Example sentences of "[conj] he is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robbie Gladwell has opened a new guitar workshop in Sudbury , Suffolk , where he is undertaking all nature of electric and acoustic guitar repairs ; plus setups for that ‘ problem ’ guitar , customising and custom building , etc . |
| 2 | During their subsequent separation and his long sojourn in an English prison , where he is saved from the gallows only by a last-minute reprieve , his vision of her becomes intense and idealised . |
| 3 | He said the championships were his last event ; he was quitting swimming to concentrate on bodybuilding and his studies at Houghall Agricultural College , Durham , where he is training to be a shepherd . |
| 4 | He also operates popular self-defence classes for women at Larchfield Sports Centre , where he is assisted by Debbie Harris , former English women 's karate champion . |
| 5 | They applied the well established ploy of neutralising the troublemaker by proposing him for the position of chairman , where he is obliged above all to be impartial . |
| 6 | Even the one who has betrayed the light sooner or later is forced to come back to the centre of stability , where he is raised once more into the understanding of clarity and purity of thought and action . |
| 7 | Doctors at the East London rehabilitation unit where he is recovering are sending him home for Christmas with his family in Chingford , Essex . |
| 8 | And three-times 1930s champion Perry , in a letter from the American hospital bed where he is recovering from a triple heart bypass operation , added : ‘ To the youngsters who will use this centre , I say , use it with pride . |
| 9 | And every day Berkowitz , 45 , was brought to court from Wandsworth prison , where he is serving three years for such an offence . |
| 10 | Where he is employed by the society , that will be indicated below the signature . |
| 11 | CD reintroduces Pickwick , not very happily , in Master Humphrey 's Clock , where he is represented as joining Master Humphrey 's circle and supplying the story of Will Marks . |
| 12 | This is clear from a passage in Dixon J. 's judgment where he is dealing with the second class of case : ‘ But , where the substantial or only ground for impeaching the instrument is misunderstanding or want of understanding of its contents or effect , the amount of reliance placed by the creditor upon the husband for the purpose of informing his wife of what she was about must be of great importance . ’ |
| 13 | Loudspeakers lead the visitor from one counter to another , where he is deluged in official documents , forms and certificates to fill in . |
| 14 | I picture him in the back of his friend 's flat where he is staying . |
| 15 | On January 1st the rebels of the United Somali Congress claimed to have driven President Siad Barre into a bunker in the military airport , where he is defended by his favourite tanks . |
| 16 | Where he is addressing the converted , so to speak , he can say that his intention may have been to reinforce or confirm views already held rather than to stir up hatred . |
| 17 | But he must work on his kicking in general , especially where he is trying to find touch . |
| 18 | The account given in this book , based on the constructional meanings , enables us to give answers to these questions : Why does Oliver imagined her red-haired have two different meanings , one where he is trying mentally to change the lady 's image , and the other where he wonders what sort of person he is going to meet ) ? |
| 19 | Cemaleddin Aksarayi 's connection with Amasya is more fully developed in Husameddin 's earlier where he is said to have been a fellow student of Hajji Shadgeldi 's ; to have become kadi in Amasya in 763/1361 when Hajji Shadgeldi took power ; to have been raised from the kadilik and the muderrislik of the Dar al- " ilm medrese to the kazaskerlik in/about 768/1366–7 ; and to have remained such until after Hajji Shadgeldi 's defeat and death in battle with Kadi Burhan al-Din in 783/1381 , whereupon Cemaleddin Aksarayi fled to Konya . |
| 20 | We are in London 's trendy media haunt , the Groucho Club , where he has that day become a member , his celebrity enabling him to jump a one-year waiting list to his evident delight , and where he is promoting his new BBC travel series Pole to Pole , a sequel to the successful Around the World in 80 Days . |
| 21 | It can be detected out on the fairways , where he is acknowledged as being among cricket 's best golfers . |
| 22 | There is only a remark in Plutarch 's Alcibiades , where he is recounting the story of the double-crossing of the Spartan ambassadors ( p. 117 ) : Alcibiades ( xiv.8 ) urges the Spartans to go before the Council because it is more ‘ moderate and kindly ’ than the People , that is the Assembly . |
| 23 | His work can be seen regularly at the Chris Beetles Gallery , where he is having a solo exhibition from March 31-April 16 |
| 24 | Nothing goes right for Walter ; his father dies early , soon followed by his mother , a rigid , religious woman , who treats the boy harshly but teaches him good conduct , to write and to hold down a job in a sweet factory where he is patronised by his superiors and ridiculed by his fellow workers . |
| 25 | Kapuscinski is soon in a still hairier place , further south , where he is told of the South African intervention . |
| 26 | The return to my house is strained by the thought that he still has not the faintest idea where he is going . |
| 27 | He knows precisely where he is going now and is fit and eager for the challenge . |
| 28 | Planning each outing is good training for the patient : if he has difficulties with programming , you might go over the plan with him each time before he goes out , and ask him to say out loud exactly where he is going and how he is going to get there . |
| 29 | ‘ In John Major you have a pilot at the helm who knows where he comes from and where he is going . ’ |
| 30 | To drive a London black cab , you have to pass stringent geographical and driving tests , so you can be sure that any London cabbie knows what he is doing and where he is going . |