Example sentences of "he [vb -s] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'E needs a good romp in the fields , ’ and he looked at Willie , and I reckon you do an' all , he thought . |
| 2 | 'E sounds a right dopey git if yer ask me . |
| 3 | Before him lies a dark , trackless , formless , chaotic field , which he probes with the antennae of his techniques and ideas , seeking by his action to transform it into pure presence . |
| 4 | But as the campaign against him reaches a new and fierce intensity , he admitted : ‘ I ca n't feel any lower than I do now . |
| 5 | There is no doubt that the candidate who assists the examiner by carrying out the administrative instructions given to him creates a good impression . |
| 6 | But the solicitor for the three cleared men says he doubts a civil action would have succeeded . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's good fun , and he plays a decent game of tennis . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He and Lewis are also set to work together again this year in California , in which he plays a serial killer . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | At night he plays a pattering hose , fanned |
| 13 | He gets terribly bad tempered if he plays a bad shot . |
| 14 | ‘ He plays a different type of game to Steve Davis . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | it is a funny film , you seen Roxanne where he plays a fucking funny , he has to think of twenty pornographic , the only women who can satisfy two by two women at once its got here , nature loving , too much , really love little bee , give a mat to sit on and stuff like that , your gon na fucking break that in a minute , time have you Mark ? |
| 17 | ‘ His weakness , ’ the critic C. A. Lejeune perceptively remarked , ‘ is that he plays a lone hand . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He turns a reproachful face on her for admitting what kind of a girl she is . |
| 21 | He goes a dirty red colour and wriggles about as much as he can considering his condition , and I wonder if he 's shy , but then he explodes and I see that it 's anger , not modesty . |
| 22 | He goes a little bit further down the road . |
| 23 | He appreciates a good attempt at an answer even if the final result is not " correct " . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He uses an attractive mezza voce in Auf Flügeln des Gesanges , and in Gruss ( a song that was a favourite of Jenny Lind 's ) he displays a beautiful legato line . |
| 26 | When needed , he displays a fine and intimate grasp of the Hebrew scriptures , and its rhythms and images ( not least its parallelism — a form of free verse — the versets of the Bible ) suffuses his work . |
| 27 | As an alternative , he offers a reasoned defence of the demands of community understood in more traditional terms . |
| 28 | He offers a concise history of recent work , indicates clearly what issues remain unresolved and suggests the directions of future research . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |