Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] he is " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( f ) Paragraph ( c ) covers cases where deception occurs before the debt is incurred , such as the accused falsely representing that he is a full-time student to obtain discount travel . |
| 2 | Such a response seems understandable given that it allows McFaul to explain why he is at odds with the Party while still maintaining that he is loyal to its principles and to its founder , but it can not stand as a general proposition . |
| 3 | I 'm not alone in maintaining that he is the second sweetest man on earth . |
| 4 | undermine your opponent 's credibility by : questioning his experience suggesting that he is losing control negotiating to the point of his mental exhaustion |
| 5 | However , if he happens also to run a business and sells one of the cars in circumstances suggesting that he is selling it in the course of that business , then he is likely to be regarded as doing just that , Southwark London Borough v. Charlesworth ( paragraph 9–20 above ) . |
| 6 | I suppose English critics will always work on the old lines , and try to get behind the book to quiz the author … instead of seeing that he is almost irresponsible , that it is the result of haphazard circumstances , and that the writer rubs his eyes and wonders how this and that got into his pages as much as the reviewer does . |
| 7 | And the fact of having , and also of course of realising that he is having , the same experience as he , and the same sensation , as he 'd experienced many years before , this sensation releases a whole set of associated feelings . |
| 8 | Confessing that he is ambitious for more power , but unlikely to get it , Mr Clark , who once described Africa as ‘ bongo-bongo land ’ , says : ‘ I 'm not interested in the rest . |
| 9 | Jimmy Jessop , the glaciation expert , who is a skilled pickpocket , undoes the back buttons of Neil 's braces as they lean over a diagram together , until Neil loses his temper , and chases Jimmy round the office , shouting that he is going to bloody kill him . |
| 10 | Plot : Jim takes drugs and starts hallucinating that he is Ian Astbury out of The Cult . |
| 11 | ‘ If a person with knowledge of the facts pays money , which he is not in law bound to pay , and in circumstances implying that he is paying it voluntarily to close the transaction , he can not recover it . |
| 12 | The trustee , the debtor and any person stating in writing that he is a creditor may , at all reasonable times , inspect the file of proceedings ( r 7.31 ) . |
| 13 | He has in writing that he is to be used — only — as an offensive midfielder both in games and — in training — . |
| 14 | Everybody hates a bad leaver but , whereas in the West you can usually close the door on a guest who has finally reached the garden gate , in the islands it is impolite to stop waving and chanting until he is either round a corner and out of sight , or else too distant to be able to see the whites of his eyes . |
| 15 | LOOKING like he is appearing in some designer-conscious jeans advert , Nicholas Cage steps out of a big white gas guzzler on a sun-baked road in Wyoming . |
| 16 | It is raining and he is hostile but beauty always moves the goal-posts ; no sooner has he said , ‘ Go away . |
| 17 | He is so intent on scoring that he is often unaware of the need to pass to supporting players in a better position . |
| 18 | Eventually deciding that he is bringing discredit on all Jews by serving Fledgeby as he does , Riah quits his service , and takes up his abode with Jenny Wren . |
| 19 | Rik Mayall , confirming that he is only capable of playing one character , is Phoebe Cates ' imaginary childhood friend who comes back to pester her when insecurity afflicts her in adulthood . |
| 20 | ‘ We will be interviewing him about what happened but obviously he is in no fit state for us to talk to him yet and we will be waiting until he is well enough , ’ a police spokesman said . |
| 21 | I sit and stare for some time , wondering if he is sick . |
| 22 | Pauline sold him at weaning and he is now another family 's pride and joy . |
| 23 | If the accused leaves without paying because he is absent-minded , he is not liable , and remains not guilty even though he discovers his mistake afterwards . |
| 24 | May I help you by suggesting that if you could persuade the Prime Minister to fix the election date now there would be no need for this pre-election period — if the Prime Minister would stop shilly-shallying because he is afraid of going to the country . |
| 25 | He has to stop speaking as he is overcome with grief . |
| 26 | Mr Beregovoy has been quoted as saying that he is not ashamed to be called a social democrat . |
| 27 | I 'm just saying that he is here . |
| 28 | She complains bitterly about Mr Smith saying that he is ‘ a lazy , good-for-nothing drunk ’ whose first wife ‘ had the best years of him ’ . |
| 29 | She complains bitterly about Mr Smith saying that he is ‘ a lazy , good-for-nothing drunk ’ whose first wife ‘ had the best years of him ’ . |
| 30 | The England manager , upset by the way his comments were interpreted after the European championship , has gone on record as saying that he is mis-understood , that he can not shake off the association with the long ball game from his formative years at Watford . |