Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [conj] he [is] " in BNC.

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1 undermine your opponent 's credibility by : questioning his experience suggesting that he is losing control negotiating to the point of his mental exhaustion
2 A prisoner is on the roof of a top security jail protesting that he 's innocent of murder .
3 A prisoner is on the roof of a top security jail protesting that he 's innocent of murder .
4 Sergeant Major , you 've been in the Army for about nigh on twenty years now , do you think that a soldier has to be able to cope with that sort of taunting and name calling when he 's on the streets of Belfast for example .
5 The ridden horse 's ears may be at half mast indicating that he is relaxed and listening to his rider .
6 She says one boy has gone back to bed wetting because he 's so worried .
7 In an action for recovery of land , any person in possession ( by himself or by his tenant ) and not named as a defendant may by leave be made a defendant on filing an ex parte application showing that he is in possession , by himself or by his tenant , and giving grounds for the application .
8 I 'll stay one more night with Victor , because he 's got the spaghetti going and he 's bought an airbed , but I 'll be gone tomorrow .
9 If , on the other hand , the trader ( without the customer having requested him to do so ) has telephoned the customer indicating that he is willing to make a visit , the trader 's subsequent visit will be unsolicited and the Regulations will apply .
10 If regression can find the reason for the initial onset of the phobia — that first , frightening occasion — it may not be sufficient to put an end to it but it certainly stops the sufferer feeling that he is simply being ‘ weak ’ and ‘ foolish ’ or ( as one of my patients put it ) that he is ‘ going out of his mind ’ .
11 the degree can vary from the rider feeling that he is having his arms pulled out to the good feeling when the horse is keen to get on with his business — this is described as being well up to the rider 's hand .
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