Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today he plays off a nine handicap , a great help when he is carrying the bag . |
| 2 | And let me quote Locke er here we are are we he says but submitting to the laws of any country , living quietly and enjoying privileges and protection under them , makes not a man a member of that society then he goes on a little bit further down nothing can make any man so but is actually entering into it by positive engagement and express promise and compact . |
| 3 | He holds out a sunburned arm . |
| 4 | Every once in a while he holds out a small portion of meat , which the Skeleton chews furiously and swallows , with the same lack of success as before . |
| 5 | On May 22nd ( the day following his terrible vow against Elfed ) he writes up a typical entry : ‘ Went to see As You Like It as performed by Form 4 . |
| 6 | He writes out a generous cheque and sends it off . |
| 7 | He has neither a running mate nor a campaign headquarters , but when he announced his bid he shot to the top of the polls . |
| 8 | As for Jimmy , he chooses from a handful of set comments , so he has n't a great deal to say . |
| 9 | The driver might admit he has n't a current certificate and the relevant conversation can be reproduced in the officer 's statement of evidence . |
| 10 | He has only a one-year contract and there have been differences with chairman Bob Murray , including the failure to sign Everton 's Ray Atteveld , the loss of Paul Bracewell after a contract dispute and a boardroom veto on selling £750,000 Gordon Armstrong to Southampton . |
| 11 | He has only a one-year contract and there have been differences with chairman Bob Murray , including the failure to sign Everton 's Ray Atteveld , the loss of Paul Bracewell after a contract dispute and a boardroom veto on selling £750,000 Gordon Armstrong to Southampton . |
| 12 | Erm number one strength Alan erm although he does n't see to eye T eye eye to eye with er a lot of the city institutions and a lot of the shareholders erm he he does know his business erm and he has quite a strong character , very forceful and . |
| 13 | Works by Hogarth hung in the gallery at Slains : the library contained ‘ a valuable numerous collection ’ , and Boswell renders one of his usual excellent off-the-cuff services to our understanding of eighteenth-century domestic arrangements : ‘ The noble owner has built of brick , along the square on the inside , a gallery , both on the first and second story , the house being no higher ; so that he has always a dry walk , and the rooms , to which formerly there was no approach but through each other , have now all separate entries from the gallery . ’ |
| 14 | Mark Todd often appears to be quite casual as he clocks up a fastest time of the day . |
| 15 | In Claude Berri 's latest film , ‘ Uranus ’ , he knocks back a whole bottle of wine without pausing for breath ; although he insists that it was merely coloured water , his fans believe otherwise . |
| 16 | He wants not a huge monument which would hardly be fitting but a small plaque somewhere in the village the plane narrowly avoided . |
| 17 | He sketches out a domed mountain with a pair of high corries and ledges that seem to form eyes and eyebrows , and a vertical crest of rock running down between them , passing a snowfield on either side … |
| 18 | At the age of 16 , alone in his uncle 's house in Madurai , he describes how a sudden terror of death overtook him , and he found himself dramatizing the occurrence of death . |
| 19 | He describes how a large body of data concerning planetary motion has been used to make an overall test . |
| 20 | He stocks his stores with fresh-faced young assistants to whom he hands down a rigid dress code like a strict father : no nail varnish , no high heels — no dark tights even . |
| 21 | He takes out a Danish pastry . |
| 22 | He lets out a piercing giggle that many have called infectious , but honestly , I would n't want to catch it . |
| 23 | Newry were without the services of Erroll Lutton as he sweats out a three match suspension , but the return of Stephen Garvey and the addition of Ritchie Nummy to Newry 's back line-up certainly seemed to work well . |
| 24 | ( By a statement he means roughly a declarative sentence as used , or as it might be used , on some particular occasion , so that indicator words like ‘ I ’ ’ this ' and ‘ now ’ are given a definite reference . ) |
| 25 | But when the fire team are training or tackling a blaze within the perimeter he puts on a red fireman 's helmet as a member of their support system . |
| 26 | It 's not just that he has withdrawn from the business of running a diocese , or that he walks abroad a great deal at night but is scarcely seen during the day , or that he often wo n't accept phone calls . |
| 27 | He conducts great concerts , and before long he will make the lame walk — and then he does just a good concert and people are disappointed . |
| 28 | He does n't a great deal with the , the guy cos he . |
| 29 | He pushes forward a pointless bishop 's pawn . |
| 30 | so , so he , he makes quite a big point out of that , you know er that , and then he obviously talks about other things , the flour drum erm you know which basically vulgar performances of |