Example sentences of "[vb -s] he is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he thinks he has he is at his most dangerous . ’ |
| 2 | A spokesman for the actor , who was married before to actress Laura Johnson and has a son by Ursula Andress , says he is considering ‘ two major projects ’ . |
| 3 | Pausanias says he is on the god 's left , and I conclude that he is using the words from the spectator 's point of view , as I believe he does in his account of Polygnotos 's paintings at Delphi . |
| 4 | General Norman Schwarzkopf , the American commander in Saudi Arabia , says he is in no special hurry : as the war goes on the Iraqis become weaker , the allies stronger . |
| 5 | The debate there has hardly started : for example , when John Smith says he is in favour of a bill , he needs to be pressed on what it will contain ( social and economic rights as well as political ones ? ) ; and whether it will be repealable by a simple majority of the Commons . |
| 6 | But how about a fresh older face that nobody knows , a fresh older face that belongs to a fellow who never thought he would win seven or eight tournaments in his career , and who says he is in awe of his 1990 season . |
| 7 | He says he is in Liverpool but we are also keeping up inquiries in Scotland . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm sorry to disturb you , Mr Varna , but I have a Mr O'Neill here who says he is from the British and Cosmopolitan Assurance Company . |
| 9 | Speaking for himself , Svidrigailov says he is after the women , which is n't untrue but we know what it 's worth . |
| 10 | He reels off a list of names which shows he is in good company : Graham Gooch , Allan Lamb , David Gower , Ian Botham … |
| 11 | She realises he is on the slippery slope towards a life of crime . ’ |
| 12 | Gibson reckons he is worth £400,000 . |
| 13 | He is trying to joke , she senses he is at a loss for the first time that afternoon . |
| 14 | It is not unlike the feeling a good scientist gets when he senses he is within range of something interesting . |
| 15 | It seems he is at play while I am asleep . |
| 16 | The tribunals are meant to provide simple informal justice in an atmosphere in which the ordinary man feels he is at home … an atmosphere which does not shut out the ordinary man so that he is prepared to conduct his own case before them with a reasonable prospect of success . |
| 17 | ‘ Just when a player thinks he is past him , Pally will stick out a long leg and nick the ball off him . |
| 18 | If he thinks he is in an adult-adult transaction while the follower has moved to a child-parent response , because he thinks the leader is refusing to accept the point he is making , communication has ceased . |
| 19 | He says he thinks he is in Cheltenham . |
| 20 | His new post means he is in charge of all St John 's activities in the county . |
| 21 | Although on-trial Norwegian striker Tore Andre Dahlum plays for the reserves on Wednesday , Ferguson admits he is for the future , and he must plunge now . |
| 22 | SCOTTISH Ambulance Service fleet manager Ed Hodson believes he is on the way to knocking £1 million a year off fuel bills by gradually switching totally to diesel . |
| 23 | Ferguson claims he is in the best condition of his career and is completely focused . |
| 24 | But I do not think it is this threat alone which explains the sick feeling of dread — rather like the feeling of a man who knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight — which clouds the prospect of a Labour victory . |
| 25 | Boswell quotes Samuel Johnson as saying , " Depend upon it , Sir , when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight it concentrates his mind wonderfully . |
| 26 | Johansson is driving the race of his life and he knows he is in charge of the championship , even if it 's not going to be his . |
| 27 | N. K. Sanders 's summary of the plot of the epic sets the scene : When the story begins he is in mature manhood , and superior to all other men in beauty and strength and the unsatisfied cravings of his half-divine nature , for which he can find no worthy match in love or in war ; while his daemonic energy is wearing his subjects out . |