Example sentences of "he [be] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Writing this in 1776 , he was pleased enough with what was happening ; had he been able to look back from 1815 he would have seen his optimism largely vindicated . |
| 2 | he , he were due to go back in the army and he overstayed |
| 3 | For that matter , she might not have been far out in thinking him impudent ; his manner was innocence itself , his deference if anything delicately overdone , as though he were ready to come down off his high horse the moment she came down off hers , and did n't anticipate that the descent need be long delayed . |
| 4 | A colt by Shirley Heights , he is sure to go on to better things following a narrow debut victory over Shepton Mallet at Newmarket in July . |
| 5 | A colt by Shirley Heights , he is sure to go on to better things following a narrow debut victory over Shepton Mallet at Newmarket in July . |
| 6 | He is due to report back to police in March . |
| 7 | He is keen to catch up with family and friends , especially his 91-year-old mum Dolly Simmons who lives in Bebington . |
| 8 | And Wharton , 25 , is convinced he is ready to move on to European and world title glory thanks to a new exercise — the sedate game of golf ! |
| 9 | Add the position of his feet being wide apart and he is unable to get out of the way or play down the line . |
| 10 | Grant pulls up in his car but realises that due to the camber he is unable to get out of his door , so he drives up the road does a three point turn and positions his vehicle to aid his extraction from the car seat to the pavement . |
| 11 | Like Mrs Thatcher , he is able to reach out beyond the middle-class , private-sector bastions of Tory support to wider social echelons , and to ground the Tory philosophy deep in the changing social contours of the ‘ new Britain ’ . |
| 12 | The manner of Charlie 's death in this particular incarnation , coupled with the way in which he is able to look back over his earlier experiences no doubt contributed a lot to the fate of Eliot 's Phlebas , |
| 13 | The signs are that he is prepared to sign up for the emerging versions of both political and monetary union . |
| 14 | Webb has constantly said he is happy to carry on at Old Trafford and fight for his place . |
| 15 | Lord Peyton has the right to stick to his guns and he 's disinclined to give in after the majority he won last time . |
| 16 | That 's if he 's willing to go up to twenty . |
| 17 | He spent a good deal of time in his satires , presenting himself as a satirist — unplaced , unpensioned , no man 's heir or slave he proudly describes himself as he tells us that he 's willing to lash out at even the most eminent public figures . |
| 18 | There 's quite a lot of second hand if he 's willing to travel around for them . |
| 19 | The Sheffield Wednesday defender last night confirmed that he 's ready to bounce back in the live TV match with Spurs exactly 12 days after a horror collision . |
| 20 | GRAHAM TAYLOR yesterday announced that he 's ready to fly out to Rome to watch Paul Gascoigne before naming his team for the opening World Cup tie against Norway at Wembley . |
| 21 | Electronics industry consultant Bob Heikes reckons he 's likely to hang on to the job , but for all the wrong reasons : ‘ Bull is hopeless , ’ he told the International Herald Tribune — ‘ a new guy is n't going to make any difference . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Whatever can he do for a living , if he 's free to ramble about in the middle of the working week in April ? |
| 23 | He was anxious to get out of the basement and back upstairs . |
| 24 | He was due to join up with his old friend Irving Layton again , and former professor F.R. Scott at New York 's prestigious YM/YWCA centre on 92nd Street . |
| 25 | He was due to go up to the Blue Mountains that morning and she started having pains , she said . |
| 26 | Nigger told him he was due to start back on the tugs on the following Monday . |
| 27 | but you see with him you see , they , it was packed , the house before the wake was packed , because Margaret kept coming over when he was all dressed up in a suit and everything , I did n't , she asked me if , once to go , I just said no I would prefer to remember |
| 28 | As he was all poshed up in his best uniform , ready to go off on a 48-hour pass , he was not best pleased at this turn of events . |
| 29 | More awkward still , since Laura was not on board , he was obliged to lock up before going to the office , and had to wait on board , with his brief-case and umbrella , determinedly not listening , while Nenna went down to the saloon . |
| 30 | James settled briefly in the papal city of Avignon before , as a result of British government pressure , he was obliged to move on to Italy . |