Example sentences of "he is [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is referring here to the way in which written language may make the difference between structures clear , rather than to ‘ ambiguity ’ in the sense that a word may be taken as having two or more meanings . |
| 2 | As a first approximation , we may note that ( 81 ) He 's coming seems to gloss as " he is moving towards the speaker 's location at CT " , while ( 82 ) He 's going glosses as " he is moving away from the speaker 's location at CT " . |
| 3 | He is looking forward to the new challenge of visiting arthritis sufferers in their own homes . |
| 4 | Along with the rest of the team he is looking forward to the challenge . |
| 5 | BNFL 's new Director of employee Relations , Brian Kerr , says he is looking forward to the challenge of his new job , an extension of the role he has exercised within the company since the 1960s . |
| 6 | In His account of what happened to the rich man and Lazarus after they died ( Luke 16 verses 19/31 ) Jesus quoted the words spoken to the rich man in hell , by Abraham and in verses 29 and 31 we see Abraham referring to Moses and The Prophets and clearly he is speaking specifically of the scriptures attributed to them . |
| 7 | Chairman David Deas F thanked the Practice Committees for their hard work in contributing comments , which he is taking forward to the Institute 's Policy and Finance Committee . |
| 8 | He is appointed personally by the French king . |
| 9 | As you can see from the figure on the page opposite the man thinks that he is standing up straight when anyone can see , at a glance , that he is leaning backwards from the waist . |
| 10 | He can raise the issue by voicing his own increasing doubts about the achievability of the goal and can check very quickly whether he is trampled underfoot in the rush to agree , or scoffed at for his lack of understanding . |
| 11 | In the ideal situation he is hidden completely from the observed , who are not aware of the researcher 's presence at all . |
| 12 | He is grinning straight at the camera . |
| 13 | Gradually you make your standards ( criteria ) of your child 's approximations to the correct response more and more stringent until , in the end , he is rewarded only for the precise behaviour that is required . |
| 14 | He is illuminating both on the causes of the Arab-Israeli divide and on the competition within the Islamic world between two poles of development : the secular democracy adopted by Turkey under Ataturk and the Islamic state introduced by Khomeini in Iran . |
| 15 | So why is this international superstar of the scrummage , who I agree is a household name and all that ( although he is known even in the next village as either Whatsit ? or Thingymabob ) , suddenly being advised he has the ( to coin a phrase ) clout and muscle to alter the long-established formulas and ethics of sports journalism ? |
| 16 | So why is this internationalsuperstar of the scrummage , who I agree is a household name and all that ( although he is known even in the next village as either Whatsit ? or Thingymabob ) , suddenly being advised he has the ( to coin a phrase ) clout and muscle to alter the long-established formulas and ethics of sports journalism ? |
| 17 | He must , if he is going away for the winter , turn off the water and empty the boiler . |
| 18 | The word here — many talk but few are willing to be quoted — is that Nelson Mandela will be the last to go , and that he is working closely with the government in arranging a timetable for the releases . |
| 19 | Of the 50 men questioned 27 knew that Michael Fallon is the Conservative MP and that he is standing again at the election . |
| 20 | He is shown above with the company 's Managing Director Peter Bowles M [ left ] and Tony Booth , Director |
| 21 | In Scottish legal history he is remembered also as the Judge who presided at the trial of Burke and Hare , the Edinburgh body-snatchers who turned to murder . |
| 22 | But in Iran he is remembered more for the fact that he destroyed Persepolis by fire . |