Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E 's livin' somewhere orf the Tower Bridge Road an' 'e 's got 'imself anuvver 'orse-an'-cart . ’ |
| 2 | It finished 'is boxin'. 'E was goin' ter fight fer a title before 'e went in the army . ’ |
| 3 | There was a stunned silence as fair-haired Watson 's three elderly victims watched him being led away to start his surprise sentence . |
| 4 | Is John MOtson Eric cantona 's agent ? he cant talk about his Gallic flair without sounding like he s become sexually aroused . |
| 5 | What these critics did not see so clearly was that elsewhere customary tenures had so confused conceptions of ownership that a clear , profitable , and workable landlord-tenant relationship was difficult to conceive ; while in many regions customary quit rents gave the landlord little surplus to invest , even had he been inclined so to do . |
| 6 | How long had he been standing there watching her ? she wondered , feeling the colour surge into her cheeks . |
| 7 | On no account should he be allowed simply to get in his car and drive around before he has been pronounced competent to drive , and has organized his driving licence and insurance accordingly , if for no other reason than that his insurance would be invalid if he did have an accident . |
| 8 | What irritated Edmund Wilson about Chaplin 's more ambitious films of the 1920s was the inclusion of ‘ gags ’ and ‘ low comedy incidents ’ as if he were trying desperately to hang on to his old mass audience , the clear implication being that Chaplin had now become the property of a more sophisticated audience . |
| 9 | If , however , he were to arrive only to find Madeleine promised to someone else , he would have to suffer again those bitter pangs of regret he 'd endured before he came out to Blue Ash Farm . |
| 10 | No doubt he sees this as a stage in his learning to win again , but all the time , he is learning instead to derive small satisfactions from losing — a skill he will have discarded some time before he won the Weembledon ( he really did pronounce it like that ) Junior Championship , all of 20 years ago . |
| 11 | Since only adults can give consent , he is bound logically to admit that a child " is born a Subject of no Country or Government " . |
| 12 | John stresses that , he is determined always to encourage Laura in her own chosen areas of ability . |
| 13 | He is pictured later discussing Othello with English students . |
| 14 | He is trying hard to develop business ties , with special emphasis on secular Turkey . |
| 15 | The radio sketches that Galton and Simpson created for Tony Hancock in the mid-1950s are a back-street version of the same rueful joke : the hero , discomforted by every encounter , gets it wrong when he is trying hardest to get it right . |
| 16 | The account given in this book , based on the constructional meanings , enables us to give answers to these questions : Why does Oliver imagined her red-haired have two different meanings , one where he is trying mentally to change the lady 's image , and the other where he wonders what sort of person he is going to meet ) ? |
| 17 | ( 5 ) Where a solicitor or licensed conveyancer , or an agent or employee of a solicitor or licensed conveyancer , in the course of or in connection with a transaction involving the disposition or creation of an interest in land , purports to deliver an instrument as a deed on behalf of a party to the instrument , it shall be conclusively presumed in favour of a purchaser that he is authorised so to deliver the instrument . |
| 18 | INDUSTRY Minister Peter Lilley said yesterday he is lobbying hard to bring part of a £500m contract to Darlington . |
| 19 | Soon , for instance , he is seen cheekily jostling for prominence among refugees arriving at Southampton . |
| 20 | When a curate has planted one new church , he is encouraged strongly to uproot , move and start all over again in a completely new situation . |
| 21 | This , because he wants to cut a figure among the fighting lads and impress Parolles , he is forced twistedly to repress . |
| 22 | Now he 's there it should almost be like a holiday because he is required only to do what he is good at — getting tight on the opposition and setting up England 's creative players . |
| 23 | He is advised also to contact the appropriate official of his intentions when he will receive all reasonable assistance towards his visit . |
| 24 | In a sense Mao is , is adopting very much the position that he seems to have taken erm in nineteen forty five when he 's , he 's looking forward to land return but saying at the moment our policy of rent reduction , interest rate reduction will continue and at some stage we will then be able to move on into , to that reform . |
| 25 | And he 's staying tonight to keep Danielle . |
| 26 | He 's become better known as a zoologist , but has n't forgotten it was Swindon that offered him his first exhibition . |
| 27 | The life he 's leaving really has n't been worth living . ’ |
| 28 | But he 's eating well going to the loo alright . |
| 29 | There are two girl keepers who spend as much time as they can with him and are giving him so many titbits that he 's getting thoroughly spoiled . |
| 30 | I said yeah we 're try we 're , no I said oh yeah he 's he 's and then she also said slightly different to him and I said well he 's getting there thank you very much , yeah . |