Example sentences of "he is [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The full length mirror can be a great help by enabling the child to look at things he is wearing which he may be trying to describe . |
| 2 | They turn to face Philip Swallow , who has evidently just arrived , since he is wearing his rather grubby anorak and carrying a battered briefcase . |
| 3 | He is wearing his traditional outfit of pinstriped suit , pinstriped shirt , spotted tie and Gucci shoes ; or perhaps he has been home and changed , and is now sporting yellow cords , a maroon V-necked jersey , and highly polished brown brogues . |
| 4 | Charm was never the strong suit of the hon. Member for Glasgow , Garscadden ( Mr. Dewar ) — indeed , I think that he is wearing his only suit . |
| 5 | Perhaps he is bringing his forearm forwards and leaving the lower leg hanging down . |
| 6 | He suspects he is drowning them , but the third plant died some months ago and he still feels bad about it . |
| 7 | ‘ He is warning me about my death , ’ Alexander announced quietly , ‘ Violent and soon to happen ! ’ |
| 8 | The extension of VAT was ‘ fairly predictable and he is phasing it in so it does not look quite so bad ’ . |
| 9 | In such a case the judge is not abusing his powers ; he is exercising them to the best of his ability albeit some other court thinks he was mistaken . |
| 10 | But also , I guess , he is exercising his right as a laibon to prophesy . |
| 11 | It is no secret that Slobodan Milosevic [ the Serbian President ] is psychologically a self-destructive , suicidal type , but the trouble is that he is transferring his suicidal madness onto the nation as a whole . |
| 12 | Does he think that he is helping our farmers in their genuine plight by highlighting such diseases in this debate ? |
| 13 | Here he is to explain what Fast Forward do and why they 're needed . |
| 14 | He is so true to his roots that he is buying his first home in ‘ mean street , ’ Philadelphia , the tough district where his father and several friends were killed . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Perot Systems Corp chief Morton Meyerson , one of the candidates for John Akers ' job , has been telling IBM Corp 's directors what he reckons should be done to rescue the company — and it ai n't pretty : according to the Wall Street Journal , he is outlining something very like what we suggested , hiring top people in the appropriate industry segment — Andrew Groves , Michael Dell , Alan Shugart , Scott McNealy , people of that ilk , to run each of the new business units , and if they wo n't come on board , he says , IBM should sell them respectively the chip , personal computer , disk drive and workstation lines of business . |
| 17 | Before he is moved he will be blood-tested for brucellosis and leucosis and he will be re-tested on arrival at Vimer . |
| 18 | He is to take our swiftest horse as well as a fresh mount . |
| 19 | But he is using them as light fixtures ( there 's a switch ! ) to illuminate an installation of photographs of previous shows at the gallery . |
| 20 | He is using them like puppets . |
| 21 | Often the instructor or pilot knows the correct recovery and thinks that he is using it , but because of the unusual forces on the controls , he is failing to apply the full recovery action . |
| 22 | More likely he is using it in the more everyday usage of ‘ not sent or guided in any special direction ; having no definite aim or purpose ’ ( OED ) , which suggests that any such view of history must have no end , and therefore no teleology . |
| 23 | He told magistrates he is using his car to search for new shops to relaunch his business career . |
| 24 | He is using your partner as divine sandpaper to take off the rough edges . |
| 25 | If it be at an untimely hour , or if they fail to assign a proper reason for being in a place , he is to arrest them … showing bad characters that they are known and watched by him … their habits will point them out without further ado … |
| 26 | His diagnostic task is somehow to differentiate between the information he is receiving which is false and that which is valid and follow this by the selection of a remedial strategy . |
| 27 | I hope that , when he is reporting our debate in Oxford , he will tell the House who won the vote . |
| 28 | That is , we are tempted to say that when he says , ‘ I like Auntie Kate ’ he is reporting his observation , by introspection , of a private object , an Auntie-Kate-directed feeling of liking . |
| 29 | When he is asked what he will do after his own group splits , he usually resorts to humour . |
| 30 | What he gives is his opinion , whereas when he is asked who he will vote for he gives a fact . |