Example sentences of "[conj] he [is] [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Singer , for example , although he is here questioning the alleged rights of the human foetus , admits that it must have a potential that |
| 2 | Jacklin reports that he 's still hitting the ball well and ‘ feels hungry ’ again . |
| 3 | If you see a picture of a golfing great with his hands well in front of the clubhead at impact , you can be sure that he is either playing the type of shot I have just mentioned or he could be squeezing the ball out of a tight lie . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | I 'll have a look , but I 've had him doing actual words , like first words er , you know erm , Ben and large and in and out and just the , the easy words and Luke and his own name , so he is already got the idea that when you write a letter you ca n't just write any letter , you 've got to make letters say something either as erm , as an alphabet or in the form of words , so of course she says to , would you all like to write me a sentence , well he 's already passed that stage , he thinks himself well I ca n't write a sentence , what he knows as a sentence consists of words that make sense , so they 're all sitting there going a N , N , N , Q , R , S , N , T , T , and they 're saying a sentence like I went to the shops with my nanny , well Alex has already passed that stage , he knows that that is n't sensible , so he must of turned to her and he said , I ca n't write like that , my mummy will shout at me |
| 6 | By arguing , amongst other radical things , for limited liability , the new chairman could change that — and he is already making the right noises . |
| 7 | ‘ Ah , Beel , he is a very good chef and he is now preparing the menu for tomorrow ; you like the food ? ’ |
| 8 | He has the talent to play anywhere , and he is gradually accepting the situation . |
| 9 | These days Konitz plays everything from standards to samba — he 's recently recorded a wonderfully relaxed album with Brazilian accompanists , Lee Konitz in Rio — and he 's shortly to tour the UK . |
| 10 | On a lot of it , Hooker 's a loner once more , and he 's plainly relishing the job . |
| 11 | He 's there , still curled up and still secured by the tape , but he must have wriggled his way through to here while you were down in the cellar ; he 's knocked over a table with the phone on it and he 's just turning the phone the right way up as you enter the lounge and see him . |
| 12 | His constituency is close to the infamous Blackbird Leys estate and he 's also running the new campaign … |
| 13 | Terribly fast , it was er , er , over his left shoulder going down there like a rate of knots and he 's now telling the other slips , putting his left hand showing where it might have gone . |
| 14 | Last night television 's aristocracy came together to pay homage to his service … still unfinished by the way , attempts to retire have failed and he 's still running the Sunday evening programme Highway with Harry Secombe . |
| 15 | He finds it adds a surreal quality to the ‘ dream ’ collages , and he 's recently used the process to create a CD cover for a band called David Cross ( ex-King Crimson ) . |
| 16 | He finds it adds a surreal quality to the ‘ dream ’ collages , and he 's recently used the process to create a CD cover for a band called David Cross ( ex-King Crimson ) . |
| 17 | Yes erm it was obvious because if he 's already told the man he 's going to move forward , to handcuff him erm he will not move forward to a person with his gun er in his hand . |
| 18 | Sometimes it 's as if he 's constantly rejecting the first idea that comes into his mind , and plays the second instead . |
| 19 | he ferreted it out , but I , you know I said to Mike well if er , if he 's only chewing the paper |
| 20 | An employee may prefer to do this if he is already paying the maximum 15 per cent cent in employee contributions ( including AVCs ) or to maximise tax-free cash . |
| 21 | His seat is secure but he is also seeing the man who defeated him for the party leadership on the way to another victory for the Tories . |
| 22 | But he is also posing the problem of how subscribers to that view accommodate examples where ‘ oral ’ thinking is found in literate societies . |
| 23 | ‘ Every sort of potato , ’ Spencer laughs , ‘ roast potatoes , mashed potatoes , baked potatoes … ’ his humour shines through constantly , of course he knows what a narrow escape it was , but he is well passed the haunting of it . |
| 24 | One lifeguard said , ‘ Ace may not have ridden the biggest wave , but he 's sure got the biggest mouth . ’ |
| 25 | He was paying thirty pounds a month ground rent into a management fund , but he 's since discovered the money was n't getting through to his former landlord , Titcombe Developments in Marlborough . |
| 26 | Yeah , but he 's only watching the |
| 27 | And I would like to make another quote if I may , he was the one that talked about Scotland being the land of cakes , and brother Scots , where the women made the cakes but he 's only addressing the brother Scots . |
| 28 | ‘ But he 's never made the career he could have done . |
| 29 | but he 's still doing the raffles ? |
| 30 | Because he 's really agitating the situation . |