Example sentences of "he [is] [vb pp] [coord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , Paul is saying that Jesus ' death affected him so profoundly that by standing in his shadow he is forgiven and justified . |
| 2 | He is guarded but friendly . |
| 3 | He is selfcentred and ambitious , on his way to being a cosmetic surgeon , but love and white picket fences conspire to change his low-down ways . |
| 4 | There can be little doubt as to what in the way of topics and register the Host expects in the Monk 's Tale ; he concludes his observations on Melibee with : and continues with a description of the Monk that matches with the impression " Chaucer " claims to have of the Monk in the General Prologue , of a " " manly man " " , straining at the bounds of what is allowed to a monk ( and not dissimilar to the monk of the Shipman 's Tale ) : After nearly a hundred stanzas of the Monk 's tragedies , the Host is prepared to give him a second chance , as " Chaucer " had , but feels this time he has to be more specific as to what is wanted : But as soon as the Monk speaks we have the opportunity to see , firstly , that his reaction does not suggest he is flattered or pleased by the Host 's appraisal of him , and secondly that he sounds quite different from the bold and thrusting " man 's man " that " Chaucer " and the Host would make of him : Note how the Monk 's desire to offer literature that " " sowneth into honestee " " anticipates Chaucer the prosist 's retraction of the tales " " that sownen into synne " " . |
| 5 | Those who do love Frank ( and they are legion ) love him just because he is humiliated and embarrassed : they love him because he is vulnerable . ’ |
| 6 | They said he is armed and dangerous . |
| 7 | Nestor gets jealous of his other self and stages a killing of his rival , for which he is arrested and convicted . |
| 8 | He 's attracted and attractive to women and , I 'd guess , to men too , and yet he lives as a celibate . |