Example sentences of "he is [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But your ability to sympathise with him is powerfully lessened by the fact that this hero is also an immature prig and lying snob , whose principal objection to Helena is her social inferiority . |
| 2 | As for rearing the child in a laboratory , the unit prepared for him is not equipped with bunsen burners and retorts and animal cages . |
| 3 | By now it must be obvious that bullying him is n't going to work . |
| 4 | ‘ Whatever club or staff was used on him is surely gone with the man who used it , but if the poor wretch 's corpse can tell us anything , let us discover it before we move him . ’ |
| 5 | Support for him is slowly growing among influential Tories . |
| 6 | He is firmly committed to the principle that Drama can stand on its own as an academic subject . |
| 7 | He is firmly established in the half back line , which allows him the luxury of being able to press forward in support of his attacking colleagues . |
| 8 | High levels of spatial mobility are involved as he is regularly posted to regions where the multinational is operating . |
| 9 | An RUC officer said : ‘ He is regularly stopped at road checks by our patrols . |
| 10 | Here , according to Acts , he is officially admitted to the Nazarean Party . |
| 11 | He is equally unforthcoming about how he gets written out of Neighbours ; Joe Mangle will be no more in the New Year , but he wo n't reveal how . |
| 12 | Many know him as the British jazz singer , but he is equally respected for his brilliance as a film and tv critic , modern art expert , writer and fisherman . |
| 13 | The clearest reflection of the way in which the full implications of Marsh 's book were not appreciated in physical geography is shown in the fact that he is not referred to in relation to the history of the study of landforms before Davis ( Chorley , Dunn and Beckinsale , 1964 ) , or in Explanation in Geography ( Harvey , 1969 ) , in Geography Its History and Concepts ( Holt-Jensen , 1981 ) or in Geography and Geographers : Anglo-American Human Geography ( Johnston , 1979 , 1983a ) . |
| 14 | But when Colin Mackenzie , regional director of Fairclough Civil Engineering , a main contractor on the project , talks about a ‘ hard-nosed bunch ’ he is not referring to his men . |
| 15 | ‘ He is not acting in the best interests of national heritage . |
| 16 | Where the contract is between a businessman and a party who is not a businessman , usually a consumer , it seems from s 1(3) ( a ) that the businessman will incur " business liability " ( and hence is caught by s 2(1) ) , while the other party can not incur " business liability " , since by definition he is not acting in the course of a business , and therefore will not be caught by the section . |
| 17 | Apart from anything else , that 'll ensure the court that he is not tempted to be involved in any similar incident in the future with is girlfriend . |
| 18 | He is not looking for people who can make decisions for him , but people through whom he can implement his decisions . |
| 19 | But the co-ordinator of the elderly peoples ' service development programme Paul Cousins says he is not looking for uniformity . |
| 20 | The topic he is speaking on is one which interests him greatly ( much more so than his own lecture topic ) but it is also one on which he is not recognised as an authoritative speaker . |
| 21 | He describes how he is not invited to a ball at Harrington but waits in the terrace garden to see ‘ Maud ’ afterwards : |
| 22 | He is not ranked by the WBA either but that group would recognise him as champion . |
| 23 | For example , if an employee writes a computer program to help with his work but he is not employed as a computer programmer , his job is not to write computer programs and an employer can not necessarily assume that he owns the copyright in that particular program . |
| 24 | According to decisions of labour courts , no legally enforceable relationship exists between the casual worker and the organization for which he is working in the times when he is not engaged by them . |
| 25 | He is not engaged in some new and unnatural vice . |
| 26 | The Aston Villa manager , whose team can confirm their new favouritism for the crown by building on a two-point lead at the top , insists he is not fooled by Walker 's apparent concession of the title after Norwich 's 3-0 defeat at Wimbledon on Saturday . |
| 27 | He is not trying to be humble , he is genuinely perplexed by the chemistry that exists between himself and other people . |
| 28 | His simple , understandable but rich symbolism and clever technique show someone who has put his whole heart into the character of his poem , if indeed he is not writing from experience . |
| 29 | If Grom is slain he may still try to regenerate wounds suffered , and if successful he is not killed after all . |
| 30 | He is not named in the charge but the club are accused of breaking all-ticket rules on match-day morning . |