Example sentences of "he [is] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E 's a terrible racking cough . ’ |
| 2 | Now Sidney , 'er 'usband , 'e 's a decent bloke , but 'e 's no oil paintin' . ’ |
| 3 | She could do a lot worse — 'e 's a good , steady man and 'e 's not given ti strong drink . ’ |
| 4 | 'E 's a good pair o' lungs , ’ she smiled , ‘ but 'e 's not very big . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ 'E 's a good sort , is Alf , ’ said Dolly , nodding gravely . |
| 6 | ‘ Since 'e 's bin in wiv that crowd from the Tunnel , though , 'e 's a changed boy . |
| 7 | ‘ 'E 's a spry ole thing , but he 's as soft as butter , ent you , ole boy ? ’ and he knelt down and ruffled his fur . |
| 8 | The midwife laid the little scrap in Tamar 's arms and said , ‘ 'E 's a lovely lad , Lady Lassiter. 'E 's not big , but 'e 's all the world ti grow in . ’ |
| 9 | 'E 's a fine specimen and good stock-getter and he 's unrelated ti these two . ’ |
| 10 | I knew 'e would like you , because you are a wonderful girl , and 'e is a wonderful man . |
| 11 | We know that the early Church was intoxicated with the experience of the Spirit , and the comparative silence of the Gospels about him is a great credit to their historical trustworthiness in not reading back the conditions of their post resurrection situation into the days of Jesus ' life . |
| 12 | Talking to him is a strange experience : he immediately establishes a close relationship . |
| 13 | ‘ Your husband may well be decent , kind and generous to you , but all you are to him is a decorative object . |
| 14 | Macbeth 's explanation of why they must kill Banquo for him is a perfect description of the tribute that vice pays to virtue : because of That is almost too explicit in its description of the gap between false surface and his true feelings , and in its affected , forced language ( ‘ to your assistance do make love ’ ) . |
| 15 | Behind him is a gay sight . |
| 16 | The Greece that these writers evoke for him is a whole culture , a mode of life in which there is no division between material and spiritual , gods and men : |
| 17 | Smith added : ‘ Losing him is a huge blow but with Gary Stevens back in the side and Dave McPherson fit , we have plenty of experience in defence . |
| 18 | Its not fair … he s a cheating bastard . |
| 19 | I think he s a good defender who was unfortunate last year to take so much stick . |
| 20 | He is a seasoned traveller as well as an agile ladder climber , often coming up to join us on the roof . |
| 21 | He is a dangerous batsman too . ’ |
| 22 | Where the person under disability wishes to be a plaintiff or applicant , before commencing proceedings , if he is a mental patient and a person is authorised by order of the Court of Protection to conduct the proceedings , then that person must file in the court office a sealed office copy of the Court of Protection 's order ( Ord 10 , r 2(a) ) . |
| 23 | He is a pizza-faced alien ! ’ |
| 24 | Modern historians are quite uncertain whether an individual of that name existed here and carried out the exploits attributed to him ; or whether he is a representative figure around whom have accreted the age-old memories of a people 's struggles to maintain inherited liberties in the face of alien subjection . |
| 25 | He is a witty , ruthless adventurer : a strange and exotic outsider in Rome , and a villain on the grand scale . |
| 26 | ( f ) Paragraph ( c ) covers cases where deception occurs before the debt is incurred , such as the accused falsely representing that he is a full-time student to obtain discount travel . |
| 27 | I settle to a large Lagavulin in relief , and watch Martin Stephenson illustrate just why he is a full-time professional and I am a dilettante moonlighting journalist with the eternal excuse that there might be a column in it . |
| 28 | ‘ But the fact is , he is a superb player and he should be playing for Arsenal . ’ |
| 29 | He is a superb champion . |
| 30 | ‘ His goal ratio is good — and he is a superb finisher . |