Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 But , like a cat , every muscle in that perfectly honed body of his is permanently coiled in perfect readiness to spring .
2 That logical mind of yours is n't going to stand any nonsense , is it ?
3 Surely an Association such as yours is basically run by the officers , it is a certain amount of window dressing having local councillors , if you like , sitting on your executive .
4 It costs around £40 for a replacement bin and police say tenants should take steps to make sure theirs is easily identified .
5 So , since theirs is not to reason why , they attack , with disastrous consequences .
6 She is finally defeated by Ripley operating a mechanical lifter , a power loader a more sophisticated reprise of Sarah working the hydraulic press to ‘ terminate ’ her adversary in The Terminator ( Cameron 's self confessed love of machinery is apparent again ) .
7 Before she is finally arrested , she shoots a number of them , and lobs a grenade into the wings , where it goes off with a loud report .
8 She also assumes that once a woman marries and has children she is financially provided for .
9 She is later employed as a maid by Lady Dedlock , who , when threatened with exposure by Tulkinghorn , seeks to shield her protégée from involvement in her disgrace .
10 She is equally fascinated by the stone as a specimen and as a phenomenological object , but whereas those of us working in drama who might agree with the wisdom of this position tend to see ‘ personal engagement ’ with the world through dramatic action as a proper way of helping the child to know the world , Dorothy Heathcote tends to delay the phenomenological process by a deliberate depersonalising of objects .
11 Through the agency of a handsome admirer from her Cambridge days , she is increasingly drawn into the sphere of a dying emigre genius , gobbets of whose tersely enigmatic fiction are interspersed with her narrative .
12 As Alicia begins to build a new life for herself she is increasingly drawn towards the brusque yet magnetic charms of the Cornishman who owns Tresco , a remote ranch near the High Sierras .
13 While she is away feeding they take the strange kittens and rub them gently in the bedding that carries the female 's scent .
14 It 's as if she is away staying somewhere , and we are waiting for her to come back , we can not do anything until she returns .
15 Whatever the reason , male marmosets have developed a rearing strategy whereby they greatly assist the mother by carrying , holding , and generally caring for infants while she is away eating elsewhere .
16 And she is wholly believed because of that .
17 After protecting herself during her travelling years by dressing like a boy , she is temporarily hanging up her hat and exploring her sensual , feminine side .
18 The ease with which patients are managed in these settings contrasts with the chaos that commonly ensues when a single anorexia nervosa patient is treated on a general psychiatric or medical ward , where she is either afforded special status or rejected because her illness is seen as self-inflicted .
19 She is either lying or crazy , he reasons , believing that Martin was incapable of such alien behaviour .
20 That she is probably dealing with a barren original only emphasizes the problems of conventionality .
21 Under the guise of complimenting Elizabeth 's mercy , Spenser is implying she is easily manipulated by others .
22 Tall Loretta is supposed to pursue masculine endings of a linguistic kind as a London University academic but she is easily diverted to Bridget 's base at St Mark 's , Cambridge , and to discussions of one kind and another in Paris .
23 But , unknown to him , she is assiduously exploring his past life , tracking down his ex-wives , children and step-children .
24 She is here to accompany her uncle .
25 She found those who had fled from Re 's anger in the desert and killed very many of them , thus gaining the name of Sekhmet , the lioness goddess of war , with whom she is here identified .
26 Living first in Switzerland and now in Spain , she only really sees Britain when she is here to work .
27 She is here carved riding in a car drawn by elks .
28 She is here to get a husband .
29 She is here doing research at the university with one of my husband 's oldest friends , and is staying a week or two here before moving to a flat .
30 It is a method of making the press charge my wife before she is even found guilty by the press .
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