Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] is [v-ing] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the manager of any organization knows the worth of what he or she is doing it is easier to explain its purposes to other people and to seek their co-operation . |
| 2 | The ideas might even have come from elsewhere-their tutors , or books , or perhaps a tape/slide presentation — but the student has to embrace them as his or her own if he or she is claiming them to be true . |
| 3 | THERE IS a paranoiac frisson , and more than a little insight , to be had from the thought that we humans are not really in control of our own fates , and that someone or something is using us . |
| 4 | It is arguable that the reader may actually be confused rather than helped by the deviation from convention , precisely because she or he is expecting you to conform to the rules of punctuation . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's been a fine day , the sun is setting and somebody is telling you your daughter has been murdered . |
| 6 | ‘ Atkinson is best running at them and nobody is doing it better . ’ |
| 7 | There was the distorted thud-thud of someone who is n't certain if their microphone is working and who is tapping it experimentally . |
| 8 | Hospital advertising is popular and getting ever more sophisticated so you need to find out what is on offer and who is using it . |
| 9 | ‘ And who is riding her ? ’ |
| 10 | And one is encouraging them all of the time to be able to look at their own work as a group , as well as an individual , and make assessments of it themselves . |
| 11 | We have set up the institutions and everybody is joining them . |
| 12 | The 28-year-old has made his first shift from children 's telly with the Friday evening showbiz slot ‘ Entertainment Express ’ where he works alongside Selina Scott — and he is loving it . |
| 13 | Only one of the 15 still had his hair yesterday , and he is getting it shaved over the weekend . |
| 14 | The extension of VAT was ‘ fairly predictable and he is phasing it in so it does not look quite so bad ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ We knew he was one of the best finishers at the club and he is proving it , ’ said Barrow . |
| 16 | ‘ A proposition was put to Owen , and he is considering it , ’ the source said . |
| 17 | They paid a deposit of £800 , and it is costing them more than £200 a month to repay a loan on their £8,000 apartment . |
| 18 | The Serious Fraud Office has powers of investigation , and it is exercising them . |
| 19 | ‘ There 's a dream and it is dreaming us , ’ they say . |
| 20 | But nobody is ignoring it . |
| 21 | The bearded head gardener who is always tending the apple tree ; the wise old sea-captain who never rushes to judgment ; the character you 're not quite introduced to , but who is giving you a creepy feeling by Chapter Four … pack them off into storage , all of them . |
| 22 | But he is using them as light fixtures ( there 's a switch ! ) to illuminate an installation of photographs of previous shows at the gallery . |
| 23 | I know it 's hot and uncomfortable , but it is helping you — that 's it . ’ |
| 24 | But what is worrying me is |