Example sentences of "he be [verb] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was rubbing up and down as if he were titillating an unseen erogenous zone . |
| 2 | On the occasion of its 30th anniversary , the University of Novi Sad in Yugoslavia awarded him the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science ; and this month at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science he is to receive an Honorary DSc from the University of Wales . |
| 3 | erm ba basically i i I do n't think it 's that bad and I mean obviously he , he 's making the picture , I would say he 's making the picture out to be f far worse than it actually is because he , he is taking an extreme sort of left point of view so to speak . |
| 4 | ‘ so the customer knows that he is getting an excellent product proven to our own satisfaction . ’ |
| 5 | In Washington he is considered an ineffective legislator and not a nice man ( his latest scrape involved the allegation that he had sexually harassed a Peace Corps worker while on a jaunt to Africa ) . |
| 6 | The more adequate a man feels , the less likely he is to seek an outside sex partner in order to prove something to himself . |
| 7 | Although he is predicting an interesting encounter between the two sides on October 31 , he views the unavailability of Nick Farr-Jones as a big plus for Ireland . |
| 8 | He is leading an English team to compete in the first ever Irish staging of the Jack Charlton Trout Cup — an event which will take place at a lake near Bantry in County Cork on March 29 and 30 . |
| 9 | The marketer will have to understand and use the " right " language if he is to achieve an effective communication to the market . |
| 10 | A graduate chartered librarian with a full teaching qualification and working in schools is a teacher when he is engaged with a class , and mostly a librarian when he is devising an alphabetical subject index , and so on . |
| 11 | He 's waited an awful lomg time for his chance , and it seems the fans love Rocky . |
| 12 | He 's taught an awful lot of people , including myself , an awful lot of things . |
| 13 | He 's ruined an expensive coat and I 'll be seeking legal advice . ’ |
| 14 | He 's written an open letter to local MPs which includes frontline Ministers . |
| 15 | The DJ they call the Hairy Monster 's a little greyer than he once was , but he insists he 's starting an important new phase of his career . |
| 16 | I 'll stay one more night with Victor , because he 's got the spaghetti going and he 's bought an airbed , but I 'll be gone tomorrow . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's rented an old farmhouse right out in the middle of nowhere on the common , beyond your place and even more isolated , believe it or not . |
| 18 | He 's designed an airborne moth trap , bolted to the side of his microlight plane . |
| 19 | He 's designed an airborne moth trap , bolted to the side of his microlight plane . |
| 20 | Er he 's having an extra hour and then he 'll be home , what 's for tea ? |
| 21 | The old man 's surprisingly bright grey eyes held him and Hope knew that he was facing an honest man and felt bucked that his own present character was worthy of it . |
| 22 | He might think it best sometimes to pretend that he was enforcing an old and obsolete statute or a mischievous and silly precedent when he was really ignoring it . |
| 23 | And in March 1958 he travelled with his wife to Rome where he was to receive an honorary degree : it is a mark of his extraordinary fame that students lined the route to the university and shouted " Viva Eliot ! " as they drove by . |
| 24 | On April 18 , before leaving on official visits to European capitals , de Klerk announced that he was calling an all-party " peace summit " of political , community , church and business leaders on May 24 and 25 to seek an end to township violence . |
| 25 | The man 's face was white and mean and he was pointing an automatic pistol at Charles ' chest . |
| 26 | He was given an immediate Critics ' Award and a seat at the back . |
| 27 | In July he was given an Irish peerage as Viscount Fitzhardinge , and would have received an English title had the king not been conscious of hostility to his courtiers in the English House of Commons . |
| 28 | He was given an ancient , unreliable car and in this he made long journeys and addressed crowded meetings . |
| 29 | After 54 England Caps , Sir Stanley earned another cap when he was given an honorary doctorate by Keele University . |
| 30 | In 1984 he was given an honorary Academy Award for his ‘ unparalleled record of distinguished contributions to the motion picture art form . ’ |