Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What would he be doing at this moment ? |
| 2 | That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was |
| 3 | If he is convicted of this crime [ this ] punishment follows : the loss of members , that there be member for member for when a virgin is defiled she loses her member and therefore let her defiler be punished in the parts in which he offended . |
| 4 | He is sticking to this view . |
| 5 | If anyone shows deep concern that he is doubting in this way , it is a sure sign that he is not . |
| 6 | He is cursed with this understanding . |
| 7 | Jim Knox , an Oldham director , says that the club have fulfilled their financial obligations to Round and do not know why he is behaving in this way . |
| 8 | I would not venture to say which he is doing in this case . ’ |
| 9 | As a god and therefore able to communicate with all other gods , the king was the high priest of every cult and every temple and the sole officiant in the ritual , and he is shown in this role presenting the offerings in temple reliefs . |
| 10 | By analysing the products he is selling in this way , a salesman will communicate in terms which are meaningful to buyers and therefore be more convincing . |
| 11 | He is continuing in this capacity for Kent during 1992 . |
| 12 | He 's speaking of this time now and this age when it is now harvest time . |
| 13 | Do n't know , last time I asked Diane she said oh he 's , he 's living with this machine he 's got in |
| 14 | You may well be better off without him instead of living in limbo , not knowing what he 's thinking or why he 's acting in this way . |
| 15 | This is the moment when it comes into his mind to ask himself what he 's doing in this place ; to see the meaninglessness of his business there , and the hollowness of his enjoyments ; to lose sight suddenly of what it is in the texture of life that has ever occupied his attention and led him forward . |
| 16 | ‘ The Commissioner 's giving a pep talk this afternoon about all the progress he 's making on this shooting . |
| 17 | ‘ I understand he 's known at this address ? |
| 18 | He was mystified by this phenomenon ; it had never happened to him before , so he took it as a kind of omen . |
| 19 | He was killed in this battle erm , is that of interest ? |
| 20 | He returned from a cold and rainy holiday in Switzerland to find himself faced with a mountain of correspondence and other business ( he was receiving in this period something like fifty letters a day , although most of them were handled by Valerie Fletcher ) . |
| 21 | He received acetylcysteine , but his condition deteriorated , showing signs of liver failure , and he was transferred to this hospital for supportive treatment . |
| 22 | On 2 June , he was asked about this subject at a press conference . |
| 23 | I am the first human being he has seen since he was posted to this backwater . |
| 24 | Yeah he was to go through this morning to get my project , no say me in trouble , I 'm in deep , I do n't know , ooh er , I ca n't see so how we all today ? |
| 25 | Yeah he was to go through this morning to get my project , no say me in trouble , I 'm in deep , I do n't know , ooh er , I ca n't see so how we all today ? |
| 26 | ‘ He said it was a pity I had n't come to him before , when the evidence was there that he was living with this woman , because now the bungalow 's been sold and she 's disappeared . |
| 27 | Throughout August and early September he was engaged in this process , with drafts going between Hayward and himself , until on 19 September he sent Hayward the final version . |
| 28 | Here again I can quote Graham Greene , though he was writing in this instance about the thriller , which is outside the scope of this book . |
| 29 | He was opposed on this point by the German naturalist Moritz Wagner , whose book The Darwinian Theory and the Law of the Migration of Organisms of 1868 insisted on the need for a period of geographical isolation . |
| 30 | ( He was to apologise for this braggadocio two years later . ) |