Example sentences of "he [vb -s] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his latest film scintillatingly entitled ‘ Dave ’ , he plays a duel role as US president and an ordinary Joe — or should I say Dave — picked out to help the country in crisis . |
| 2 | Cos he plays a bit of guitar , |
| 3 | Plus he has plenty of other work on the way : Bodies , Rest And Motion , an existential romantic comedy for the twentysomething generation in which he plays opposite Bridget Fonda ; and the low-budget Jumpin' At The Boneyard , in which he plays a Bronx street kid trying to straighten out his crackhead brother . |
| 4 | But look at someone like Jeff Beck ; he plays a Strat through a fuzzbox into a Marshall 50 head , and you ca n't mistake the fact that it 's him . |
| 5 | He plays a photographer who spins a sinister web to trap prosecuting attorney Sean Young , who believes him guilty of sex crimes . |
| 6 | I mean he plays a lot of croquet . |
| 7 | He became a household name after his role as the caddish Ralph Gorse in The Charmer — and even in those Lloyds Bank ads , he plays a smoothie with an eye for a pretty girl . |
| 8 | Even before he plays a note , he has the audience in the palm of his hand . |
| 9 | But he sells out every time he plays a show in Merseyside . |
| 10 | He plays a street artist , just one of many downtrodden but not downhearted characters getting by as best they can amid the urban squalor . |
| 11 | He plays a vampire hunter out to kill Dracula , played by Britain 's Gary Oldman . |
| 12 | While he discerns a bank of computers by the wall ( one student is typing up minutes of the monthly group meeting now in progress ) , Michael begins to feel a little more at home in this rather ramshackle world . |
| 13 | When the water boils , he swishes a bit around in the pot to warm it . |
| 14 | Yet the very specially acute sense of deprivation found in the shorter of the two versions to be examined here argues the recognition of the possibility of the presence of just such joy ; " absence is not non-existence , and we are therefore entitled to repeat , " " come , come , come , come : " " " and both Rolle 's meditations on the Passion are such powerful works precisely because he enacts a sense of the gap between the body of sin and the joy of God and a longing to close it through penitence and love . |
| 15 | Quickly he records a message of warning , but before he can launch it the Daleks locate and kill him . |
| 16 | He records a visit to the lead mines , carved stones , caves , Loch Finlaggan , and the duns where his description of the state of Dun Bhorairaig at that time is particularly valuable . |
| 17 | He records a visit to the lead mines , carved stones , caves , Loch Finlaggan , and the duns where his description of the state of Dun Bhorairaig at that time is particularly valuable . |
| 18 | He rubs a gout of Brylcreem with pipe-smoking palms , |
| 19 | If he grants a sublease for a term longer than the term of his own lease , the grant may take effect as an assignment of that lease ( contrast Milmo v Carreras [ 1946 ] KB 306 and Skelton ( William ) & Son v Harrison & Pinder Ltd [ 1975 ] QB 361 ) . |
| 20 | He turns a child 's palm upward , |
| 21 | My family will squeak with outrage when he turns a biologist 's eye on art and on drug abuse and suggests they are status indicators for age-old sexual selection . |
| 22 | ‘ He turns a father 's eye , naturally , on Bishop Malduin 's work . |
| 23 | Over the cobbles he clatters and clangs in the dark inn-yard ; And he taps with his whip on the shutters , but all is locked and barred : He whistles a tune to the window , and who should be waiting there But the landlord 's black-eyed daughter , |
| 24 | He whistles a tune to the window , and who shall be waiting there ? |
| 25 | Without naming anyone , he points a finger at a number of recent American gold medallists and shows surprise that the British drug testing programme produced no positive results for two years except in the case of pole vaulter Jeff Gutteridge . |
| 26 | He points a finger at my unspeakable carpet , which had escaped mention for many chapters and would continue to do so for those remaining . |
| 27 | He flies a plane in the same way he used to sack quarterbacks ! ’ |
| 28 | Discussing revolutionary situations , for instance , he remarks a trifle sadly that ‘ unless the revolutionary organisations have a conscious and adequate strategy ’ , which they frequently lack , opportunities for change will go unnoticed . |
| 29 | ‘ By God , he goes a degree beyond even what I had thought , ’ said Iago , roused and vindicated , ‘ to warn you not to put your trust in princes and councillors . |
| 30 | We put our own reasons onto those who are addicted to alcohol in order to explain why they drink so much ; " he 's a good chap , enjoying himself , having a bit of fun , relaxing , celebrating — but on occasions he goes a bit over the top " . |