Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [that] he is " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the fact of having , and also of course of realising that he is having , the same experience as he , and the same sensation , as he 'd experienced many years before , this sensation releases a whole set of associated feelings . |
| 2 | I suppose English critics will always work on the old lines , and try to get behind the book to quiz the author … instead of seeing that he is almost irresponsible , that it is the result of haphazard circumstances , and that the writer rubs his eyes and wonders how this and that got into his pages as much as the reviewer does . |
| 3 | It is not a matter of showing that he is entitled to have authority , but that he has it , that he is in authority , with all the consequences which follow from this fact . |
| 4 | Once he introduces them , the linguist can not simply retreat into claiming that he is only dealing with the abstractions of descriptive linguistics . |
| 5 | Having duped Ajax into thinking that he is their chosen man against Hector , the Greek leaders , who had earlier made such a fuss about being mocked by Thersites and Patroclus , now mock Ajax in asides ( also , naturally enough , in prose ) : |
| 6 | Thus , in the Induction to The Taming of the Shrew — a unique example of a play outside the play , not to be taken as a measure by which the rest of the play must be dismissed for lacking seriousness — the tinker Christopher Sly , brought back in a drunken stupor to the house of a mischievous lord , is deceived into thinking that he is really a gentleman . |
| 7 | I 'm not alone in maintaining that he is the second sweetest man on earth . |
| 8 | The trustee , the debtor and any person stating in writing that he is a creditor may , at all reasonable times , inspect the file of proceedings ( r 7.31 ) . |
| 9 | He has in writing that he is to be used — only — as an offensive midfielder both in games and — in training — . |
| 10 | Richard Phillips is the Mary Shelley who created the monster , and I have no doubts in saying that he is as mad as a snake and supremely gifted in his chosen field . |
| 11 | So man 's greatness comes from knowing that he is wretched , for a tree does not know that it is wretched . |
| 12 | Indeed , it would seem that the purpose for the inclusion of this paragraph in Part I of Schedule 1 is to prevent a person who has been arrested for breach of a condition of his bail from claiming that he is entitled to bail despite that breach of condition , because none of the matters set out in paragraph 2 of that Part of the Schedule apply to his case . |
| 13 | He is so intent on scoring that he is often unaware of the need to pass to supporting players in a better position . |
| 14 | She said : ‘ You are dealing with a neurotic , it goes without saying that he is all screwed up . |
| 15 | We can restate Saussure 's argument by saying that he is taking colour terminology as paradigmatic for all language ; just as colour terms impose arbitrary divisions on the continuous spectrum of light waves , so all other words impose arbitrary divisions on the ‘ indefinite plane of jumbled ideas ’ which , without language , would constitute our mental experience . |