Example sentences of "[subord] he [is] [adv] [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While pregnant Senada Causevic and her four children begin to recover from their months of hell , Bob is mugging up on Russian so he is better able to share the fears and hopes of his new friends . |
| 2 | ‘ It must be , ’ she laughed , ‘ if he 's suddenly prepared to run his own errands ! ’ |
| 3 | If he 's very good looking , and/or a terrible flirt , you have to face the fact that unless you 're very self confident , sooner or later you may worry about him straying . |
| 4 | Hurst does n't look as if he 's very delighted to see me , either , thought Dalziel . |
| 5 | It is as if he is most careful to avoid reference to ideology because that would imply a determinacy that his analysis would have to confront . |
| 6 | If he is really concerned to increase the number of homes available to rent , why will he not recognise that of the 700,000 empty properties , 100,000 are in the council sector and 600,000 are privately owned ? |
| 7 | It was sent by a sad Manc git using my Id cos he 's too scared to use his own — if anyone wishes to reply to his infantile shite they can send them to him at the following address … |
| 8 | I do n't got time cos he 's so busy running these man management courses |
| 9 | Darius looks as if he 's stuck his eyes open with superglue , and because he 's too tired to stand waiting in the doorway he slouches in and says , ‘ Hi . ’ |
| 10 | He is very good , because he is most likely to drive . |
| 11 | There is a fascinating passage in Hebrews 7 ; 25 , where the Lord Jesus is said to be able to ‘ save to the uttermost those who come to God by him , because he is always alive to make intercession for them ’ . |
| 12 | Rival skippers have always agreed that Ian , who plays for Veryan , near Truro , Cornwall , could bat with a runner because he is only able to walk . |
| 13 | Many an anti-dog man joins the ranks of dog lovers because he is too weak to resist the demands of beloved children , but in Wexford 's household the demands had never been more than half-hearted , so he had passed through this snare and come out unscathed . |
| 14 | SICK Belfast baby Caolan McDonald is to return home from hospital in England because he is too weak to undergo a transplant operation , his family said today . |
| 15 | And , at the end of this act we are shown how his ambition has led to another theme , that of appearance and reality , where Macbeth is told by his wife to conceal his thoughts and appear to his guests to be the perfect host whereas he is really supposed to wait for the time to kill the king . |
| 16 | While he is generally careful to uphold the Politeness Principle , he wishes above all to preserve his own negative face . |
| 17 | Leavis , however , professes to be unworried about any historical or conceptual vagueness , since he is more concerned to seize the opportunity and mobilize the symbolic force of " cultural tradition " in order to " check and control the blind drive onwards of material and mechanical development , with its human consequences . |
| 18 | Questions will be asked , even if they are not asked publicly , about whether he is physically fit to continue in office . |
| 19 | The question is whether he is also entitled to threaten her and by this threat procure intercourse with her . |
| 20 | It is up to the testator 's son to decide whether he is sufficiently satisfied to do what his father suggested . |
| 21 | Any purchaser from the wife is not concerned with this , as he is merely interested to check that the wife alone has power to transfer the property to him . |
| 22 | If A tells his grown-up son , B , that he will stop B's allowance if B marries C , A may succeed , as is no doubt his intention , in depriving C of a profitable marriage , but he commits no tort against her , for he is perfectly entitled to stop B's allowance for any reason . |