Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He doubts low level flying is to blame . |
| 2 | The jongleur is left to watch over some souls , but is approached by St Peter , with whom he plays two different games of dice , gambling for the souls . |
| 3 | He records stout English resistance too , and while his work was undoubtedly intended to be dramatic , it is difficult to discern any purpose beyond that . |
| 4 | There is Sydney Carton with one foot on the steps of the guillotine ; Oliver Twist with his empty plate held out ; Micawber with his back to the fire ( and to the wall ) enunciating his economic philosophy ; Uriah Heep , hunched as he rubs one humble hand over the back of the other . |
| 5 | Ollie 's final offering looks destined to be , typically , as an uncredited sideman on Ayers ' ‘ Still Life With Guitar ’ on which he contributes one electric solo on the opening track and some acoustic bits and pieces including a self-penned instrumental . |
| 6 | He offers two remarkable theses that describe this trans-historical form : |
| 7 | There is a great moral self-confidence and a common sense in the writing — as when he offers one possible explanation far why so many people , reading Paradise Lost , have supposed Satan to be the ‘ hero ’ . |
| 8 | If that does not suffice , he offers some unconventional advice … |
| 9 | He understands all these things . |
| 10 | He associates this postwar trend with the devaluation of a proper linguistic and historical discipline capable of searching out " the meaningfulness of the text in its historical complexity " . |
| 11 | He thinks another fiscal crisis like the one he was called in to deal with can be expected to force the issue within a few years . |
| 12 | Maybe he thinks big bad Deane will help if things get too rough ! |
| 13 | Maybe he thinks this strange limey with the psychedelic shirt will slip the golden gooselet some crack in a John Belushi scenario . |
| 14 | Sometimes you feel like Winston Smith in 1984 when he corners this old guy in pub and tries to find out what it was like in the days before the revolution . |
| 15 | ( This is close to Ritchie 's position , but not identical since he neglects this last point and puts the dog too hastily in the grave . ) |
| 16 | Thus a chef is not a good chef and a production manager is not fulfilling his role if he neglects this vital aspect . |
| 17 | THE way forward for WBO super-middleweight champion Chris Eubank should now be clear enough — as long as he beats highly-rated American Tony Thornton in tomorrow 's Daily Mirror-sponsored fight in Glasgow . |
| 18 | He holds four national titles , three with Baxter . |
| 19 | Mr O'Neill does not disguise the fact that he holds strong personal targets . |
| 20 | He holds some old-fashioned values to be self-evident , and they have informed his view of Iraq 's actions . |
| 21 | ‘ He arouses intense sexual curiosity , ’ agrees Julian Clary . |
| 22 | The values of ‘ objectivity ’ , ‘ taste ’ and French ‘ clarté ’ , which Picard claims to uphold , and in the name of which he defends traditional academic criticism , are ultimately political . |
| 23 | ‘ You can see why he has that odd name — that peculiar nose with its heart-shaped blob of white fur on the very end . ’ |
| 24 | I 'm sure he would , but he has that greater degree of influence because of who he is . |
| 25 | Kirishima is nothing like Dana , but he has that male charisma which makes me want to lie in his arms — I feel safer just gloating over his superb body on the television screen . |
| 26 | The trouble is that he is not a natural core forward , which is partly why he has been shifted from lock , but neither has he as yet convinced too many that he has that instinctive reaction in terms of man and/or ball which enables the born flanker to do his stuff . |
| 27 | He is quick and , like Underwood , he has that special sense of where the action will be . |
| 28 | Besides , he has all this things here . ’ |
| 29 | He 's half way frew his forf punnet , he turns to me and says he ca n't fink why he has all these troubles with his skin ! " |
| 30 | He has one great ambition : to be leader of a democratic Hungary . |