Example sentences of "and he [vb -s] the [adj] " 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 | He noted that the Lakenvelder has a black tongue , whereas black-and-whites have pink tongues ( the same is true of other belted European cattle and also some colour-pointed animals and , oddly , Jerseys ) , and he quotes the eminent Dutch geneticist , Dr A.L. |
| 5 | And he suspects the stolen car has now long disappeared across the border . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And he plays the menacing scenes that follow over-lightly , winking at his wife , giving his half smile and making quips . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Mickey has played at the highest level and he gets the same thing out of the game as he has always done . |
| 13 | Luke is most anxious to make this clear and he uses the Greek word parthenos twice in the opening sentence . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Krimsky was well placed to observe key individuals and groups in action and he tells the local story vividly . |
| 16 | It 's an introduction cos this is given to a member of staff and he says the first the question is can develop and train all staff . |
| 17 | Right and he says the wider gap , so you write it on the order form , right , it 's part of the order form close |
| 18 | And they want the telephone number and he says the best thing is to ring us . |
| 19 | If you notice , when he speaks he tends to run words together towards the end of sentences and he does the same when he writes . ’ |
| 20 | And he does the same job as you ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And he describes the last 14 years of his life dedicated to overcoming the bitterness accumulated since the ‘ rubber barons ’ first reached the region , bringing with them thousands of labourers from Brazil 's impoverished Northeast , who they set to work as Seringueiros in lands wrested from the Indians . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | His reading of the First Symphony is second to none and he includes the first movement exposition repeat . |
| 25 | And he supports the long-floated idea that road tax should be scrapped , with the equivalent revenue drawn from petrol duty . |
| 26 | Lester Piggott provided the York magic yesterday and he looks the biggest danger here on another unlucky Goodwood horse , Mudaffar . |
| 27 | In Britain , the most important work on the placement of tonic stress is Halliday ( 1967 ) ; his term for this is ‘ tonicity ’ , and he adopts the widely-used linguistic term ‘ marked ’ for tonicity that deviates from what I have called ( for the sake of simplicity ) ‘ normal ’ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And he mistrusts the public attention mountaineering offers , preferring to stay out of the limelight . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |