Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] he is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mentally or instinctively he is looking for the pattern and his antennae are an outward expression of that inward instinct . |
| 2 | Has he been taking lessons from the right hon. Member for Yeovil ( Mr. Ashdown ) in arm movements , or perhaps he is auditioning for a part in ’ Thunderbirds ’ ? |
| 3 | As to state of mind , Raskolnikov lives with his own continuously but inspects it only intermittently , like the rest of us ; whereas the author surveys the whole truth the whole time , so that we never find him wondering whether perhaps Raskolnikov is thinking this or perhaps he is thinking that : a fact which isolates Crime and Punishment among the mature novels , because elsewhere Dostoevsky loves the unsettled and unsettling narrative posture of ‘ perhaps ’ , particularly with his contracting and dilating collective voice , the ‘ we ’ swept by rumour and speculation which arrives in The House of the Dead and reaches its full flowering in The Possessed . |
| 4 | I say this because the Sloth so far has done nothing and it appears he does n't plan to do anything except now he is reading a James Michener book . |
| 5 | And everyone knows that really he is advising medieval kings and nineteenth-century Prime Ministers . |
| 6 | But Adorno assumes that ‘ the process of internalization , to which great music as a self-deliverance from the external world of objects owes its very origin , is not revocable in the concept of musical practice ’ ( ibid : 133 ) , and so he is bound to consider the ‘ functionalism ’ of popular music as regressive , explaining it by reference to social-psychological defects . |
| 7 | Suspicion may rest on him : and so he is suspended until he is cleared of it . |
| 8 | So he , he went , course he had us calling like I 'm calling Gemma , Gemma and Jade and so he is going calling them by their names ! |
| 9 | His employers consider homosexuality a ‘ security threat ’ , and so he is interviewed here under a pseudonym . |
| 10 | He knows better than that , and anyway he is rumoured to be paying the Italian genius a lot of money for his one-box design vision that forms part of BMW 's long-rumoured MPV programme . |
| 11 | In His account of what happened to the rich man and Lazarus after they died ( Luke 16 verses 19/31 ) Jesus quoted the words spoken to the rich man in hell , by Abraham and in verses 29 and 31 we see Abraham referring to Moses and The Prophets and clearly he is speaking specifically of the scriptures attributed to them . |
| 12 | And now he is teaching his son the tricks of the trade . |
| 13 | Mr Nath has already raised £700 towards the cost of hospital bills and transport for two-year-old Constantin and now he is hoping others will join him in his fundraising . |
| 14 | But he could do little for them ; and now he is gone . ’ |
| 15 | In May , Mr and his group had the opportunity to vote with us in spending another two million pounds on the education system of this county , and now he is complaining only six months later , that we are n't spending enough , and I think we 've said before , the Conservatives have , and continue to have the opportunity for action , but they will not support their words with deeds . |
| 16 | His talent has chosen to evoke the twilight of reality and now he is evolving within himself a universal pictorial renaissance . ’ |
| 17 | He retired from motor racing at the top , and now he is retiring from the Celebrity Challenge after once again raising a magnificent sum for charity . |
| 18 | There is a highly respected politician who has done honourable service in that most sobering of posts , the Northern Ireland Office , and now he is expected to play Father Christmas , with a lovely sack of surprise goodies to dispense to good children . |
| 19 | depending on , sponging off er whatever for however long and now he is going , is , is retiring on health grounds , you know , he really is n't going to be er able to bankroll me |
| 20 | ‘ And now he is playing a little game with you . ’ |
| 21 | If he had been simply playing the girl game , she reasoned , he would be getting steadily more intimate , and here he is reverting to deference . |
| 22 | Only Shotover , a Shavian figure seeking a ‘ mind ray ’ that will destroy his enemies , tries to unite wisdom and power ; and even he is revealed at the last as a rum-soaked old poseur . |
| 23 | So Henry 's belief 2 is true , and surely he is justified in believing 2 . |
| 24 | Ah not too bad he says the doctor says I 've got a festered back passage Dessie says and there he is scrubbing the fuck imagine |
| 25 | Time and again he is savaged for speaking on subjects about which his critics claim he knows nothing . |
| 26 | And therefore he is forbidden to you by every rule , natural or manmade . |
| 27 | He just about gets away with it as a teenager in long shot and make-up , but mostly he is heard ( putting on a ‘ young ’ voice ) and not seen . |
| 28 | I do not know the latest medical prognosis of how long he will live , but perhaps he is hoping not to be around in 30 years ' time when the papers become available . |
| 29 | But soon he is forced by famine to go down to Egypt , and when he is about to cross the border he resorts to a ploy which knocks him straight off any pedestal we might have erected for him . |
| 30 | The Secretary of State may try to dodge the issue but tonight he is asking us to allow him and British Coal to pay for the top-of-the-range redundancy levels which the interim report from Rothschild urges as a necessary prerequisite for privatisation — |