful and necessary and the playing fastidious , with Mr Piccoli virtually becoming the obsessed artist before the viewer 's eyes . |
| 45 | ‘ Kenny 's contributions and success at Crewe impressed us greatly and he also has a reasonable knowledge of the local non-League scene . |
| 46 | He also has a great pair of extremely shabby second-hand jeans that look brilliant ! ’ |
| 47 | He also has a great pair of hands . |
| 48 | He also has a good talent for writing songs . ’ |
| 49 | He also has a full-time administrator and researcher who looks after the books , and a part-time secretary . |
| 50 | He also has a new-found ability to ‘ read ’ people . |
| 51 | He also has a smart answer to the real big question about abduction — why exactly do these super-intelligent beings travel halfway across the universe in hi-tech spaceships to stick blunt instruments up people 's bottoms ? |
| 52 | He calls himself a ‘ stopper , ’ with his greatest ability being able to pounce on anything earthbound that should cross his territory , but he also has a fine pair of catching hands , and he took many full-blooded cuts and slashes through the expansive point area during the World Cup . |
| 53 | He is obviously serious about it as he also has a 1926 3 litre Bentley which he is upgrading to 4.5 to race . |
| 54 | He also has a wonderful dog called Merlin . |
| 55 | He also has a grown-up son . |
| 56 | He also sees a rosy future for superstores : ‘ Superstores wo n't take the same percentage of the market as in the US , but that 's not to say they wo n't do well — they will . |
| 57 | He also carries a magic bow , as described below . |
| 58 | He also shows a healthy disrespect for the over-specialised , and is as much at home with the nuts and bolts of medical practice as he is with basic research in the laboratory . |
| 59 | By repeatedly mentioning the example of the access to the Duddon and naming very few other rivers which may be used he probably paints a truer access picture than he intends . |
| 60 | He carefully avoids a Kantian reduction to a knowing subject founded on self-reflection or a Hegelian reduction to a universal subject constituted as the absolute spirit of history . |