Example sentences of "he [vb -s] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the solicitor for the three cleared men says he doubts a civil action would have succeeded . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's good fun , and he plays a decent game of tennis . |
| 3 | Producer-director Arne Glimcher had tapped him for the role after catching his performance in Pedro Almodóvar 's Matador , in which he plays a melancholic bullfighter wannabe who faints at the sight of blood and gets dizzy watching clouds . |
| 4 | Ready for release is the Year Of The Comet , in which he plays a seductive villain , and he is currently working on The Son Of Pink Panther , at Pinewood , directed by Blake Edwards . |
| 5 | He and Lewis are also set to work together again this year in California , in which he plays a serial killer . |
| 6 | I did n't ring him because he plays a mean alto-sax , though he is one of the best reed men currently not working out of a studio in the Windward Isles ( wherever ) . |
| 7 | At night he plays a pattering hose , fanned |
| 8 | He gets terribly bad tempered if he plays a bad shot . |
| 9 | ‘ He plays a different type of game to Steve Davis . |
| 10 | The idea which has swallowed Kirillov is suicide , not suicide for the common cause of the quintet as Dostoevsky first proposed , but to achieve a metaphysical and religious purpose ; and thus he plays a big part in the transformation of a neat political generation-gap story into a larger , more complicated object . |
| 11 | ‘ His weakness , ’ the critic C. A. Lejeune perceptively remarked , ‘ is that he plays a lone hand . |
| 12 | He plays a short sample down the phone , an almost unintelligible blur May , a non-stop talker and tireless ambassador for techno , rolls his eyes in a resigned manner ’ I get every kid in the city ringing me up and I feel bad because I do n't have time to talk to them . ’ |
| 13 | AL PACINO is currently shooting Scented Woman , in which he plays a blind army veteran , Frank Slade , who goes to New York with the reluctant teenage boy assigned to care for him . |
| 14 | He turns a reproachful face on her for admitting what kind of a girl she is . |
| 15 | He goes a little bit further down the road . |
| 16 | He appreciates a good attempt at an answer even if the final result is not " correct " . |
| 17 | He displays a wide range of diplomatic skills such as always speaking the other person 's language , being acutely sensitive to customer needs and creatively expressing genuine appreciation for a job well done . |
| 18 | As an alternative , he offers a reasoned defence of the demands of community understood in more traditional terms . |
| 19 | He offers a concise history of recent work , indicates clearly what issues remain unresolved and suggests the directions of future research . |
| 20 | And he offers a telling counter-example : ‘ Because a work of art or some ancient monument is protected by law from injury , do we speak of the ‘ rights ’ of pictures or stones ? ’ ( 1976 : 182 ) . |
| 21 | But he offers a brilliant rendering of Do n't Put Your Daughter On The Stage , Mrs Worthington rising to heights of boiling , brick-red rage on ‘ She 's a vile girl and uglier than mortal sin . ’ |
| 22 | In describing laboratory methods he offers a clear account of the underlying scientific principles and practical techniques , followed by relevant material from case histories and objective assessment of advantages , limitations and future possibilities . |
| 23 | In his buoyant narrative style , his particularly exact , observant eye for detail , his confident concentration on a particular event coloured by emotion but not by an intensity of analysis , he offers a significant contrast to Conrad 's dense , probing accounts of similar events . |
| 24 | He was used to this sort of thing , he drives a big motorbike . |
| 25 | He rides a massive chariot pulled by three wolves , and swings his mighty axe Elf-Biter . |
| 26 | He befriends a battered child , stays faithful to Tess Truchart despite the show stealing advances of Madonna 's Breathless Mahoney and takes on an all-star super cast of grotesques that include Al Pacino and Dustin ‘ Mumbles ’ Hoffman . |
| 27 | He laughs a low laugh of relief . |
| 28 | Mageeba makes no concessions to the white political world yet he understands a great deal about it . |
| 29 | He represents a weak policy . |
| 30 | He represents a great noble of the Empire , perhaps even the Emperor himself . |