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 | 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 . |
| 3 | It costs around £40 for a replacement bin and police say tenants should take steps to make sure theirs is easily identified . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She also assumes that once a woman marries and has children she is financially provided for . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | While she is away feeding they take the strange kittens and rub them gently in the bedding that carries the female 's scent . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And she is wholly believed because of that . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She is either lying or crazy , he reasons , believing that Martin was incapable of such alien behaviour . |
| 18 | That she is probably dealing with a barren original only emphasizes the problems of conventionality . |
| 19 | Under the guise of complimenting Elizabeth 's mercy , Spenser is implying she is easily manipulated by others . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But , unknown to him , she is assiduously exploring his past life , tracking down his ex-wives , children and step-children . |
| 22 | ‘ She is here to accompany her uncle . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Living first in Switzerland and now in Spain , she only really sees Britain when she is here to work . |
| 25 | She is here carved riding in a car drawn by elks . |
| 26 | ‘ She is here to get a husband . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It is a method of making the press charge my wife before she is even found guilty by the press . |
| 29 | She is softly spoken , naturally courteous woman , but with a quiet confidence that suggests she would brook no interference . |
| 30 | She says that everyone dreams of winning a medal , but at the moment she is just hoping to get there . |