Example sentences of "he [is] [verb] [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | STEVE OJOMOH flies to Lanzarote with the England squad this week sensing he is fated to play for the country that tried to deport him . |
| 2 | In pairs one partner assumes the role of any one of the people in the photograph and tells the other ( a colleague , friend or relative ) why he is tempted to go on the journey . |
| 3 | Following the success of Jamie Delgado in the Orange Bowl tournament in Florida in December , Lloyd confirms that he is looking to expand upon the squad scheme from which Delgado has emerged . |
| 4 | Although it is the Lord Chancellor who makes orders closing records for longer than the normal thirty year period , in practice he is bound to rely on the advice of other departments . |
| 5 | ( c ) Money paid to a person for the performance of a statutory duty , which he is bound to perform for a sum less than that charged by him , is also recoverable to the extent of the overcharge . |
| 6 | Biggins is regarded as the GM Vauxhall Conference 's most gifted midfielder , and with Brighton sliding down the Second Division and £2.5 million in the red , the 29-year-old says he is determined to put on a show that will humiliate the home side . |
| 7 | He is cursed to stare into a mirror , preening himself , and then the reflection in the mirror suddenly changes , as does the appearance of the young man to match his reflection . |
| 8 | Even if he is trying to attend to the perspectival appearance presented to his point of view he may get it wrong . |
| 9 | He is trying to force through an entirely new system of democratic election by exploiting an arithmetical vagary of our existing one . |
| 10 | He is dressed to kill with no place to go . |
| 11 | ‘ It will be useless to observe to the Society that it is of the greatest importance to procure a place as soon as possible , if the Professor is not enabled to begin his Lectures by Christmas ( 1791 ) the establishment will be put off for one year — the Zootomy being strictly the first part he is to begin to teach to the pupils , which everyone knows could not be attempted in the Summer — and it would be feared too long a delay might hurt the success of the establishment . ’ |
| 12 | The weakness is not in truth as the object of belief ; the weakness is in the believer since he is failing to enter into the essential obligations of believing . |
| 13 | Mr Heseltine has confirmed to us that he is going to talk to the Chancellor on this matter , and I believe he has done so ’ . |
| 14 | Will the Minister explain what he is going to say to the people of the Holloway area who find themselves in the unenviable position of having the jobcentre with the largest gap between the number of vacancies and the number of registered unemployed ? |
| 15 | Antony says how , basically , that he is going to lie about the conspirators , and the crowd will know he is meaning the opposite . |
| 16 | The GP needs to have information if he is going to look after the patient properly : he needs to know what has happened during the infarct , how severe it was , what evidence there was of heart failure , and whether the angina recurred . |
| 17 | The servant warns him if he is going to step into a hole , and reminds him to reply if someone speaks to him . |
| 18 | He has remarkably little choice of action or initiative if he is going to comply with the flight manual and his company 's operations manual and at the same time carry out an economic flight . |
| 19 | Now he must be wondering how he is going to get through the week . |
| 20 | GEOFF THOMAS was just 19 minutes away from joining the millionaires ' club — now he is left to reflect on a season bankrupt of good memories . |
| 21 | After all , the slickers he is set to meet in the Lionel Vick Handicap Chase include two winners at the Cheltenham Festival . |
| 22 | He is required to deputize for the Assistant Dean and Dean as and when necessary . |
| 23 | He is fancied to win inside the distance and the American 's cut man can anticipate a busy night . |
| 24 | Under the writ of acceleration procedure he is allowed to sit in the Lords , as Lord Cecil , even though his father , the Marquess of Salisbury , is still alive . |
| 25 | He is expected to return in the Prix Niel . |
| 26 | He is expected to leave within the next couple of weeks , and his lawyers are understood to be negotiating a settlement . |
| 27 | Bernard 's choice of guitar is decided by the kind of sound he 's looking to achieve on a particular song . |
| 28 | Er I think what he 's trying to say about the rich peasants is that er that they were always resisting the movement , it was only later on when they find that you know , that they , they need to get involved otherwise their own positions are er threatened then , then they 're joining and they 're only joining but were not actually participating in it , they 're not moving along , and so that 's what , that 's why he 's making a distinction between different types of peasants . |
| 29 | It 's a romantic notion I know — but to me , with his system idling yet the brain activity so intense , I think it 's as if he 's trying to come to a decision . ’ |
| 30 | But I thought well he 's trying to get over a dog . |