Example sentences of "he [is] [verb] a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The official said : ‘ He is taking a 10 day holiday with his family in Italy . |
| 2 | DR AHMAD OSMAN SIRAJ : a 46-year-old senior lecturer at the University of Khartoum 's medical school , he is serving a 15 year sentence for his alleged involvement in a plot to overthrow the military government of General Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir . |
| 3 | He 's survived a ninety minute spin in a washing machine , and apart from bruised ears and a broken claw , seems none the worse for wear . |
| 4 | ‘ He has won two championship medals , he 's played a million games and he 's got the character to overcome setbacks like the one at Ibrox . ’ |
| 5 | On top , he 's given a 3 500 housing allowance , and can look forward to a pension of up to 19 500 pounds a year . |
| 6 | And , of course , he 's so revered for this sleight-of-hand that he 's constructed a two and a half hour show to appeal mainly to his legions of cultish disciples who 've been waiting quite a few years for him to make sense again . |
| 7 | He 's flying a two seater from his base at Nympsfield on the edge of the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire . |
| 8 | He 's lost a dozen in a decade and this goes some way towards explaining his surprisingly philosophical attitude to his own bad luck . |
| 9 | Okay he 's doing a hundred miles an hour . |