Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [conj] he [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | undermine your opponent 's credibility by : questioning his experience suggesting that he is losing control negotiating to the point of his mental exhaustion |
| 2 | A bail hearing later heard that Atcheson carried a UDA card stating that he was entitled to collect for Loyalists Prisoners ' Aid . |
| 3 | He has been a professional for almost two years and has a ring record of nine wins out of 10 contests , his lone defeat coming when he was out-pointed by Manchester 's Russell Davison for the Central Area title . |
| 4 | And we did n't know we could see her and we were looking out the window going and he was there looking , put his sunglasses on to see . |
| 5 | One night I dreamed I was a butterfly and , upon waking , was never able to discern whether I was a man who had dreamed that he was a butterfly or a butterfly dreaming that he was a man . |
| 6 | He hoped Barbara could read the sub-text here : that if she was offering him some kind of invitation — and he was not for a moment suggesting that he was worthy of such a thing if she were — then he was regretfully declining it , on the understanding that both of them knew why . |
| 7 | The two men eventually fell into conversation , the late-comer explaining that he was a director of the railway company and that he was interested in a new branch line that was to be opened . |
| 8 | Lisa blinked up at him , for a moment wondering if he was joking , but there was not a shadow of humour in the dark eyes that met her own . |
| 9 | A prisoner is on the roof of a top security jail protesting that he 's innocent of murder . |
| 10 | A prisoner is on the roof of a top security jail protesting that he 's innocent of murder . |
| 11 | This is to prevent a copier claiming that he was the first to develop the topography in question . |
| 12 | Sergeant Major , you 've been in the Army for about nigh on twenty years now , do you think that a soldier has to be able to cope with that sort of taunting and name calling when he 's on the streets of Belfast for example . |
| 13 | I shall give the hon. Member for Blackburn ( Mr. Straw ) time to read the newspaper cutting that he was trying to wave at us to make his great point . |
| 14 | Clarence had sexual intercourse with his wife knowing that he was suffering from venereal disease and without disclosing this fact to her . |
| 15 | He was left out while the first team travelled to Blackburn with speculation mounting that he was as much as 6lb too heavy . |
| 16 | Later that week believing that he was in no danger he returned to Rochester to keep the festival of All Saints . |
| 17 | ‘ Just what 're you getting at , young Angel ? ’ he asked , narrowing his eyes the same way he did when he had a cigarette going and he was looking in a petrol tank . |
| 18 | ‘ Immediately after the crash I could n't feel the baby moving and he was normally a quite active baby , ’ she said . |
| 19 | ‘ Immediately after the crash I could n't feel the baby moving and he was normally a quite active baby . ’ |
| 20 | I remember my father saying when he was a very old man , ‘ Technique you can learn . |
| 21 | The ridden horse 's ears may be at half mast indicating that he is relaxed and listening to his rider . |
| 22 | If the proxy was signed by the proxyholder himself , he can not vote in favour of any remuneration being paid to himself unless he produced written authorisation from his principal showing that he was entitled to sign the proxy . |
| 23 | A liar or perjurer stood in the docks , a great whetstone round his neck , a placard proclaiming that he was a false perjurer and breaker of oaths ; beside him a hapless youth who had stolen a leg of mutton and was standing there with the piece of meat , now well decaying and buzzing with flies , slung round his neck . |
| 24 | She listened to his calm voice explaining that he was not available and if she would like to leave a message … but the message she would like to have left was far too complicated , so she rang off without saying anything . |
| 25 | His head started to swim ; he heard a voice enquiring whether he was all right , and blacked out . |
| 26 | Then out of the blue he got a phone call asking if he was still interested in the car as it had to be sold to make space for the family . |
| 27 | A police spokesman said last night that Mr Kelsey 's condition was not life threatening and he was likely to be discharged from hospital today . |
| 28 | ‘ Smile , ’ he said , his voice indicating that he was certainly grinning like a Cheshire cat . |
| 29 | Even with Sackville 's favour Bowyer failed to secure more than the reversion in 1597 to the clerkship of the parliaments , the successful candidate averring that he was unfit ‘ by reason of a great imperfection he hath in his speech ’ . |
| 30 | She says one boy has gone back to bed wetting because he 's so worried . |