Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would not be made to read , in fact , or to perform any formal educational exercises ; nor would he be crammed with useless theorizing . |
| 2 | And will he be encouraged in future to do pets and their owners ? ) |
| 3 | In short , he is not frivolous enough for me : if he were soaked in boiling water … |
| 4 | What would a casual caller at Rose Cottage make of Johnny if he were to walk in uninvited during their visit ? |
| 5 | But he must go on to explain the sorts of variations which have this effect on individuals ( or other subjects ) if he is to rely on counterfactual claims about the actions of subjects . |
| 6 | Waugh himself ca n't be blamed for the wrenching out of a context that might have helped us to understand whether he is referring to unhappy women , rendered so by not being content with their lot , or men , who are now being forced to lend a hand with the Hoover . |
| 7 | On top of all that , he is blessed with terrific good looks . |
| 8 | If he moves into an enemy then he is engaged in hand-to-hand combat and must fight in the following hand-to-hand combat round ( he counts as charging in the first round as is also the case with magically induced movement ) . |
| 9 | In these circumstances it is sufficient for the broker to disclose to the customer that he is acting as principal , provided that he does not charge commission . |
| 10 | Spasticity can also cause pain anywhere in the hemiplegic side : the pain may occur when associated reactions happen , for instance when the patient is asleep , or when he is moving without proper control . |
| 11 | What Stephen says and what Stephen thinks begin to merge because the punctuation mark that indicates ‘ now my character speaks ’ is missing.Joyce does use the dash , however , to show that he is moving from descriptive narrative to direct expression . |
| 12 | ‘ The helpful guidebook , in Hungarian and German , told me that this sportive Death was saying , ‘ In this doleful jeste of Life , I shew the state of Manne , and how he is called at uncertayne tymes by Me to forget all that he hath and lose All . ’ |
| 13 | Following the completion of the acquisition of Framlington 's private client fund management business in January and the recruitment of five new investment managers in Liverpool , he is looking for increased investment revenues in this year . |
| 14 | Will the right hon. Gentleman say what support he is receiving from other G7 countries for his recent endorsement of a rouble stabilisation fund ? |
| 15 | Bill Walker , MP for Tayside North , said : ‘ He is living on borrowed time . ’ |
| 16 | … He is reckoned of average intelligence … and is said to have a moderate faith in Islam . ’ |
| 17 | SDLP leader Mr John Hume said that the first question he is asked by potential investors is : ‘ Will we be safe in Northern Ireland ? ’ |
| 18 | Sometimes he is beset by disturbing dreams or sensations while asleep . |
| 19 | Still , he feels that the waiters know that he comes from Dearborn and they can see that in his cashmere tweed jacket he is sailing under false colours . |
| 20 | He is descended from Mbatian . ’ |
| 21 | He is endowed with specific talents . |
| 22 | He is calling for good conditions for traders at the new pitches in Tarleton Street , Williamson Square and Paradise Street . |
| 23 | O'Leary is in the second year of a leisure management course at West London Institute where he says he is adjusting to minor celebrity status . |
| 24 | Jones seems to have found elements of the trend of thought he is pursuing in modern Western culture , for example in Owen Barfield , Loren Eiseley , Michael Polanyi and Peter Ouspensky . |
| 25 | It is sometimes argued that an experienced programmer can detect the ‘ general shape ’ of a particular high-level language X from blocks of machine code , just by hunch and judgement , but this ignores the possibility that the code may have been written in language Y with the syntactic style of X precisely in order to create this confusion ; just as one can murmur English with a German intonation and cause a distant listener to believe he is listening to unintelligible German . |
| 26 | He is staying with Christian friends during term-time , where he is being really loved and cared for by them . |
| 27 | Murphy , who was 39 last week , recently announced that he was making his original partner , Helen Cree , managing director , although he is staying as executive chairman to concentrate on growing the business , particularly in the financial sector , and improving quality . |
| 28 | Whenever he is stopped at military posts now , he produces his book and says , ‘ Look , these are all my friends who will protest if I am arrested again ’ . |
| 29 | He is to ask for all-party support of the event at next week 's council meeting . |
| 30 | He is to ask for all-party support at next week 's council meeting . |