Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [be] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teacher supplying the push may be helping to launch the career of a future gold medallist ; but equally he may be setting a youth off down a path to nowhere . |
| 2 | He may be given a seat on the tribal council , a position of power and prestige . |
| 3 | Mr Smith may be very depressed or he may be having a nap . |
| 4 | The former speaker , who will start his new duties during a lecture tour of America this summer , will start on a commission basis , but , if his efforts are successful , he may be offered a stake in a formal American venture . |
| 5 | In 1790 , when the county of Cromarty was being contested , one of the freeholders serving in the army demanded , as the price of his support for the candidate favoured by Henry Dundas , that he should be given a company in a regiment stationed in Britain . |
| 6 | He may , however , begin to think that , being judged capable of running his own show , he should be given a department of his own . |
| 7 | I consider that this must also hold good for the right of establishment : in order for a national of a member state to be eligible to be regarded as exercising his right of establishment in another member state , it is not enough that he should be operating a fishing vessel registered in that state ; in addition , his activity must have other links with the territory of that State . |
| 8 | ‘ But he should be playing a bit forward — maybe he 's too concerned at the moment with his defensive duties . |
| 9 | That fella up at Cecil 's , I should he must be getting a fortune . |
| 10 | Then , realising that sooner or later he must be given a reason for her presence , she repeated the one she had given Stella . |
| 11 | Reid has had a memorable season and as the big autumn events loom up he must be relishing a crack at races like the Prix de l'arc de Triomphe and the Champion Stakes . |
| 12 | Next time you see him , he 'll be using a knife and fork like the rest of us . |
| 13 | He 'll be walking a tightrope trying to keep the farm profitable and respond to those pressures . |
| 14 | On the lighter side of his subject , he 's made a study of gambling habits from a statistical view point , and during the Open Day he 'll be giving a lecture entitled ‘ Horse and Football Pools — Why you should Expect to Lose ’ . |
| 15 | If he does then it will almost certainly mean that he 'll be offered a directorship . |
| 16 | but he might be getting a job felting roofs , putting roofs and and |
| 17 | He , surprisingly enough , was comparatively sober , which means he was drunk by any ordinary standards , but by the very gauge he had set himself over the years , he might be called a pillar of sobriety — and grumpy with it . |
| 18 | Or he might be handed a file and a tiny silver tool with which to clean her toenails while she dozed in a chair . |
| 19 | Or he could be following a highway of pheromonal signals laid down by fellow members of his species — a trail leading to food , maybe . |
| 20 | Hetzler saw in Joyce an intelligent and dedicated recruit to the Nazi cause , though it was unlikely that he could be found a job in any of the ministries . |
| 21 | Well there was er the one who had the most important influence in my school life was Albert Edward , do you remember the printers , he was a teacher and he used to teach standard four , that was your last standard in the junior , and he had a big influence on , on me because er he wanted me to go into the printing trade as an apprentice , but I , me leaving school at thirteen and going into full-time work straight away I could n't do , do that but oh there was er , , he was an officer during the war he was in the and there was oh our , our school teacher , we used to call , we used to call him his name was actually Arthur I think , but he was always , he was a little bit addicted to the lit little whisky bottle , he used to keep a little bottle in his desk and he 'd be having a nip of whisky , but he was what was approximated as a sports master now , he used to look after the football team , we used to call him , I suppose his name was Arthur but his name was . |
| 22 | Back to front , cos he 'd be carrying a lot of of hay on his back and that was to stop the hay seed , going down between it shirt and his skin . |
| 23 | He was n't sure that he would be given a chance to hold on to his wife . |
| 24 | If they they they would , if there was a gaffer there he would be getting a shilling a day and the labourers would be getting ninepence or something , n ninepence a day . |
| 25 | Mr Koc told Mr Roger HendersonQC , counsel for the GMC , that the ‘ broker ’ brothers Mr Ata Nur and Mr Riza Kuntar had promised him he would be getting a job when he was brought to England . |
| 26 | Mr Koc told Mr Roger HendersonQC , counsel for the GMC , that the ‘ broker ’ brothers Mr Ata Nur and Mr Riza Kuntar had promised him he would be getting a job when he was brought to England . |
| 27 | Yet he then stood up and said that he would be making a statement in the valleys tomorrow . |
| 28 | They thought it over and only after their first choice , Eli Wallach , announced he would be doing a Broadway play instead of making the film , did they give the part to Sinatra . |
| 29 | Mr McGilvray said he would be opening a depot in Cambuslang in the next fortnight where he would be employing as many as 18 former Lilley personnel . |
| 30 | Mr Geoffrey Dickens , MP for Littleborough and Saddleworth , announced that he would be presenting a dossier of evidence to the Home Office in due course . |