Example sentences of "he is [verb] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In Liverpool , a dockers ' spokesman with the Transport and General Workers Union admitted : ‘ Drivers are n't happy handling some of these commodities , but at least a lorry-driver has more idea of what he is handling than a docker , who could have a consignment and just not know what it is . ’
2 The tenant may have a remedy in contract based on the lease if he is injured and the landlord has broken a covenant to repair .
3 On the way to the car , he is asked if the interferon treatment helps .
4 The first of these is when the teacher is asked to do a manageable job , where he is working within his intellectual capacity and has that confidence which proceeds from really knowing more about what he is teaching than the children do .
5 Now he is gone and the work is public property , Sherlock Holmes can legally be seen in this kind of twaddle .
6 And Hywel will go without a word , and when he is gone and the house is silent Elizabeth will creep to the telephone and she will pick it up and it will ring in another empty house because Dr Wyn has gone to the Fair .
7 But he is betting that the Department of Health will not prosecute him this time .
8 An outsider , too , can often distinguish between a child ‘ lost ’ in what he is doing and a child intent on ‘ showing ’ what he is doing .
9 And walks around in the darkness , he does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded him .
10 At the same time he is depicted as a saint by the bishop of Tours , who may well have thought of him as a fellow victim of Merovingian politics .
11 He is saying that the church shows part of God 's glory .
12 The defendant is not bound to reimburse the Department of Social Security until he is notified that the money in court has been paid out to the plaintiff .
13 It is the statute that marks out the field and dictates to the citizen the rules by which he is to play and the goal at which he is to aim .
14 Moreover , he is told that the date of the first review is related to the length of time the Secretary of State decides he must serve for retribution and deterrence , and that the judicial view as to this period is a factor taken into account in making the decision .
15 But when he asks why it is not cleaned out , he is told that the man of the house is in no humour for it , after the fourteen hours of his day 's labour , and that there is in any case no water for the purpose since the poor must pay to fetch it up the hill .
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