Example sentences of "he [is] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is wearing only the pads and a pink jockstrap . |
| 2 | ‘ He is getting on a bit , he is going grey round the whiskers and has a milky white coat . |
| 3 | Act 1 scene 7. in which he is laying down the reasons to himself for not killing the king he even admits to himself that his ambition is very powerful ‘ vaulting ambition ’ . |
| 4 | He is seen here a year later with his Tomahawk fighter when once more serving in North Africa . |
| 5 | From these sources he is piecing together the vocabulary and grammar of Gothic . |
| 6 | When Florence of Worcester draws elements of his account of the battle of Assandun in 1016 from Sallust he is revealing quite a lot about the classical interests of twelfth-century historians , but also raising doubts about his own reliability , and William of Malmesbury , whose methods so often find favour with modern scholars , nevertheless records miracle stories which his critical faculties ought to have led him to doubt , and perhaps did ; and like historians of all periods , William , Florence and their colleagues were at the mercy of the bias and inadequacy of their sources , as well as their own prejudices and errors . |
| 7 | He is permitted absolutely no contact with other inmates . |
| 8 | Kant does not think he is putting forward a doctrine on the basis of which ordinary morality can be criticised , but that he has formulated the principles by which all good people implicitly know they should , and in their hearts do , judge their conduct . |
| 9 | In addition , with a don at the University of Sussex , he is putting together a book on the experience of being European . |
| 10 | However , he is climbing up the weights and may find this trip a shade on the short side . |
| 11 | He can not understand that he is waiting only a matter of moments before his desire will be satisfied . |
| 12 | In this way , the hypnotist is not making me attack against my will , he is conjuring up a set of circumstances in which to attack seems the lesser of two evil courses . |
| 13 | He is selling out the workers ' rights and , by doing so , the future of any United Kingdom Parliament . |
| 14 | Yeah and erm yeah , he 's keep up the joke . |
| 15 | He 's looking out the window now . |
| 16 | Yeah I think he 's dressing up a revolution |
| 17 | Now Henry lives near Henley , and while he would sneer at the Hooray Henries crowding that town 's regatta ( in true , no-frills , Aussie style ) , he 's become quite a showman himself . |
| 18 | He 's about my height but he 's filled out a bit since he came here and he has a kind of stoop now which makes him look smaller and older than he is . |
| 19 | Well you know what he 's trying to do , he 's trying up the claim so when back , he 's still gon na get the amount that he wants so he said t to Jim something about , he is n't paying the insurance I said you 're joking ! |
| 20 | I 'm directing his energy and he 's bringing out the humour in me , at last , which ca n't be a bad thing . ’ |
| 21 | After all , Bush has nothing to lose — he 's handing over the White House to Clinton . |
| 22 | Stipe sings for the main part in the first person , though it 's unclear if he 's taking on a character or being genuinely autobiographical for the most part . |
| 23 | As well as the speed , he 's getting quite a taste for the adulation from friends and relatives . |
| 24 | He 's propping up the daisies . |
| 25 | So he 's filling in the application form of the dating agency , he said the girl 's got to be five foot ten , living in China , |
| 26 | Hnatiuk at the bank said he 's always had quite a good balance in his savings account — for a kid — and he 's deposited quite a bit of money recently . |
| 27 | And if your victim happens to be conveniently close to the edge of a tall cliff , by the time he 's bounced down a couple of hundred metres on to the rocks , he 'll be in such a mess that the injury from the blow stands a good chance of being overlooked . |
| 28 | Anyway , he sees this fat cunt with some of his mates with some tea — and he 's moved along a bit to the end and he 's pissing down and out through the open bit and its all blowing down on these cunts ’ heads and into their |
| 29 | what he , he 's moving , he 's moving actually a bit more towards the East End model in Glasgow |
| 30 | He 's back at the main menu , he 's calling up the directory , the very List of Lists , the brain surgeon 's own encephalogram . |