Example sentences of "[verb] he is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She writes : ‘ To meet him is to confront the unexpected , and a brain that operates so quickly you need to engage your own grey matter at the gallop . ’ |
| 2 | That is why to know him is to trust him , and to trust him is to begin to know ourselves . |
| 3 | That is why to know him is to trust him , and to trust him is to begin to know ourselves . |
| 4 | Imagine how difficult it is to look at the speaker if you can not tell the direction the voice is coming from , or if you can not hear his voice and maybe do n't know he is speaking . |
| 5 | He does not know he is taking part in a battle . |
| 6 | Antony says how , basically , that he is going to lie about the conspirators , and the crowd will know he is meaning the opposite . |
| 7 | Frodo does not know he is going to Mordor yet , and Pippin shrugs the whole thing off . |
| 8 | Billy — big brother of boxing hero Terry Marsh — insists on being called Jilly after announcing he is planning a sex-change . |
| 9 | I expect he is going to die in prison and he deserves it for what he has done . ’ |
| 10 | The question of justification may also arise where A seeks to assert rights under a contract with B which is inconsistent with another contract between B and C. The question here is whether A has a right equal or superior to that of C and if he has he is justified in persuading B to break his contract with C. So if B enters into a contract on Monday to sell to A for £10,000 and then next day to sell the same property to C for £15,000 A , by persuading B to perform the first contract commits no wrong against C. |
| 11 | Jesus had had many interviews with people , we 've looked at some of them over these past few weeks , the time when he met with Nicademus , the religious leader , the time he went out of his way to meet with a woman of Semaria in her dyer need , the other occasion that we looked at er a week or so back when he called Anzakias from that tree of which he was hiding , last week his judge , pilot , but of all those interviews and as many others that we have n't looked at this surely must be one of the strangest as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need , but Jesus your need is as greatest as any body elses , your pain , your suffering , your physical suffering was every bit of great as those around you , why be bothered with others is n't that so often our story , when we are in need we can forget all about other people , it does n't matter there need , its poor me , what about me , what about my need , what about my requirements , what about my suffering , but we see here how Jesus apart from any thing else deals with his own suffering , he deals with it by ministering to the needs of other people , and this surely then must be one of the most strange and one of the most interviews that our lord ever had when he was here on earth , with this dying thief , but he was more than a thief he was a er , he was a re a rebel , he was a terrorist or a freedom fighter depending on which way you wanted to look at it and he was dying for his crimes and he was n't alone because there there was this man we 've been talking about , there was Jesus and there was another one , another criminal on the other side and we find that this is all in keeping with what god had promised , all there in , in line with his prophecy way back in Iziah chapter fifty three , it tells us that he was numbered with the transgressors , that he died with sinful men with , with law breakers and here it is its happening right in front of the , the very eyes of the Jewish leaders and the jewish authorities our lords intention in coming into the world was to save men and women , to seek out and to save sinners , remember thirty odd years previous to this event the word had come , for Mary his mother , to Joseph , we will call his name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins and later on writing to Timothy the apostle Paul in the first chapter of the first book in verse fifteen he says it is a trust worthy statement deserving full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners , this was his purpose , this was his reason for coming into the world , not to be a good man , not to be a , a great leader , not to give us some model that we can , you know , that we can plan our life out and try and live up to his standards , he says I 've come to give my life as a ransom , I have come to save and to seek that which was lost and here in this incident as he himself is dying and is in physical pain and torment he is carrying out this very work , of seeking out and saving of those who will turn to him , those who will put their trust in him , he is saving the lost , and we see in a wonderful how great the compassion of Jesus was and is , in reaching out and rescuing those who are lost , here we see our lord suffering the most terrible agony and yet in the midst of his own sorrow and pain and , and torment he thinks of this dying thief and extends his grace and mercy to him . |
| 12 | The other occasion that we looked that , er a week or so back when he called down Zaccheus , from that tree in which he was hiding last week his judge , Pilate but of all of those interviews and th the many others that we have n't looked at , this surely must one of the strangest , as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need . |
| 13 | Party leader John Smith is right to press ahead with his plans to end the official role of the unions in selecting parliamentary candidates , but by allowing open confrontation with the unions to continue simmering he is undermining his good intent . |
| 14 | Robinson , who was England B coach with Alan Davies until both were dumped in the summer , reluctantly accepts he is fighting a lost cause : ‘ It is n't going to happen and the situation is beginning to get worrying . |
| 15 | The church planter needs to know he is called . |
| 16 | At home in Belgrade , the Serb capital , Mr Milosevic is promoting the Vance-Owen plan in the face of opposition from extreme nationalists , who say he is betraying the Bosnian Serbs , and democrats , who say his nationalism has landed the country in a disastrous mess . |
| 17 | Keepers say he is making the right moves with five females at Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park near Chard , Somerset . |
| 18 | He hands me a brown manila file , and a handwritten invoice which I imagine he is giving to me now while the connection between the reams of faxes and the many noughts , in local shillings , of his invoice is still fresh . |
| 19 | McCashin , who is relocating to Europe as part of last November 's corporate reorganisation that placed three vice-presidents in charge of European operations , says he is authorised to spend up to $10m without consulting the company 's finance committee . |
| 20 | Norman Hannis , of the Grange Guest House , Grange Road , says he is owed about £1,000 for DSS guests . |
| 21 | Then Macbeth seems to have a change of heart and says he is leaving whether he becomes king or not to chance . |
| 22 | Mr Gatoff says he is looking for offers in the region of £15m . |
| 23 | Now 65 , he says he is looking forward to spending more time on his hobbies , including helping out at his local church . |
| 24 | BNFL 's new Director of employee Relations , Brian Kerr , says he is looking forward to the challenge of his new job , an extension of the role he has exercised within the company since the 1960s . |
| 25 | But it 's difficult to convince Rush that Dalglish is not deluding himself if he says he is fulfilled by life after the Kop . |
| 26 | He says he is fulfilled . |
| 27 | While his clients have included dealers and museums , among them the British Museum , Patrick de Bayser says he is aiming mainly for a clientèle of private collectors . |
| 28 | The likeable Welshman , who came via the coaching route from Western Province , says he is fed up with the intrigue and politics of rugby . |
| 29 | Nineteen different events from junior singles to veterans doubles will make this tournament one of the biggest of its kind and Connor says he is expecting an entry of around the 350 mark . |
| 30 | O'Leary is in the second year of a leisure management course at West London Institute where he says he is adjusting to minor celebrity status . |