Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] he [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Ernie will be very pleased to know that he 's not required to er , star this morning . |
| 2 | A twelve year old makes a wish at a fair ground fortune telling booth that he could be big , and the next morning his astonished to find that he 's fully grown |
| 3 | He looks like he 's never seen an iron . ’ |
| 4 | Mr Brown 's girlfriend is dying and he 's really cut up about it . |
| 5 | A lecturer normally owns the copyright in any book or article he writes because he is primarily employed as a teacher and not as a writer of books and articles , even though his employer may encourage this . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm insulted that he 's even talking about me on the tape — and I 'm sure the other players he 's mentioned feel the same . |
| 7 | She makes no acknowledgement of their affair in public and he understands that he is not to refer to it with these new acquaintances . |
| 8 | Mr Barre 's writ is so limited that he is disparagingly known as the mayor of Mogadishu . |
| 9 | If the process is to be continued , I hope that his Prime Minister will ensure that he is there to continue it . |
| 10 | Although the cause of the fire is n't yet known , one of the men who owns the farm says that he 's not ruling out an arson attack . |
| 11 | He says that he 's always wanted to work as an artist at Slimbridge — it 's a lifetimes dream come true . |
| 12 | He is probably also right when he says that he is only seen as a Spanish artist because his interest lies in Spanish art , instead of in French art ‘ like everyone else' : in other words , within the accepted categories there is no room for a Mexican who is interested in Spanish art . ' |
| 13 | The liquidator , Chris Ashurst of Brighton-based Neville Russell , says that he is still looking for a missing £1m of stock and is keen to hear from anyone who bought OCT machines from anywhere other than the London direct-sales team , or the liquidators ' auction held in Bristol . |
| 14 | He is ill , and I hope that he is now improving . |
| 15 | If the pilot then rolls out of the turn to fly straight and level he may feel that he is now turning in the opposite direction , and compensatory eye movements which involuntarily accompany such a feeling may blur vision and make attitude checking difficult , with possible disorientation and loss of aircraft control . |
| 16 | The Minister of Agriculture has said that he is not going to have land set-aside in Britain so that the rest of Europe can produce more' . |
| 17 | So when he maintains that because we are , Truth or God is , or that God is the sum total of life , it could be argued that he is not presenting us with some kind of cosmological argument for the existence of God and that it is not his purpose to argue from the world to God . |
| 18 | We may assume that he is not spying on players and so must be on the lookout for managerial talent . |
| 19 | ‘ You ca n't look to just one man to have the freedom to create because what happens if he 's not doing it or is marked out of the game ? ’ |
| 20 | The two companies ' more obvious synergies , claims le Quement , extend to design and he 's already given free access to Renault 's Billancourt design centre to all Volvo 's senior designers . |
| 21 | Now what happens when he 's just starting off from home ? |
| 22 | I want to see if he 's actually doing anything . |
| 23 | Some fences can be deceiving from a distance , so the horse must be given clear aids as to what to expect so he is not taken by surprise . |
| 24 | At this point in his work , Freud would be much more acceptable to modern thinkers , for he shows that he is not deriving man 's destructiveness from a similar instinct in animals . |
| 25 | Will the Home Secretary confirm that he is about to launch a £5 million campaign involving the glitzy television commercials that have been his trademark in every office of state that he has held ? |
| 26 | The equation of knowledge with ‘ what is called Western thought , the thought whose destiny is to extend its domains while the boundaries of the West are drawn back ’ involves the very kind of assumption that Derrida is interrogating — and this is the reason for his constant emphasis on its being the knowledge of the West ; in the same way Foucault also emphasizes that he is specifically discussing the ‘ Western episteme ’ . |
| 27 | We 're told that he 's not falling behind or there 's no real problem with it . |
| 28 | It 's dangerous to assume that he 's necessarily working in his own territory . |
| 29 | Completely directionless and improvised , Shore acts like he 's just coming off some Quaalude-fuelled lost weekend . |
| 30 | He says he does n't know what happened and he 's never received anything officially in writing from anyone . |