Example sentences of "he [verb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A man who puts 'is stock first is acting for what 'e thinks is t'best , ’ he snapped . |
| 2 | A MENTALLY handicapped man who spent almost a month in Barlinnie Prison because there was nowhere else for him to go is to be transferred to the Royal National Hospital in Larbert today . |
| 3 | Pete Harvey flies … races … and competes for fun … for him hangliding is more than a sport … more than a hobby … it 's a passion |
| 4 | v. Lindley Lord Reid said , ‘ A case where a defendant presents to the plaintiff the alternative of doing what the defendant wants him to do or suffering loss which the defendant can cause him to incur is not necessarily in pari casu and may involve questions which can not arise where there is intimidation of a third person . ’ |
| 5 | Asking him to deliver is like expected a chameleon to stay the same colour whatever its environment . |
| 6 | For him negotiating is less a game of poker and more a game of chess . |
| 7 | While Milton explained the background and tried to wrest the case back to his jurisdiction , Pooley , who had gone with him to ffeatherstonehaugh 's , was white-faced with fear at Ramsbum 's gleeful account of the state of the two victims . |
| 8 | He seems later to have returned ; possibly an attempt on the throne was being planned when he died , for the C text 's statement that Cnut afterwards had him killed is followed by Florence , who adds that he was betrayed by those he held dearest . |
| 9 | The the only job which I told Neil I do not expect him to take is working for waste disposal because he did that , this time last year and before he started he was full of big talk about you make a lot of money and you get a lot of tips at Christmas he found that you do not make a lot of money and you do not get generous tips at Christmas |
| 10 | Now er w w with every respect , to say that he survived it is something of a crass statement , because I remember reading about him thinking is n't this country getting good that we can have a black guardsman , and I remember my own disappointment when I read that he had to leave the regiment . |
| 11 | Watching him perform is like watching charades . |
| 12 | That 's why she 's talking about him retiring is n't it ? |
| 13 | He thinks the only good reason for enforcing statutes whose wisdom he doubts is to protect the legislature 's ability to coordinate social behaviour . |
| 14 | But I am certain that the mistake he made is somehow lodged in your stories . |
| 15 | Joseph Rank had his first mill in Sproatley and the house where he lived is still outwardly the same , but the mill foundation was removed about 20 years ago when a modern housing estate was built . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's a rebel , and the one thing he hates is an old family . ’ |
| 17 | Scarcely a point he plays is n't played to the limit . |
| 18 | You will have seen , with as much surprise as pleasure , a child of nine play the harpsichord like the great masters ; & what will have astonished you even more was to hear from trustworthy persons that he already played it in a superior manner three years ago ; to know that almost everything he plays is of his own composition ; to have found in all his pieces , and even in his improvisations , that character of force which is the stamp of genius , that variety which proclaims the fire of imagination & that charm which proves an assured taste ; and lastly , to have seen him perform the most difficult pieces with an ease and a facility that would be surprising even in a musician of thirty … . |
| 19 | The way he plays is quite unbelievable . |
| 20 | The well known picture of the flautist that appears as the frontispiece of his Principes de la flûte traversière ( Paris , 1707 ) is assumed to be a portrait of Jacques himself ; the instrument he plays is the archetype of the early three-piece flute ( illus.2 ) . |
| 21 | He 's , I , he , the way he plays is virtually unique , is n't he ? |
| 22 | The assemblage of lands which he ruled is traditionally called the Angevin Empire and the name is important . |
| 23 | Because where he goes is a smaller school where they go and erm I think something like that is nice for them to actually |
| 24 | Anyway so he goes is James there and I went yeah and he goes mm , so I went I think so , I 'd better go and get him had n't I |
| 25 | It is so grave , because , on any view , the putting to death of a human being by the society to which he belongs is an appalling act , calculated in itself rather to familiarise that society with the taking of life than to heighten the sense of life being held sacred . |
| 26 | But at that point hope is cruelly dashed , for the food he supplies is that terrible mound of quails . |
| 27 | Now he is a minister of a church in Houston , where among the prayers he offers is one to be allowed to fight Tyson for the world title . |
| 28 | Now he is a minister of a church in Houston , where among the prayers he offers is one to be allowed to fight Tyson for the world title . |
| 29 | Even in the reference section at the end of the book the most he offers is to say that by studying the Buddha image we can learn more about Eastern art ‘ than if we read a good many surveys of these fields ’ . |
| 30 | As we have seen , a waiter at a hotel implies that the wine he offers is that of the hotel and not his own : Doukas , above , and in Silverman there was an implied representation that a quote was fair in the circumstances of mutual trust . |