Example sentences of "he [vb -s] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the solicitor for the three cleared men says he doubts a civil action would have succeeded . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ His weakness , ’ the critic C. A. Lejeune perceptively remarked , ‘ is that he plays a lone hand . |
| 4 | Hawkins ' qualities in this sort of role were deployed again ln a film that brought together the American director John Ford and former Ealing writer T. E. B. Clarke , Gideon 's Day ( 1959 , Gideon of Scotland Yard in US ) , where he plays a slightly muddled police officer who , in true English fashion , only reveals his mettle under pressure . |
| 5 | ‘ He plays a different type of game to Steve Davis . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He plays a vampire hunter out to kill Dracula , played by Britain 's Gary Oldman . |
| 10 | He and Lewis are also set to work together again this year in California , in which he plays a serial killer . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He gets terribly bad tempered if he plays a bad shot . |
| 13 | He plays a photographer who spins a sinister web to trap prosecuting attorney Sean Young , who believes him guilty of sex crimes . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He plays a street artist , just one of many downtrodden but not downhearted characters getting by as best they can amid the urban squalor . |
| 17 | At night he plays a pattering hose , fanned |
| 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 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Cos he plays a bit of guitar , |
| 22 | ‘ He 's good fun , and he plays a decent game of tennis . |
| 23 | Even before he plays a note , he has the audience in the palm of his hand . |
| 24 | But he sells out every time he plays a show in Merseyside . |
| 25 | I mean he plays a lot of croquet . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | Retired joiner Ted is not just a figurehead , as many presidents are he plays an active part in the running of the club and was recently honoured by the CIU and the club for completing 25 years in the post . |
| 28 | He plays an evil father in the Oscar-nominated British film Howards End and the vampire killer in Bram Stoker 's Dracula , both currently on general release . |
| 29 | Current release Howard 's End , in which he plays an evil father , also has been nominated for an Oscar . |
| 30 | 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 . |