Example sentences of "he is [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first one that might occur to him is to manufacture light , to use a lantern or a searchlight . |
| 2 | The following day , in a temperature down around — 2O°C ( — -4°F ) , I am wearing loop-stitch socks and Lundhags , and he is wearing reindeer skin boots and grass . |
| 3 | The huge eight-year-old gelding , whose appetite is so big that he is nicknamed Monster Munch , was led through a crowd of 500 well-wishers to his box at the Saxon House stables of his trainer , Nick Gaselee . |
| 4 | He is helping West Midlands Transport publicise it new smoking policy on buses and commuter trains throughout the area . |
| 5 | ‘ Sir ’ Bob is rocking on to Thames Quay on the Isle of Dogs , where he is establishing Planet 24 , a production company putting out The Big Breakfast Show for Channel 4 . |
| 6 | He is to replace Micky Stewart , who retires in September on reaching the age of 60 . |
| 7 | However , it must be stressed that it is a question of fact in each individual transaction , and the question one has to ask objectively in every single situation is whether the purchaser is merely selecting specific assets for the use in his own business or whether he is buying assets in order that he can carry on the business in succession to and in place of the vendor . |
| 8 | His wounded country needs time and international tolerance to recover and , accepting the inevitable , he is buying time with a series of compromises . |
| 9 | Perhaps this is why he is buying flowers and pictures . |
| 10 | He is transforming lives that are suffering from the corruption of the world , just like that widow and her sons . |
| 11 | He is urging Bord na Gaeilge to show its support for Belfast 's Irish speakers — estimated at 28,000 in the last census — by inviting one SDLP and one Sinn Fein councillor to attend . |
| 12 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State is to announce today that he is appointing Ernst and Young management consultants to undertake an independent study of the case for and against relocating the Department of Energy 's petroleum engineering directorate to Aberdeen . |
| 13 | While he is living there he is stopping glue sniffers and vandals killing the fish and ruining the countryside . |
| 14 | While he is living there he is stopping glue sniffers and vandals killing the fish and ruining the countryside . |
| 15 | This is obviously far more satisfactory than leaving it to a widely dispersed class of persons each of whom may lack the skill , interest and financial resources required if he is to take action on his own . |
| 16 | In most he is reported as Harry Symmonds , but in others he is called Willie Thornton . |
| 17 | ‘ The he is called Guy . |
| 18 | He is called Jeremy , or Giles , or Piers , or Rupert , or even Harry and by his side is a girl called Camilla , Antonia or Annabel , with splendid teeth , an Alice band in her swept-back hair and a blue quilted Puffa jacket over sensible skirt and shoes . |
| 19 | George Bush makes a campaign television commercial about crime , but it features a black criminal , so he is called racist . |
| 20 | He is called Magister in the manuscripts , a title reserved for doctors of theology . |
| 21 | He is using middleweight and light-heavyweight sparring partners in an attempt to make Cooney work faster , but in the session I watched he was not quick enough . |
| 22 | He is using middleweight and light-heavyweight sparring partners in an attempt to make Cooney work faster , but in the session I watched he was not quick enough . |
| 23 | I would n't like to say he is using Saeed as a weapon against me . |
| 24 | He is using wisdom and er his wisdom of life or knowledge of like perhaps rather than wisdom . |
| 25 | I am happy that he is receiving education suitable to age , ability and aptitude at home , in fact , between ourselves , it is probably more appropriate and worthwhile than that which he is likely to be receiving at school — not through any fault in the local schools but because schools can not always provide ideal circumstances for all learning and certainly can not provide the context in which John is operating . |
| 26 | How can the Prime Minister be so complacent and so indolent when he is receiving advice that something now needs to be done ? |
| 27 | Does my hon. Friend think that that is an entirely happy precedent when he is discussing discounts which are fraught with anomaly , difficulty and contradiction ? |
| 28 | The reader who believes he is learning things about Imperial Ethiopia may be equally inclined to tell himself that this is a country of the mind , constructed on principles not very different from those of the Samuel Johnson who devised , for the Abyssinia of Rasselas , just representations of general truths and of a common humanity . |
| 29 | Noades also denied reports that he is chasing Sheffield United manager Dave Bassett , Noades ' manager when he was chairman at Wimbledon . |
| 30 | Here he is remembering Nick Kent standing around in the old NME offices in Carnaby Street talking about what Keith Richards had said to him once , when he noticed something hanging out of his leather trousers . |