Example sentences of "[coord] he is [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what people notice about Anthony is the way he holds his head down , that he 'll hardly ever look you in the eye , and the manner in which he will suddenly turn his whole head away if ever there is disagreement or he is challenged in some way . |
| 2 | The writer could have selected a sequence such as His opponent congratulates him on his victory or He is congratulated on his victory by his opponent . |
| 3 | At the start of the Malvinas war he is with the Escuadrilla de Ataque based at Punta Indio , flying Aermacclu-339As and he is sent to Puerto Argentina — ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Lord , there is one ruler over all the known worlds , and he is called the Emperor . |
| 5 | Sometimes problems arise from the fact that his relationship with his own mother has been unsatisfactory , and he is faced with the hard task of learning from scratch how to relate successfully to a woman of the older generation who has joined his household . |
| 6 | In a private agreement made a few months after the treaty was concluded , Bruce restored Henry Percy 's Scottish lands and he is said to have promised to restore the lands of Henry Beaumont and Thomas Wake of Liddel . |
| 7 | St Magnus joined Hakon in suppressing Viking lawlessness in the Northern Isles and he is said to have married a daughter of a Scottish chieftain — both parties preserving their chastity for ten years . |
| 8 | His briskness of pace off the pitch became legendary , and he is said to have been the first bowler deliberately to have deployed the seam in his technique . |
| 9 | Daniel Höchstetter , like his father Joachim , was a master miner and he is credited with the invention of a mine pumping engine . |
| 10 | They first describe the work of love as a double edged activity with positive and negative effect — purging sin and kindling the heart , clearing the soul and removing anger and sloth , wounding in love and fulfilling with charity , chasing off the devil and extinguishing fear — and then level out to the strongly stressed affirmation which defines the positive potential of the negative statement in chapter one " he hase noght Jhesu Criste , he tynes all he has , and all he es , and all he myght gete " ( 85.19 – 21 ) for he that has " Jhesu " grows through prayer to the fulfilment of human potential : heaven is open to him and he is made a " contemplatif man " . |
| 11 | And he is involved through the ENYBPG in the current battle to beat the baiters with £1,000 in rewards offered by groups incensed at the cruelty . |
| 12 | His results in seven of the eight one-day internationals were only marginally better , with six wickets at 41.33 , and he is ranked 12 with C&L — the highest Englishman . |
| 13 | Britomartis had a male companion , whether son , brother , or consort is unclear , and he is referred to as the Master of Animals . |
| 14 | The penny suddenly drops , and he is revealed as the one who makes sense of life . |
| 15 | Mr Hinks became a member of the council of the Law Society , which was quite an accolade for the firm , and he is believed to be the only Darlington solicitor to be honoured in this way . |
| 16 | The plan was adopted and he is acknowledged to have been the father of the modem U.S. Navy . |
| 17 | The acquisition of language — an incredibly daunting task to one who has never heard it and never will — is therefore of crucial importance to a prelingually deaf child without an education which teaches him language his potential capacity and intelligence are forever wasted and he is destined to lead a primitive life appearing mentally defective to a hearing world . |
| 18 | Male chauvinism was rife in medicine in those days , and he is forgiven . |
| 19 | There is a new self-confidence in unionism , since its talks representatives showed they could face down the opposition , and he is determined to build upon it . |
| 20 | Lyons is relishing the challenge ahead , and he is determined to succeed . |
| 21 | He was on the losing side with Everton three times twice against Liverpool and he is determined to get his hands on the trophy this time . |
| 22 | But that approach does not apply in the case of badgers , it seems , and he is baffled by people 's emotive concern for the animals , which are not an endangered species . |
| 23 | With his loyal advisers Francis Cripps and Frances Morrell by his side , he beavers away with unremitting zeal even when his beloved industrial policy is snatched away and he is banished to the Department of Energy . |
| 24 | On 19 October 1550 he was granted letters of denization and he is listed thereafter in various City parishes , the last being St Bride 's in the ward of Faringdon Without , where he was described in 1571 as ‘ Haunce , pictorer , a denizen , borne in Anwarpe , came into the realm about xxviii yeres past , Douch ’ . |
| 25 | The Minutes do not tell us in what Mr R — — — ‘ s ‘ misconduct ’ consisted and he is heard of no more . |
| 26 | And he is blessed with a beautiful , evenly produced , voice . |
| 27 | Auditors are no longer employed by the Secretary of State , although the commission itself is appointed by the Secretary of State after consultation with local authority associations and professional accountancy bodies , and he is empowered to issue directions which the commission must observe . |
| 28 | His tall figure , spear held on his shoulder , strides back across the savannah until the moonlight gives out and he is consumed by the landscape . |
| 29 | There he became a renowned ornithologist where his work is recognised to-day as being of immense scientific value and he is accepted as being the father of American Ornithology . |
| 30 | — Mankind is distinguished from all other creatures in two respects : he alone is made in God 's own likeness ; and he is given charge over all the rest . |