Example sentences of "[verb] he [be] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robinson , who was England B coach with Alan Davies until both were dumped in the summer , reluctantly accepts he is fighting a lost cause : ‘ It is n't going to happen and the situation is beginning to get worrying . |
| 2 | At home in Belgrade , the Serb capital , Mr Milosevic is promoting the Vance-Owen plan in the face of opposition from extreme nationalists , who say he is betraying the Bosnian Serbs , and democrats , who say his nationalism has landed the country in a disastrous mess . |
| 3 | Keepers say he is making the right moves with five females at Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park near Chard , Somerset . |
| 4 | Cynics also believed he was taking a great risk when he cast Jason Donovan and Phillip Schofield in Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat , but both have been great successes . |
| 5 | On the day on which Saad Rashid had received the confirmation of the transaction from Switzerland , he had tidied his desk at the back of the Iraqi Airlines office , taken what few personal possessions he kept there and placed them in his briefcase , locked his door , pocketed his key , and told his assistant manager that he believed he was showing the first symptoms of the ‘ flu that was sweeping London . |
| 6 | The estranged wife of the Marquis of Blandford says he 's making a real effort to get back on the straight and narrow . |
| 7 | Mr Howell says he is asking the chief education officer to investigate the matter urgently . |
| 8 | The individual who is determined to remain calm in the face of aggression , even though he may feel he is doing the right thing , might wonder whether others look down on him and be tempted to behave as others think he should . |
| 9 | On a ship the size of the Ocean Empress it was surprisingly easy , especially when it seemed he was adopting the same principle . |
| 10 | It can be said he was addressing a captive audience … of stooges . |
| 11 | In this case , the Court of Appeal held that there had been a breach of s14(2) as the plaintiff had thought he was buying a second-hand enthusiast 's car in good condition at a fair price when in fact he was buying , at the same price , a car which no one , knowing its history ( a car insurance write-off because it had been submerged in water for over 24 hours ) , would have bought at other than at a substantially reduced price . |
| 12 | In visiting a Catholic school , O'Neill might have thought he was doing no more than acknowledging that Catholics formed a sizeable part of the population of Northern Ireland and that Catholic schools were largely supported from public funds which his government administered . |
| 13 | When he goes on the one day in two years that something went wrong , that shows he 's doing a good job . ’ |
| 14 | The Tutor remains a sympathetic character fur Vera , s sorrow at his departure is echoed by Kolia , Natalia 's son , when he too realises he is losing the only person who has tried to make him happy . |
| 15 | WILEY Arfur Daley reckons he 's found a new way to score against the police — by taking them on at soccer . |
| 16 | When he returned he was holding a thin card in one hand . |
| 17 | He was only gone a moment or two and when he returned he was holding the complete clasp . |
| 18 | ‘ I know he is fighting the mediocre common denominator in politics and life , but is n't he personally an extremely modest man ? ’ |
| 19 | He banged on our door , saying he was running an honest house , not some bawdy shop in Southwark . |
| 20 | ‘ I accused Guy of selling off Chester 's to our rivals , but it appears he was planning the opposite … ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I reckon he was carrying a hundred quid besides his pay . ’ |
| 22 | I storm across the board and topple his bishop or something , then turn round and find he 's closed the back door . |
| 23 | Another from a character called Piman announces he is selling a rare 1978 edition of Be Bop High School for 50,000 yen . |
| 24 | He is confident , brave and agile , and from what we can gather he is rated the best in America . |
| 25 | But despite this , Mr Pacey denies he 's chosen a bad time to go . |
| 26 | Then she saw he was holding a large stick in one hand . |
| 27 | They drew near the trees and Corbett felt he was entering a different world . |
| 28 | I bet he was doing the same the year before . |
| 29 | She 'd never been to Adam 's , but she knew he was renting a small cottage just a few miles away from her own home . |
| 30 | Looking down at him there on my English grass , under my English sun , I knew he was pretending a tie-dyed sky , glass sea , breeze in a fast boat . |