Example sentences of "he [vb -s] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos he plays a bit of guitar , |
| 2 | But look at someone like Jeff Beck ; he plays a Strat through a fuzzbox into a Marshall 50 head , and you ca n't mistake the fact that it 's him . |
| 3 | I mean he plays a lot of croquet . |
| 4 | He became a household name after his role as the caddish Ralph Gorse in The Charmer — and even in those Lloyds Bank ads , he plays a smoothie with an eye for a pretty girl . |
| 5 | But he sells out every time he plays a show in Merseyside . |
| 6 | While he discerns a bank of computers by the wall ( one student is typing up minutes of the monthly group meeting now in progress ) , Michael begins to feel a little more at home in this rather ramshackle world . |
| 7 | Yet the very specially acute sense of deprivation found in the shorter of the two versions to be examined here argues the recognition of the possibility of the presence of just such joy ; " absence is not non-existence , and we are therefore entitled to repeat , " " come , come , come , come : " " " and both Rolle 's meditations on the Passion are such powerful works precisely because he enacts a sense of the gap between the body of sin and the joy of God and a longing to close it through penitence and love . |
| 8 | Quickly he records a message of warning , but before he can launch it the Daleks locate and kill him . |
| 9 | He records a visit to the lead mines , carved stones , caves , Loch Finlaggan , and the duns where his description of the state of Dun Bhorairaig at that time is particularly valuable . |
| 10 | He records a visit to the lead mines , carved stones , caves , Loch Finlaggan , and the duns where his description of the state of Dun Bhorairaig at that time is particularly valuable . |
| 11 | He rubs a gout of Brylcreem with pipe-smoking palms , |
| 12 | If he grants a sublease for a term longer than the term of his own lease , the grant may take effect as an assignment of that lease ( contrast Milmo v Carreras [ 1946 ] KB 306 and Skelton ( William ) & Son v Harrison & Pinder Ltd [ 1975 ] QB 361 ) . |
| 13 | Over the cobbles he clatters and clangs in the dark inn-yard ; And he taps with his whip on the shutters , but all is locked and barred : He whistles a tune to the window , and who should be waiting there But the landlord 's black-eyed daughter , |
| 14 | He whistles a tune to the window , and who shall be waiting there ? |
| 15 | Without naming anyone , he points a finger at a number of recent American gold medallists and shows surprise that the British drug testing programme produced no positive results for two years except in the case of pole vaulter Jeff Gutteridge . |
| 16 | He points a finger at my unspeakable carpet , which had escaped mention for many chapters and would continue to do so for those remaining . |
| 17 | He flies a plane in the same way he used to sack quarterbacks ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ By God , he goes a degree beyond even what I had thought , ’ said Iago , roused and vindicated , ‘ to warn you not to put your trust in princes and councillors . |
| 19 | We put our own reasons onto those who are addicted to alcohol in order to explain why they drink so much ; " he 's a good chap , enjoying himself , having a bit of fun , relaxing , celebrating — but on occasions he goes a bit over the top " . |
| 20 | He lights a cigarette for me , holding it in his mouth . |
| 21 | He lights a cigarette from the butt of the first . |
| 22 | In a word he offers a cornucopia of man 's hopes and experiences , his successes and his frustrations , set in Canada , but energised by a trans-historical and global outlook of classical mythology and biblical settings . |
| 23 | As I understand it , he offers a choice between the status quo and independence . |
| 24 | He offers a variety of accommodation . |
| 25 | He offers a view of the Gulf war that has become increasingly fashionable even though it is probably wrong . |
| 26 | The third main emphasis in his critique of the concept of the postmodern is to attempt to explain the hold exercised by a demonstrably deficient theory of culture and its dependence on a fundamentally irrationalist philosophy : which is to say he offers a politics of the postmodern . |
| 27 | He offers an interpretation of Greek drama , in come ways anticipating Hegel 's , which brings to the fore the question of tragic guilt . |
| 28 | This is virtually Nithard 's last word ; and he offers an explanation of Adalard 's power : " Caring little for the public good , he devoted himself to pleasing everyone . |
| 29 | He smokes and he drinks a lot of beer . |
| 30 | Perhaps he drinks a lot of beer . |