Example sentences of "he is [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the preface to his Guide he claims that ‘ all ( his drawings ) were entirely finished while the subject was before him , for he conceives that studies are lessened in value by being retouched in the house ’ ; but a Miss Weeton who knew him well , and was godmother to one of his children , says that ‘ he is employed all summer in taking sketches , and all the winter in finishing them . |
| 2 | Ted Hill , the Labour Party agent , has told the Enfield Advertiser that he is taking legal advice about this . |
| 3 | He is taking early retirement in order to concentrate his formidable energies on teaching adults . |
| 4 | In the debate , The Prime Minister said he is taking full responsibility for the actions of the Chancellor . |
| 5 | EVERYONE is entitled to their opinion , and while I agree with Joe Hyam 's concerning service charges ( Caterer , 15–21 August ) , I feel he is taking unfair advantage of his position to have a go at people who do not do things the ‘ Joe Hyam ’ way . |
| 6 | Despite a rising Unix base , he is facing flat membership of 6,500 souls and 69 corporate sponsors and a clear lack of enthusiasm for the old user group even among the diehards . |
| 7 | Now that Ferguson has returned to what he is best at , harassing opposing defences instead of those trying to shape his career , he is getting maximum support from Roxburgh . |
| 8 | When Paris claims he loves Helen above thought , he is providing piercing insight into the twisted motives behind the adultery that has infected Troy . |
| 9 | To make progress each member is allowed to speak only once on any motion that is before the meeting unless he is given special permission by the Chairman . |
| 10 | Robbie Gladwell has opened a new guitar workshop in Sudbury , Suffolk , where he is undertaking all nature of electric and acoustic guitar repairs ; plus setups for that ‘ problem ’ guitar , customising and custom building , etc . |
| 11 | It is simply an appetite , like any other , and Jackie can be at his funniest when he is mocking this propensity in himself : the endless appearances , the systematic use of his celebrity , the unlimited sponsorships , the directorships , the new business ventures , the life that is taken up , 100 per cent , in ‘ making it ’ and , having made it , in making some more . |
| 12 | Based in a showroom on 57th Street , he is inspired this season by that Fashion Hall of Fame dame Babe Paley , by Gloria Vanderbilt and Gloria Guinness . |
| 13 | Some records are worthy of special comment at the beginning of this chapter for they are sources that every family and local historian must learn to use straight away if he is to gain any understanding of the period before the Industrial Revolution . |
| 14 | He is talking this time of the short stories of Guy de Maupassant , only a few of which can perhaps be seized on as crime short stories before their time . |
| 15 | He is pinning some hope on a cabinet reshuffle . |
| 16 | This exists simply because he must necessarily reveal aspects of a closed and somewhat secretive society to the outside if he is to pursue any ethnography at all . |
| 17 | ‘ But he is the defending champion and he proved he can play on grass and he is playing this week on grass in Halle . ’ |
| 18 | He is studying elementary Latin for pleasure with a local friend . |
| 19 | He is putting more structure into his clothes and using rather more natural fibres than man-made miracle fabrics . |
| 20 | Grigorovich ought to forgive him : he is putting fresh life into an exhausted myth . |
| 21 | Jim Clark spends his working day in the store-room of Stoddards Carpets — but in his spare time , he is doing excellent work for Elderslie Boys Club where he has recently arranged a football trip to Holland . |
| 22 | But he is accorded some sort of grudging acceptance by ‘ James , the brother of the Lord ’ , who dispatches him to Tarsus , to preach there . |
| 23 | He is having intensive physiotherapy at Mount Vernon to restore flexibility . |
| 24 | But he is giving fearless leadership in his deeply-troubled area , to both black and white . |