Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [pers pn] is " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hand he offers her is also the sword/phallus drawn reeking from the father 's wounds . |
| 2 | But he insists he is happy to fit into coach Giavanni Trappatoni 's team plans . |
| 3 | It is approaching midnight , but he agrees it is a fine idea . |
| 4 | Once he is satisfied that the law as he understands it is for Mrs. McLoughlin , he will feel justified in deciding in her favour , whatever the present legislature thinks and whether or not popular morality agrees . |
| 5 | Never feed the puppy before the family — this way he understands he is last in the pecking order . |
| 6 | The man from Dunkeld will come today or tomorrow — if he thinks it is worth his trouble . ’ |
| 7 | He thinks it is a waste of time for foreigners to try to help change things in Central America . |
| 8 | He thinks it is great living in a wide open world , ’ says his son . |
| 9 | He thinks it is totally wrong and immoral to do things like that . |
| 10 | Spock is not advocating spanking , but he thinks it is less destructive than lengthy disapproval , because it clears the air for both parent and child . |
| 11 | For he thinks it is scientifically debatable , ambiguous and controversial , and yet it is convincing , because ‘ in some puzzling way it is true ’ . |
| 12 | If he turns up late he thinks it is funny . ’ |
| 13 | perhaps he thinks it is a strong form of like . |
| 14 | The lawyer may wish to eschew the elevation of efficiency if he thinks it is being pursued at the expense of other desirable goals such as fairness and equality of opportunity , goals which he may feel are more important than efficiency . |
| 15 | In Norman Nicholson 's Lake District anthology , he is sensibly clear-headed about including his own work where he thinks it is useful . |
| 16 | ‘ The doctor tells us that if it 's the stuff he thinks it is , it can take a little while to work , especially if Sir Thomas drank coffee . |
| 17 | The bit where the rest of the family goes out and the cat is after Stuart bores Babur : he thinks it is probably directed at the younger reader . |
| 18 | The nightmare feels quite different from what he 's seen on TV — but he thinks it is closer to the truth . |
| 19 | And although this work has seen him working all over Britain , Ireland , Europe and the US , he thinks it is time for a change . |
| 20 | And do you know who he thinks it is ? |
| 21 | Sorry , this is pretty mind-blowing , but he has got himself into difficulties because he things that beauty is not , so to speak , a logical construction that allows us to talk about particular objects in the world , he thinks it is itself a sort of spiritual thing . |
| 22 | He thinks it is itself something beautiful that sort of swims down into our world and is incarnated in particular objects , and then he wonders about that because his own way of forming universals means that he 'd have to do it all again and again and again in an infinite regress , so he has a problem , basically , about calling beauty itself beautiful . |
| 23 | He thinks it is itself a sort of spiritual thing . |
| 24 | He thinks it is itself something beautiful that sort of swims down into our world and is incarnated in particular objects . |
| 25 | I could make up the detections that his presence lost me in a matter of days , and if he thinks he is going to see any wheeling and dealing when he is sitting in , well he 's naive ! |
| 26 | His father is a big shot and he thinks he is , too . |
| 27 | He thinks he is , but he is n't . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Perhaps because that 's what he thinks he is . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ He 's not God , even if he thinks he is . ’ |
| 30 | If at the moment he speaks he thinks he is meeting his child in a land of real stones and tree-stumps , he is sadly mistaken ; if he realises he is not , then already a touch of grief is creeping back into consolation . |