Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If what he has to say is worth hearing , why is n't the interviewer recording what he says ? |
| 2 | Advertising manager Peter Matthews confirmed the review , which he says has been under way for some time . |
| 3 | It appeared that the roof Billy had fallen off was in one Coroner 's jurisdiction , but where he 'd landed was in another 's . |
| 4 | First though he had to make sure that the person he burned to confront was in fact there . |
| 5 | His face was so familiar that he seemed to have been with the production for weeks . |
| 6 | He claimed to have been at the Munich Olympics in 1972 while serving with the US Army , and seemed particularly proud of a photograph of himself in officer 's uniform ( without apparently realising that the insignia were incorrect ) . |
| 7 | She stared away from them and up beyond the cage towards the grey sky , and Creggan saw in her eyes a longing and a hope that he sensed had been with her all her long life , and was with her even now when he saw she was so near death . |
| 8 | after leading Sunderland to the FA Cup final last May.But he appears to have been on borrowed time ever since . |
| 9 | But he appears to have been on borrowed time ever since . |
| 10 | Davidson 's party political position may make him a more objective source than those more closely involved , and he appears to have been in a good position to know what was going on . |
| 11 | He appears to have been in partnership before 1812 with Daniel Beale , who had founded the agency business then known as Beale , Reid & Co . |
| 12 | At the outset he seems to have been on congenial terms with Palmerston , but their relationship went sour during Hall 's two-and-a-half years at the Office of Works : and almost from the date of Hall 's appointment , events started to go badly for Pennethorne . |
| 13 | Apparently , he never wore much jewellery , unlike the majority of nobles that visited him , but that which he did wear was of fabulously high value . |
| 14 | Although well equipped , he had intended being on the mountain for just one day , and had taken only a packed lunch , water , and some chocolate with him . |
| 15 | What he had to do was to " live apart from men , as far as the needs of the body allow … continually upheld by him whom I love " ( 31.142 ) . |
| 16 | Well the Solicitors turned round and said to him that there 's a twenty five per cent chance he 'll lose his licence , but then he 'll get there erm , but most he 'll probably get is about a month , and then he said , well surely your job could find you something to do in that time , has said , no licence , no job , so what he had to do was to . |
| 17 | As he was a brilliant classical scholar , it is possible that he realized that what he had discovered was in line with one of Hippocrates ' systems , formulated so many centuries before . |
| 18 | The men he had suspected were in prison serving life sentences . |
| 19 | The sense of urgency , of anger , of relentless pursuit , did not leave him but he felt once more the bitterness of inadequacy , the realisation that the task he had undertaken was beyond his personal power . |
| 20 | The principal injury which he had suffered was to his hip . |
| 21 | Everything he had done was for this final purpose , " that I might dwell among them " ( Exodus 29:43–46 ) . |
| 22 | As it happened , the links he had remade were with the Magharba in Ajdabiya . |
| 23 | He explained that all the answers he had found were in odd numbered positions in the sequence . |
| 24 | In grammar , putting a noun or noun equivalent beside another for the purpose of a more complete explanation or description , eg in The news that he had won surprised Tom , a young lad of eight the clause that he had won is in apposition to the noun news and the phrase a young lad of eight is in apposition to the noun Tom . |
| 25 | It 's so childish of him — any argument he 's got is with the organisers , not me . ’ |