Example sentences of "[subord] he is [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The account given in this book , based on the constructional meanings , enables us to give answers to these questions : Why does Oliver imagined her red-haired have two different meanings , one where he is trying mentally to change the lady 's image , and the other where he wonders what sort of person he is going to meet ) ? |
| 2 | Big Tweedy 's was a replica of the goal scored by Carlos Alberto in the 1970 World Cup Final so he is walking around feeling very pleased with himself this morning ! ’ |
| 3 | If he is going down to defeat , as I suspect he is , he is doing it in style . |
| 4 | The owner may contest the Repairs Notice because he is determined not to relinquish ownership . |
| 5 | Now he 's there it should almost be like a holiday because he is required only to do what he is good at — getting tight on the opposition and setting up England 's creative players . |
| 6 | The radio sketches that Galton and Simpson created for Tony Hancock in the mid-1950s are a back-street version of the same rueful joke : the hero , discomforted by every encounter , gets it wrong when he is trying hardest to get it right . |
| 7 | By all accounts Milton is a bit of a lunatic at home — particularly when he is taken out exercising . |