Example sentences of "he [vb -s] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But will he if the person facing him has the same weapon ? |
| 2 | Beside him stands the black guy . |
| 3 | Around him stretches the lush plain her armies have subdued . |
| 4 | From his first appearance as the languid young aristo to his final entrance as a surgical case in a wheelchair , Rupert Everett makes the character as much Harlequin as Mephistopheles , and the magnetic allure with which he endows him balances the brittle cynicism and affectation of a man who measures every word for effect . |
| 5 | But Mr Raisin says he doubts the Labour Party 's criticism that the budget itself is too small . |
| 6 | Thing is , he was christened that way , and he hates the whole moviestar bit . |
| 7 | He hates the old bill anyway . |
| 8 | And on MONDAY he tackles the 23-mile stretch to Lytchett Minster , with Bournemouth beckoning . |
| 9 | More than any other black member of the House , he plays the racist card . |
| 10 | If my list of cons against Alfieri seems great , it does not mean I dislike everything he does for as I 've said he plays the important role of introduction and conclusion which I like especially and count as a clever idea on the part of Miller . |
| 11 | He plays the French Horn . |
| 12 | What a top bloke — especially in the episode nicked off Star Trek when he plays the evil Brigadier with an eye patch from another dimension . |
| 13 | A further great grievance that exists in this force in the Division where I am is that the Section Sergeant dare not enter any Station while he is on duty unless he signs the main station book ; yet the plain clothes P.C.s and Detective Constables , and even uniform P.C.s can go into the Station as often as they think and there is no order that any of them must sign in and out . |
| 14 | February He turns the six-yard box into a cartoon strip . |
| 15 | But he discounts the German raid theory and thinks there was a British chemical warfare experiment which went wrong . |
| 16 | NEWTOWNABBEY mayor Alderman Arthur Kell will send a rocket into orbit this Saturday when he lights the first firework at the Valley Leisure Centre 's annual display . |
| 17 | Karajan himself lives more dangerously than his rivals , taking time to let ideas blossom rather then self-consciously pushing forward , and yet he displays the keenest sense of line . |
| 18 | But he displays the same choosiness in this area too : ‘ I find most of the things on television are pretty repetitive . |
| 19 | He offers the unassailable proposition that without money there can be no inflation . |
| 20 | It is only the man who enters civil society ( the ‘ public ’ sphere ) and , in that world , he represents the other family members . |
| 21 | In furtherance of these aims he represents the Modular Course on the Academic Board and its subcommittees . |
| 22 | With his compatriot colleagues — the already mentioned Kerle , Jacob Regnart ( c. 1540–1599 ) , Charles Luython ( C. 1557–1620 ) — and other composers in Prague , Jacobus Handl , ‘ Gallus vocatus , Carniolanus ’ ( 1550–91 ) and the remarkable Czech amateur Kryštof Harant z Polžic ( 1564–1621 ) , together with Giaches de Wert ( 1535–96 ) who settled in Italy , he represents the last flowering of the Netherland tradition in church music . |
| 23 | This is erm Nick and I said that erm it 's rather confusing here because on the one hand he represents the American dream boy because he 's young , he 's beautiful , he 's got his future ahead of him . |
| 24 | Erm but on the other hand and so it 's valid to say he represents the American dream yeah ? |
| 25 | Exactly , no yeah he represents the American dream . |
| 26 | Gin , we are told , is one of the purest spirits made , and juniper berries , the baies de genièvre or ginepro from which Geneva or gin derived its name , provide the characteristic flavouring which everyone who ever drank a glass of gin in their lives would recognize when he tastes the juniper-berry flavour in Provençal game terrines and certain Northern Italian sauces and stuffings for partridge and pheasant ; and eau de vie de genièvre is a spirit used in French and Belgian Ardennais regional cooking , so it seems extraordinary that people blanch at the suggestion that gin should go into the casseroles . |
| 27 | He thinks the criminal-justice system may be ‘ on the point of collapse ’ . |
| 28 | Rachel 's former fiance revealed that he thinks the health-conscious Vogue model was duped into taking the drug at the bash at Wavertree Recreation Club in Liverpool . |
| 29 | Kenner is a strong believer in digital recording techniques , although he thinks the greatest danger with hi-fi purism is that one starts splitting hairs . |
| 30 | Well he thinks the only way that modern will accept the rule of one person rather than another is if they think they 're somehow there as a result of their own action , so we 'll only accept the rule of erm our leaders if we think we put them there and we take them back again , we put them there and can recall them and this for Barry is the only merit that contemporary democratic policy democratic erm systems that it allows us to think of our rulers as having some legitimate claim to rule . |