Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] he [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you only have to see a police uniform through the door to feel racked with guilt , even though you 've done nothing wrong and he 's only looking for a lost cat . |
| 2 | Well it 's not very clear whether he 's actually thinking or seeing it . |
| 3 | It 's not clear whether he 's actually thinking about a fox or seeing a fox or so , yes . |
| 4 | He makes explicit that he is not writing as some individual Messianic figure propounding an individualistic gospel deriving from ‘ the ineffable wisdom of primitive peoples ’ . |
| 5 | He 's a very aggressive batsman , but he finds the time to be a great encourager of his partners , and Phil Bainbridge is convinced that he 's never run faster than when they were in together against Lancashire . ’ |
| 6 | His shoulders are broad and he is strongly built . |
| 7 | The Conservative party is lucky that he is not displaying his intellect on Labour 's Front Bench . |
| 8 | He just has n't got a clue , apparently he said last night he never thought it would be so hard , he had a confession with Liz or something , never thought it would be so hard and he 's really struggled this year , really , really hard work , nothing like being a deputy which to me he 's an idiot if he did n't know that , he 's feeling guilty about the phone bill , but has n't got any money at all for anything |
| 9 | His judgement is more balanced and he 's better educated and better informed . |
| 10 | He 's known as a bit of a trouble-maker but he 's really helping and striving to make things work well . |
| 11 | This new dating agency allows HER to check she 's not being paired with the Incredible Hulk and he can make sure that he is n't getting a real-life Grotbags . |
| 12 | So I got ta make sure that he is n't going . |
| 13 | If you see a picture of a golfing great with his hands well in front of the clubhead at impact , you can be sure that he is either playing the type of shot I have just mentioned or he could be squeezing the ball out of a tight lie . |
| 14 | This is one of the reasons why anyone who works for himself should make sure that he is fully covered by insurance providing for loss of earnings during a long-term illness , as well as insurance against the possibility that he might not be able to work again after such an illness . |
| 15 | When I were at the parents ' evening I said does that mean er he never sits still and he 's always tearing about and |
| 16 | So far his progress has been encouraging and he is already taking a few steps with the aid of a frame . |
| 17 | Where he comes in and he does that piss and he 's and Madonna 's standing there looking at him like this and she 's just looking at him and she 's going , anyone who can keep it up that long and he 's just sitting there going er no he 's going er and she 's going , she 's going , and she 's coming round like that trying to look at him , I could n't stop laughing . |
| 18 | If a person has , say , five jobs to do as part of his professional responsibility , and is beginning to feel inadequate because he is n't doing them all perfectly … take on ten more . |
| 19 | It seems to me that he ca n't be that unhappy because he 's currently managing twelve vacancies deliberately , in order to produce underspend so that he can re-surface his car park , maintain privileged restaurants for his erm , senior officers , chauffeur driven car for himself and build a new hangar for his helicopter . |
| 20 | If Ronald Kray really was as vile as he is herein depicted , he should have been put to death and swiftly forgotten . |
| 21 | Mo may just not care what gets said about the Company — it 's all the new team now — as long as he is n't caught saying it himself And if he gas blamed for some dirty work that got started fifteen years ago — and I doubt he was directly responsible ; he was too senior then — how much does it hurt him now ? |
| 22 | Even if he does , he 's safe enough from us as long as he 's not pushing . |
| 23 | ‘ As long as he 's not fixing for another of his boys to play around with this alternative route through the mountains , ’ I said . |
| 24 | Hatton , for example , summed up the delinquency of Reggie Smashem and Billy Dustup as ‘ nothing more serious than the symptoms of healthy , vigorous , adventurous adolescence ’ : ‘ I propose to make a practical examination of this question of the ‘ hooligan ’ ’ , for I am seriously concerned that he is not getting a fair deal . ’ |
| 25 | The advantage of supine lying is that it allows the patient to work more easily , because the effect of gravity is reduced , and the patient feels safe because he is fully supported , so he can concentrate on perfect control of the selective movements in his limbs : this is an important stage in the preparation towards making steps , and ultimately to walking . |
| 26 | He is even more adamant that he is not stealing a place that could be filled by an Englishman . |
| 27 | Taylor is adamant that he is not going to quit . |
| 28 | ‘ He is the model of what a retired cricketer should be — a white haired , white whiskered , florid country gentlemen , close upon his three score years and ten , comfortably off , well-informed , and interested in and full of information about cricket in general , his own shire and town in particular where he is much respected . ’ |
| 29 | Mr Eliot has lived abroad so long that we rarely think of him as an American and he is never written about from the point of view of his relation to other American authors . |
| 30 | And I thought , I 'm just going to wait and see what he says , and I 'll say well they 'll be walking round naked cos he 's not bought them a pair of socks , pants , T-shirt jumper , nowt . |