Example sentences of "[is] [conj] he [verb] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 It 's not the buying them that 's cunning , it 's just that I ca n't help being grateful ( I did n't actually say I was grateful , but I was n't sharp ) , it 's that he presents them so humbly , with such an air of please-don't-thank-me and I-deserve-it-all .
2 The personal tragedy that befalls Gibson 's character in ‘ Forever Young ’ is that he loses his childhood sweetheart in an accident before he has plucked up the courage to propose marriage .
3 I said he seemed like a nice kid , and Hart said : ‘ The story is that he killed somebody , when he was thirteen years old . ’
4 What is most important , however , is that he embodies them in a distinction , crucially important for his thought , between two sorts of science : ‘ indefinite science ’ , which ‘ consists in the knowledge of the causes of all things ’ , and the study of some ‘ limited ’ question about the ‘ cause of some determined appearance ’ such as heat .
5 A felicitous footnote to that incident is that he got his cake after all .
6 The other is that he heard me following , and staged the attack on himself , with the help of some accomplice unknown — for it could n't have been done alone , could it ? — to put himself in the clear , and immobilise me long enough for the other person to get away , and the body to be well downstream .
7 The consequence ( usually ) is that he achieves his goal ; he coerces you both into giving way a very rewarding state of affairs seen from his point of view , a very unrewarding ( and sometimes humiliating ) state of affairs seen from your perspective .
8 The truth , more probably , is that he laid them aside to take on commissions for which he would be paid : at this stage in his life he could not afford to compose for sheer pleasure . )
9 Look at Carlos Lopes — I would n't compare myself with Lopes , but the fact is that he ran his fastest 10K while he was training for a marathon [ Lopes ran the then second fastest ever 10,000m , with 17:17.48 in July 1984 , just one month before winning the Olympic marathon in a record 2:09.21 ] .
10 All I hope is that he gets whoever attacked Anna- and gets him quickly . ’
11 Sutton-born Geoff Chilvers had been with the Palace as a Junior in the early days of the 2nd World War and had appeared at Selhurst Park in an interesting schoolboy game that was used as an experiment with numbered players , but his extraordinary claim to footballing fame , which will delight fans with a statistical quirk in their nature , is that he made his debut with a League club as a 16-year-old in a match where his side scored double figures .
12 What is certain is that he made his way there , ignoring all warning from mortal and immortal alike .
13 All I know is that he thought you would be pleasantly surprised . ’
14 What surprises me is that he said it in public . ’
15 The most obvious is that he felt it himself : to him his fictions were what the Silmarils were to Fëanor or their ships to the Teleri , ‘ the work of our hearts , whose like we shall not make again' .
16 One possible answer for Ian being found away from his family is that he knew he was in danger , and expected them to come after him .
17 If an owner dwelt in the township where his land was situated the logical inference is that he occupied it himself , although there was nothing to prevent him letting off part or all of it : the Langley Marish man Richard Collis features as ‘ tenaunt to ye Queene , in landes the yerely rente , vs ’ .
18 His real problem is that he believes it all .
19 The trouble with the hon. Gentleman is that he believes his own propaganda .
20 Only information I gathered from him is that he abandoned his yacht because he thought his spare fuel tank was going to blow up .
21 One of the advantages a child has when learning his first language is that he has lots of opportunity to hear it without being called upon to speak .
22 the important is that he knows what you 're on and why you 're on it , and you can tell him that .
23 Another thing about Steven Hughes Conference is that he knows what he 's talking about , on on shop floor iss issues like health and safety and those colleagues who were present at the launch of the G M B's National Health and Safety Campaign will confirm that especially the way he described the Chief Executive of the Health and Safety Executive .
24 What Pausanias implies is that he found nothing in this source about the Celtic art of divination which had been extolled by Posidonius and other authorities .
25 As for the former chairman himself the greatest pity of all is that he found it necessary to go without finding a successor for himself .
26 Perhaps the most fitting tribute to their son is that he gave his life to a mission which may have saved many more .
27 The tragedy of man is that he declares himself autonomous of God and in consequence is condemned to live East of Eden .
28 I 'm ready to believe yowl admit of their recommendations all I presume to say of him is that he writes me he shall be really dilligent and the enclosed specimens he has grown which I hope yowl puruse make it look as if he would prove so .
29 And the only way these can make a difference is if he shares them , tests them out , listens to other ideas and looks for ways to put them into practice .
30 Budgie was a great part and I loved playing Frank Carver in Love Hurts erm and I did n't when when I was asked to do i , well w actually i it was n't a series , the writers and I were put together by a man called Alan who 's now my partner in Alfie as well he 's and he asked me why was n't I working and would he would I mind being put together with the two writers .
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