Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] he be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not even complain to the British Medical Association — as I was in law entitled so to do — about the gross impertinence of a certain toothy and incompetent doctor in this very borough who imagined in his stupidity that I was incapable of reading upside-down the notes he was making on the other side of a desk at which I was once unwise enough to sit . |
| 2 | In Edie 's company Minton had drinks with H. E. Bates in 1949 , at his home at Great Chart , in connection with the illustrations he was designing for Bates 's The Country Heart , a revised compilation of his two previous books , O More than Happy Countryman and The Heart of the Country . |
| 3 | By analysing the products he is selling in this way , a salesman will communicate in terms which are meaningful to buyers and therefore be more convincing . |
| 4 | The fingers he was scratching under his arm with were crossed . |
| 5 | As he turned to return down the steps he was thinking of Carrie once more and not taking care where he was stepping . |
| 6 | Even the pods he was giving to the pigs , he would have liked to have eaten himself . |
| 7 | He guessed that these effects might be due to intoxication by one of the compounds he was working with , and confirmed his idea by deliberate experiment . |
| 8 | ‘ Every club years ago had a tough-tackling defender in their side but they did n't resort to the tactics he is talking about . |
| 9 | We must distinguish the belief that a speaker has about the words he is using from the belief that he is using those words to express . |
| 10 | First , there is his attitude towards the texts he is writing about : because writing can never be governed by the intention and avowed aims of its authors , Derrida finds himself saying of Rousseau , for example , that what he actually writes is quite different from what he means to say : that he is bound , as we all are , to say ‘ more , less or something quite other than what he would mean/would like to say [ voudrait dire ] ’ ( 1976 : 158 ] . |
| 11 | Keener feels that his lack of technical background is a distinct advantage ; it also means that he sets a large amount of trust in the engineers he is working with . |
| 12 | Edward 's trouble was that the tell-tales he was looking for , the subtle marks of treachery , were the main — and open — subject of the conversation . |
| 13 | But Henry was more concerned about the political repercussions of the advances he was making on the Continent than about the troubles of the church of Canterbury . |
| 14 | She became very busy with the packages he was stacking on the jetty . |
| 15 | So we know , we should and remember of course that in the book Freud chooses two examples as Joy told me the church and the army and these are just examples and of course Freud chooses them partly because they 're very big groups so they in some ways they er exemplify the principles he 's talking about because clearly in a small group like this you could say well look , what is going on is really I mean we all have , we all know each other and it 's a face-to-face group and really what happens here is an of the dynamics group and I think it is actually . |
| 16 | She found his sophistication so overwhelming that she needed a space in order to assimilate all the things he was introducing into her life . |
| 17 | Yeah now that 's , that 's probably worth mentioning to Dave because I think one of the things he was talking about doing was instead of one of the tests or something making people hand in either some sort of lab book or some sort of record of the practical so far this term erm |
| 18 | Ken persuaded him to cut the portions he was making for Orton and himself into three . |
| 19 | And since , unlike many wives of city moguls , she 'd had recent experience at the sharp end of business in the City of London , she understood , only too clearly , the problems he was facing at the present time . |
| 20 | Nilsen was finally arrested when pieces of the corpses he was flushing down the toilet blocked the drain . |
| 21 | Guided by his new-found friend , Charles studied Jung and also the work of economist and philosopher E. F. Schumacher , who wrote a book entitled Small Is Beautiful ; over the years the Prince has found many of the answers he was searching for . |
| 22 | ‘ Hillary has the analytic ability to make certain that the decisions he is leaning toward are iron-clad . ’ |
| 23 | Both Arsenal and Forest would struggle to match even half the wages he is earning in Italy and would be reluctant to smash their rigid pay structures . |
| 24 | inserting common paragraphs , for example if half the students make the same mistake , it is useful for the marker to prepare a paragraph explaining the error , and to paste this into each of the documents he is returning to the errant students . |
| 25 | I 'm not at all happy about the way he washed the clothes he was wearing on Friday night . ’ |
| 26 | The doctor cut off all the drugs he was taking with no ill effects . |
| 27 | Looking about him , he could see that tiny segments of woodwork from the floor he was waxing and polishing and from the doors he was stripping of paint , had been removed with delicate precision . |
| 28 | Newspaper accounts of open-cast coal workings led him to Cowdenbeath in Fife and after several visits he found the remains he was locking for . |
| 29 | Anyway , he gave them a few examples of the jobs he was looking for and they told him he was unqualified . |
| 30 | The dolls he was looking at now were old and battered , their clothes colourless and torn . |