Example sentences of "he [be] [adj] [prep] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he been unfeeling in handing back the bowler 's sweater less than gently ( but by no means callously ) after an over full of backchat by the bowler and his captain ? |
| 2 | As the author of two volumes of poetry in addition to The Golden Gate ) , he is used to skimming off excess verbiage . |
| 3 | He can not look our European partners in the face , because he is preoccupied with looking over his shoulder at his own party . |
| 4 | Now he is confident of shaking off a hamstring strain and extending his ever-present League record to 86 matches since his £1 million move from Leicester . |
| 5 | He might be able to make a decent cup of coffee but I hope for her sake that he is good at washing up afterwards too . |
| 6 | Now he is intent on winning back that international place . |
| 7 | Ideational apraxia is seen when a patient can not carry out a complex sequence of movements , even though he is capable of carrying out each movement individually . |
| 8 | No , honestly , I mean to say , he is capable of bending down ! ’ |
| 9 | He is involved with carrying out community care assessments . |
| 10 | He is meticulous in phoning back anyone who calls when he 's out . |
| 11 | I mean he 's used to going out , but he , you still get used to not going out as well do n't you ? |
| 12 | ‘ He says he 's interested in building up a representative collection of primitive and tribal art , but when we tell him the best place to look is in his own back yard , as it were , he tells us he does n't want Abo art , ’ James said , trying unsuccessfully to pronounce the last two words of his sentence with what he imagined was an Australian accent . |
| 13 | ‘ Treating him as if he 's incapable of making up his own mind about anything . |
| 14 | Bradshaw 's technique , his whole life , was built on the twin pillars of strength and stamina ; he was used to taking on an unbeatable opposition and winning . |
| 15 | She had meant to wait until he was asleep before slipping out to phone Dana , but the long , nerve-racking day had caught up with her . |
| 16 | Mr Jack Hayward , the wealthy benefactor , claimed that the article meant that he was guilty of participating in or condoning a murder plot . |
| 17 | I must admit I kept him tied up for longer than I was advised as I wanted to make sure he was capable of moving about safely as he invariably would want to look out of the door and then go back to his food . |
| 18 | Manuel had not been able to improve on par the first day but everyone knew he was capable of making up a lot of leeway with one of his famous ‘ charges . ’ |
| 19 | He was near to breaking down . |
| 20 | Belinda had stumbled upon him one day several months ago when he was alone in a little-used store-room at the far end of the ward , and she had seen immediately that he was near to breaking down . |
| 21 | He was responsible for drawing up the first comprehensive anti-drugs strategy , unveiled in September 1989 , which involved increased spending , heavier penalties for casual users and incentives to drug-producing countries to clamp down on narcotics production . |
| 22 | He was active in building up Edward 's anti-French coalition in the Low Countries in 1296–7 , negotiated for a truce with France in 1298 , attended the papal curia in 1300–1 , helped to settle the terms for a final French peace in 1303 , and was among those sent again to the curia by Edward in 1305 to seek the suspension of Robert de Winchelsea [ q.v. ] , archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 23 | He would have graduated from sweeping the floor , running errands and being a " reading boy " in his first two years , to distributing type and learning the case , then to typesetting and if he was lucky to making up and imposition , though rarely to the refinements of display work . |
| 24 | He was afraid of falling off . |
| 25 | He was ruthless about chucking out weaklings , and Kate now houses his brilliant and vigorous collection in her greenhouse , on behalf of his widow . |
| 26 | So , when Caine told Peter Langan that he was interested in setting up a British restaurant along the lines of La Coupole , Langan found it an irresistible proposition . |
| 27 | A keen player of games at school , he was interested in finding out what local facilities offered in terms of learning and practising new sports in the holidays . |
| 28 | In the early 1930s he was instrumental in setting up the child department of the Institute of Psychoanalysis . |
| 29 | Does the Prime Minister recall my earlier concern that the parameters that he was instrumental in drawing up at the Rome summit , to separate an incipient European Community defence policy from NATO 's responsibilities for the defence of Europe , should be preserved ? |
| 30 | He was sick of living out the legend of the Tech-Green wunderkind , sick too of the work he was involved in and the knowledge that went with it . |