Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next sequence — from an amateur video taken soon after the crash — showed him being cut out of a wrecked coach . |
| 2 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 3 | Marco would n't hear of him being put back in the cabin . |
| 4 | As a wipeout specialist myself , I could see him being torn apart by the turbulence , I could feel his bursting lungs and taste the fear of blacking out . |
| 5 | Charsky watched him being lowered on to a ledge , a little wider than his own . |
| 6 | He 's unlikely to ever score a more crucial point , but there 's no danger of him being carried away in the general euphoria . |
| 7 | The only way to deal with him was to fall back on the technique that had always served her best . |
| 8 | The Bishop 's resignation was announced at a Press Conference held at the Cathedral , when a statement by him was read out by the Diocesan spokesman . |
| 9 | He saw the flash of Osbern 's teeth before the struggling mass all around him was rocked sideways by the shock of the cavalry ; of live men flinging themselves out of its pathway and of dead men thrown after them . |
| 10 | The anger that the insults to his intelligence had aroused in him was put aside by the amazement that surrounded the question , and again he mouthed , ‘ What ? ’ then added , ‘ In line ! |
| 11 | But in that case why had he been invited here in the first place ? |
| 12 | He was lying with his head in the hollow of my neck and shoulder , breathing quietly ; his voice had a languorous , far-away sound , as if he were rocking slowly in a hammock on a hot summer day . |
| 13 | Now I have nothing against Terry as a person , although I do not think I would cross the road to help him if he were run over by a lorry , but that is neither here nor there . |
| 14 | His head had an odd tilt or cock to it , set on the shoulders as if he were looking up from the bars of a drop-handled bike . |
| 15 | If he were aimed specifically at the race another time he would probably go very close . |
| 16 | It was as if he were shitting out of every pore . ’ |
| 17 | No hearts were going to be broken , he told her with the frankest face , if he were to run off with a Protestant and have a dozen kids . |
| 18 | He took a briefcase with him , as if he were going back to the Works . |
| 19 | So I used to go with him , and incidently he was a , he was very good on classical music , although we never went into this although I 'd got very close to him but I 'm sure he were brought up in an orphanage you know , and never talked about this but I 'm sure he was . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's a human tragedy , ’ says a full-time union official , Gordon Samson , a Timex sit-in veteran and another of the officials scheduled for a court appearance , but he is referring not to the sacked workers but to the recruits . |
| 21 | He is referring here to the way in which written language may make the difference between structures clear , rather than to ‘ ambiguity ’ in the sense that a word may be taken as having two or more meanings . |
| 22 | He is carved here with an apple and a boar , for Finn was the Boar of High Summer and his enemy Diarmaid a Wolf . |
| 23 | This weekend , buoyed by the growing Liberal Democrat support and the trend to a hung Parliament in the most recent opinion polls , he is moving on to the next stage : cranking up the case for a coalition . |
| 24 | As a first approximation , we may note that ( 81 ) He 's coming seems to gloss as " he is moving towards the speaker 's location at CT " , while ( 82 ) He 's going glosses as " he is moving away from the speaker 's location at CT " . |
| 25 | He is moving back towards the bad practice of selective tax shelters , which Mr Lawson had undermined in his five years as chancellor . |
| 26 | At one of Hollywood 's more fashionable restaurants he is dining quietly with a friend . |
| 27 | His apparent personality as an ungeneralized individual is a literary illusion ; he is regarded instead as an object of a form of general moral evaluation and judgement that probes the mores of medieval commercial and commercialized life from a conventional standpoint that is , paradoxically , radical and fundamentalist . |
| 28 | But he demonstrated yesterday that he is now back on song and he is looking forward to a good run in the National Championships at Newark at the end of the month . |
| 29 | He is looking forward to an active retirement thanks to his association with the boy scout movement . |
| 30 | He is looking forward to the new challenge of visiting arthritis sufferers in their own homes . |