Example sentences of "he [is] [adv] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He s always encouraging the team . |
| 2 | When Hilton talks about meditation , therefore , he is not using the word as a Christian would use it today . |
| 3 | He is not contravening the Act in carrying ( In his business either by himself , by a manager , or by his trustee . |
| 4 | Above all , the conducteur is prominent ; he is not telling the band to stop , since Duport is at this moment ‘ dancing lightly around the hero laid low . ’ |
| 5 | He is not urging the Jews to become more Gentile , or the Gentiles to become more Jewish . |
| 6 | His ability to tell you how he sees things and then show you how he sees things , with the use of film , leaves the viewer wondering why he is not given the whole Without Walls slot . |
| 7 | He is smiling because behind the machine he is not taking the brunt of it , and because he is an earnest yokel who does n't realise what he is doing to people . |
| 8 | He is not denying the possibility of the English language overcoming the mind — body dichotomy nor of the Dinka language expressing it . |
| 9 | in so doing , he is not denying the value at the root of the accusation — namely , that prejudice is wrong . |
| 10 | What is clear is that , in the above passage , he is not making the objection against himself . |
| 11 | If he is not groomed the way he likes ( he 's ultra-ticklish ) , he wrinkles one nostril . |
| 12 | Where the applicant has made repeated unsuccessful requests he may wish to know why he is not obtaining the licence . |
| 13 | ‘ He is not changing the rules . |
| 14 | Chancellor Kenneth Clarke will have to tread more warily if he is n't to destabilize the housing market which has only touched bottom . |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | Despite his own success in 1991 , Roebuck said he is n't guaranteed the fullback role at Eastwood when the season begins . |
| 17 | He may not even realise he is n't giving the others a chance . |
| 18 | Bardolet has gone on to win three rounds in a row — the first hat-trick by a GM Spain driver — but remarkably he is n't leading the championship . |
| 19 | If you see a picture of a golfing great with his hands well in front of the clubhead at impact , you can be sure that he is either playing the type of shot I have just mentioned or he could be squeezing the ball out of a tight lie . |
| 20 | I 'll have a look , but I 've had him doing actual words , like first words er , you know erm , Ben and large and in and out and just the , the easy words and Luke and his own name , so he is already got the idea that when you write a letter you ca n't just write any letter , you 've got to make letters say something either as erm , as an alphabet or in the form of words , so of course she says to , would you all like to write me a sentence , well he 's already passed that stage , he thinks himself well I ca n't write a sentence , what he knows as a sentence consists of words that make sense , so they 're all sitting there going a N , N , N , Q , R , S , N , T , T , and they 're saying a sentence like I went to the shops with my nanny , well Alex has already passed that stage , he knows that that is n't sensible , so he must of turned to her and he said , I ca n't write like that , my mummy will shout at me |
| 21 | I believe he is already carrying the geranium . |
| 22 | An employee may prefer to do this if he is already paying the maximum 15 per cent cent in employee contributions ( including AVCs ) or to maximise tax-free cash . |
| 23 | ‘ Every sort of potato , ’ Spencer laughs , ‘ roast potatoes , mashed potatoes , baked potatoes … ’ his humour shines through constantly , of course he knows what a narrow escape it was , but he is well passed the haunting of it . |
| 24 | He is just calling the office . |
| 25 | He is also addressing the criticism that the Fonds régionaux d'art contemporain ( FRAC ) , funds to enable the regions to acquire contemporary works of art , represent more intervention of the centre by encouraging the funds ' association with local structures . |
| 26 | He is also leaving the army next month and will settle in the Stirling area . |
| 27 | His seat is secure but he is also seeing the man who defeated him for the party leadership on the way to another victory for the Tories . |
| 28 | He is also winning the televison propaganda war , cleverly mixing attacks on his adversary with humour and straightforward appeals to help change Brazil . |
| 29 | But he is also posing the problem of how subscribers to that view accommodate examples where ‘ oral ’ thinking is found in literate societies . |
| 30 | If a horse shies , he is fundamentally ignoring the rider 's inside leg , so rather than worrying about the horse shying , it is more important to concentrate on exercises which make the horse move away from the leg such as leg-yield , shoulder-in , enlarging and decreasing the circle . |