Example sentences of "[subord] he [is] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robbie Gladwell has opened a new guitar workshop in Sudbury , Suffolk , where he is undertaking all nature of electric and acoustic guitar repairs ; plus setups for that ‘ problem ’ guitar , customising and custom building , etc . |
| 2 | And every day Berkowitz , 45 , was brought to court from Wandsworth prison , where he is serving three years for such an offence . |
| 3 | The dog just leaps on him right , so he 's wrestling this dog , and he 's screaming and the dog going , growling at him and everything |
| 4 | ‘ And maybe he 's guessed I 'll put you onto him , or that you 'll just work it out for yourselves , so he 's settling old scores while he can , before they 're warned , too . ’ |
| 5 | Jones is probably the best choice … ok so he s had disciplinary problems recently — this is no time to start making petty examples of players . |
| 6 | But once he 's grown enough spines it 's hoped he can live in a walled garden — a real case of wash and go . |
| 7 | Local Government minister Michael Portillo is n't expected to comment on Gloucestershire 's problems until he 's heard similar demands for help from twenty five other councils . |
| 8 | But Elvis was going through a very fat period , and I thought , ‘ Well , I 'll wait until he 's lost some weight , ’ because my childhood image was of a real animal of a person . |
| 9 | I shall certainly stop him inheriting until he 's learned some sense . |
| 10 | TACKLING your opponent very hard and then lifting him up with your hands under his armpits and pulling his hairs until he is screaming blue murder — and you say to the referee ‘ Well , I 'm only trying to help him ! ’ |
| 11 | Sometimes plays straight , sometimes starts to distort , hardly perceptible at first , then more and more , until he is producing wild expressionist shrieks or light medieval dances , then gradually the hymn reasserts itself until all is as it should be . |
| 12 | Jim Thorpe , who stands six feet tall , weighs 14½ stone , a man who looks like he 's hitting little plastic kiddies ' clubs when he stands over the ball , was 106th on the Tour in driving distance ? |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't mind if he 's getting some fun out of it . |
| 14 | It 's not as if he 's taking voluntary retirement . |
| 15 | We need to know if he 's taking any medication . ’ |
| 16 | He 's on the dole , lucky if he 's gets thirty pound a week . |
| 17 | Where 's your father if he 's seen real kangaroos ? |
| 18 | I wave some smoke away and ask if he 's selling roast chestnuts . |
| 19 | And I wonder if he 's put any oil on that door ? ’ |
| 20 | 1.15:WONDER MAN is a most exciting chasing prospect and I will be surprised if he is beaten this afternoon . |
| 21 | He suggested that in the days before his election Yeltsin had had to clarify and adjust his policy on a number of key issues , but commented : " If he is playing political games , then perhaps we are in for difficult times . " |
| 22 | Nor will he necessarily be able to prevent his share of the equity from being diluted even if he is offered pre-emptive rights ; he may not be able to afford to buy more shares but can not prevent the new issue being made unless he has voting control . |
| 23 | Some records are worthy of special comment at the beginning of this chapter for they are sources that every family and local historian must learn to use straight away if he is to gain any understanding of the period before the Industrial Revolution . |
| 24 | Mr Smith will need to find a few more if he is to become Prime Minister . |
| 25 | This exists simply because he must necessarily reveal aspects of a closed and somewhat secretive society to the outside if he is to pursue any ethnography at all . |
| 26 | Not the erm complication of of vehicles to the extent we saw with the motorcycle film just now , but this is erm again The the police car is staying well back cos he 's following this vehicle you can see a hundred and thirteen , well the speed 's gets up to about a hundred and forty in a moment as you 'll see . |
| 27 | No , no , no , oh no I ai n't having days off work cos he 's altering bloody garden |
| 28 | Not because he did n't love her any more , it 's cos he 's having this fling with this Diane . |
| 29 | To make progress each member is allowed to speak only once on any motion that is before the meeting unless he is given special permission by the Chairman . |
| 30 | Stephen Dent 's family have applied for an extension to Roman Rudyayev 's visa because he 's achieved remarkable results with their son . |