Example sentences of "[adv] he [be] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he came down he was wearing a professional air and said the symptoms were those of food poisoning . |
| 2 | Well perhaps he 's buying a bleeding washing machine |
| 3 | Perhaps he was imagining the whole thing . |
| 4 | On another level , perhaps he was fighting a wayward spirit he could not control . |
| 5 | He 's a builder fair enough but nevertheless he 's doing a good job . |
| 6 | He was not without fault , foolish in his commercial life , reactionary sometimes in his political belief , nevertheless he is entitled no more to the title of the Great Unknown , but now to that of the Great Scotsman . |
| 7 | When it was over he was given a Military Cross by the British , and the Croix de Guerre by the French . |
| 8 | The system now employs feedback to tell the operator whether or not he is achieving the desired result and , if not , the size of the error . |
| 9 | Stone said nothing for a moment , staring at the CI5 man , perhaps still not sure of whether or not he was doing the right thing . |
| 10 | The father-of-three became chairman of the Bar Council in 1972 and three years later he was made a High Court Judge and was immediately appointed to the Chancery Division . |
| 11 | A few minutes later he was uncorking a fine claret in Masha 's room , saying he had something to celebrate : he 'd been invited to breakfast at Downing Street to help brief Maggie for her trip to Poland . |
| 12 | Two months later he was fined a further £100 and banned from the touchline until the end of that season for remarks to a linesman during a game at Dundee United . |
| 13 | Later he was to advise the next Lord Petre on planting around a proposed new home and again he wrote to Bartram for plants . |
| 14 | Seconds later he was backing an ancient Bedford van out of the driveway . |
| 15 | Whenever he was shown a new sexual technique , he would use it the very next night on his new partner . |
| 16 | So now he 's trying the same way here . |
| 17 | Last month he starred as the poor man 's hero in the film Robin Hood and now he 's playing a wealthy land agent in Granada TV 's new series , The Real Charlotte , which starts next Monday . |
| 18 | Miss J. has pretty well run him and now he 's doing a roaring trade and has just married a daughter of Lord Lytton , he 's evidently right in with the right lot of people … and what a God 's mercy that for once in a way these people have got hold of the right man and what a thing for England . ’ |
| 19 | For the past two years he 's been dreaming of bringing the marathon to Nepal … now he 's planning the big day … |
| 20 | ‘ And now he is playing a little game with you . ’ |
| 21 | Now he is forging a new career as a poet , author and songwriter . |
| 22 | And now he was passing a second and more dilapidated pillbox and it struck him that the whole headland had the desolate look of an old battlefield , the corpses long since carted away but the air vibrating still with the gunfire of long-lost battles , while the power station loomed over it like a grandiose modern monument to the unknown dead . |
| 23 | Now he was placing the last , low down on her wrist . |
| 24 | Now he was saying the same thing . |
| 25 | It turned out he was escaping a planned course of ECT because no one on his ward believed he might have a drink problem . |
| 26 | Often he was fighting a lonely battle . |
| 27 | Today he 's living a quiet life in Bromyard . |
| 28 | Today he was wearing a clerical collar , as was , more often than Canon Wheeler , his habit . |
| 29 | Zen seemed to see again that glare of hostility and hear the Questore murmur , ‘ Until today he was handling the Miletti case for us . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Until today he was handling the Miletti case for us . ’ |