Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [is] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 She spends Christmas wondering if Macho Man really is the pig he is made out to be .
2 When acting in a judicial capacity he is thrown back on his own resources , whereas in his ministerial capacity he is assisted by the staff of a major department of state .
3 See if my husband wants a hand with these bits of wood he 's plonking up against the wall !
4 At the moment he 's searching around for sponsors .
5 Films such as The Sleeping Tiger ( 1954 ) , where a psychologist 's efforts to reform the mugger he 's picked up off the street are subverted by his own drives and the desires of his wife , The Criminal ( 1960 , The Concrete Jungle in US ) , in which Stanley Baker plays a loner trapped between the violent prison system and the criminal underworld , or The Servant ( 1963 ) , in which butler is pitched against master , focus on tensions in British society much more interesting than anything opened up by Anderson 's contemporaries .
6 Look at the stuff he 's holding on to : he is n't selling any of his great Minimal works , his Carl Andres or Donald Judds , but those are works that are still climbing in value . ’
7 ‘ Oh yes , we shall have to see Brown , and hear whatever cock-and-bull story he 's cooked up for us . ’
8 She thinks he is not at all the great genius he is made out to be — just possesses a pleasing talent .
9 For some reason he is angered out of his normal self and clearly Ana is miserable .
10 ‘ I must say , I admire the way he 's soldiering on with the course , ’ said Melissa .
11 Now , after the acclaimed New Jack City , Ricochet is the second step in Ice-T 's master plan to unceremoniously usurp Eddie Murphy as black America 's biggest film star and clean up in Hollywood the way he 's cleaned up in rap : staying hip with his street following and making millions from the masses at the same time .
12 I wonder what time he 's coming back for his dinner then ?
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