Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be noteá though that he crosses one boundary , from graveyard to dream , but not the next ; when he tries to swim the river to Heaven at the end of the poem he is halted and woken before he reaches the water . |
| 2 | He hates this kind of talk . |
| 3 | He hates cold kipper , does Bidwell . |
| 4 | Unexpectedly three of the seven items are of Mozart-an early little sonata which he magicks into the status of masterpiece , as well as the late B minor Adagio and Rondo in D. The best-known of Schubert 's Moments Musicaux , the little F minor , is given a chirpily personal reading , before he tackles three Liszt pieces , the Fantasy based on Schubert 's Serenade as well as the Valses-Caprices nos 6 and 7 . |
| 5 | Jim'£s chances of winning are tremendous when he plays each point as though it was match point . ’ |
| 6 | There is a small , and often fatal , time lapse before he plays each shot , as he recalls the instructions concerning grip , feet placement , racquet position and so on . |
| 7 | He wanders lonely valleys and isolated copses , where he plays enticing music on his flute . |
| 8 | He plays great guitar which is inspirational , plus no-one seems to be able to get the sound of the upright bass down quite like he does … ’ |
| 9 | He plays central defender at Lyn but also have played some games up front — he has played wide back , midfielder and attacker on our national team . |
| 10 | Though his current technique is based on the battle against fast bowling ( he is moving back rather than across in an attempt to eliminate his Achilles heel , the lbw decision ) , he plays slow bowling with rare arrogance . |
| 11 | Though his current technique is based on the battle against fast bowling ( he is moving back rather than across in an attempt to eliminate his Achilles heel , the lbw decision ) , he plays slow bowling with rare arrogance . |
| 12 | If not chasing a ball , he plays another game , this time it is Chess . |
| 13 | He plays smart tennis on the move . ’ |
| 14 | Damien Amos returns to work in the Design Studio after a two year break into the music business : He plays bass guitar with a group that recently recorded an album . |
| 15 | Bardul has a small stove with a chimney set into one flue here , where he brews Lustrian coffee ( he has many sealed tins of this here ) and cooks whatever he can find to eat . |
| 16 | He signs each person 's first name on the Muslim literature and hugs and is hugged by everybody from three-year-old tykes to their 80-year-old great-grandmas . |
| 17 | But if his practical measures are anything to go by , he may be thinking of the Libyan nation , for he discourages international marriage not only with English or American persons , but with Algerians , Egyptians and Palestinians . |
| 18 | And he goes , he lets her go and everything and he goes , and when they walk away he goes stupid bitch ! |
| 19 | He goes some way towards doing this in terms of what he calls ‘ the doctrine of abstract ideas ’ . |
| 20 | The Great Detective , for all that he figures in mere detective stories , is a figure to parallel with the great poet and the great scientist because in solving the sort of genuinely baffling mystery that confronts him , in fact he goes some way to solving a yet greater mystery , the mystery of the human personality . |
| 21 | Adrian Jones , who studied for a number of years at Parnham House , has made a similar cabinet , and in the September issue he displays that piece and talks bout his work as a successful furniture-maker . |
| 22 | He displays immature behaviour for a boy of 14 . |
| 23 | He offers another Kleenex . |
| 24 | the way he drives expressive colour passionately onto the canvas , the intensity of his brush and knife work leaves the viewer staggered . |
| 25 | HE DRINKS PRECIOUS WINE WITH FLIES IN |
| 26 | In seeking to develop managers he encourages each individual to develop a personal philosophy of management which can be implemented practically on a minute-by-minute basis each day of the working week . |
| 27 | He sleeps all day now though . |
| 28 | He sleeps all day now does n't he ? |
| 29 | Chatterton 's a very smart man and he understands small print . |
| 30 | He represents biology which represents the future as far as George is concerned he represents genetic engineering and a very frightening kind of vision |