Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] he is [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three hundred years later he is remembered as an honourable man , an epithet to be prized above the highest awards attainable . |
| 2 | He does however ride a bike and is already able to throw and kick balls where he is aiming them . |
| 3 | His jewel being Gleneagles where he is commemorated by a hole called ‘ Braid 's Brawest ’ . |
| 4 | He will invest it while he is in jail , and use it in socially beneficial ways when he is released , while they will spend it on imported luxuries . |
| 5 | But even during those few seconds when he is changing he is on one horse or the other . |
| 6 | ( 2 ) Nothing in subsection ( 1 ) above shall prohibit or restrict : ( a ) the consumption of alcoholic liquor in any premises at any time within fifteen minutes after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if such liquor was supplied in those premises during the permitted hours ; ( b ) the taking of alcoholic liquor from any premises within fifteen minutes after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if such liquor was supplied in those premises during the permitted hours and was not supplied or taken away in an open vessel ; ( c ) the sale or supply to , or consumption by , any person of alcoholic liquor in any premises where he is residing ; ( d ) the taking of alcoholic liquor from any premises by a person residing there ; ( e ) the supply of alcoholic liquor , in any premises , for consumption on those premises , to any private friends of a person residing there who are bona fide entertained by , and at the expense of , that person , or the consumption by such friends of alcoholic liquor so supplied to them ; the ordering of alcoholic liquor to be consumed off the premises or the despatch by the vendor of liquor so ordered ; ( g ) the supply of alcoholic liquor for consumption on licensed premises to any private friends of the holder of the licence bona fide entertained by him at his own expense , or the consumption of alcoholic liquor by persons so supplied ; ( h ) the consumption of alcoholic liquor at a meal by any person at any time within half an hour after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if the liquor was supplied during the permitted hours and served at the same time as the meal and for consumption at the meal ; ( i ) the sale of alcoholic liquor to a trader for the purposes of his trade , or to a registered club for the purposes of the club ; or ( j ) the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor to any canteen in which the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor is carried on under the authority of the Secretary of State or to any authorised mess of members of Her Majesty 's naval , military or air forces . |
| 7 | There is also an exemption in the case of the supply of alcoholic liquor for the consumption of friends of a resident who are being bona fide entertained by him at his expense at the premises where he is residing ( e ) . |
| 8 | But this man will pull no punches when he is irked : as the head of the Thatcher loyalists determined that she should fight to the end , he threatened to floor a Thatcher aide who was guarding her door unless he allowed him in to see her . |
| 9 | There are moments when he is possessed , quite out of his own control . |
| 10 | Though , for TV purposes , he is the star of its set-piece showbiz extravaganzas , and of carefully staged ‘ meet the people ’ events where he is surrounded by the Labour faithful , he has been , throughout the campaign , the most carefully guarded party leader in our electoral history . |