Example sentences of "he is [verb] his [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But also , I guess , he is exercising his right as a laibon to prophesy . |
| 2 | If at the moment he speaks he thinks he is meeting his child in a land of real stones and tree-stumps , he is sadly mistaken ; if he realises he is not , then already a touch of grief is creeping back into consolation . |
| 3 | JIM HICKEY has announced that he is to leave his post as director of Filmhouse in Edinburgh to pursue a career in film-making . |
| 4 | He is picking his way through the Moscow Record of 27 November 1869 , and there he reads about a murder which had occurred six days earlier . |
| 5 | Livesey is quite capable of looking after that particular angle , and no doubt he is sharpening his pencil for this purpose already . |
| 6 | He is serving his term in Tver . |
| 7 | Furthermore , not only does Hilton imply that he is implementing his treatment of the subject in Scale 1 at the beginning of Scale 2 , there are also points in Scale 1 where he anticipates a development of his subject beyond that relevant for his immediate recipient . |
| 8 | He is running his hand through his thin grey hair . |
| 9 | He is putting his faith in an appeal to create an endowment fund , and recently he has received a grant from the new libraries programme of the EC , to exchange and coordinate information between the Witt , the Rijksbureau in The Hague , and Trinity College , Dublin . |
| 10 | He is putting his body under unbelievable strain , which is fine when he is 26 . |
| 11 | He speaks in prose , probably because he is basing his argument on reason rather than emotion . |
| 12 | If he means by knowledge an accumulation of inconsequential facts then of course she would agree with him , but one suspects that in his concern for ‘ things of the heart ’ he is turning his back on the curiosity men share to know the world of objects . |
| 13 | At the moment he is working his way through Swing Hammer Swing by Jeff Torrington , a humorous novel about urban deprivation in the Gorbals . |
| 14 | Actually , he is describing his work on Wilton 's terephthalic acid plant . |
| 15 | Whereas hypocrisy in the tragic mode is usually revealed to the audience directly , in advance of the action , here Shakespeare makes Angelo declare himself to a second person , Isabella , confident that — as Falstaff says when he is planning his pretence of having killed Hotspur in battle — ‘ Nothing confutes me but e-yes , and nobody sees me ’ ( 1 Henry IV V.iv.125f ) : And indeed , Angelo 's position is impregnable , unless some force from outside , with superior knowledge , can expose him . |
| 16 | Such a man may be delighted to become a father yet he will not wish to think that he is depriving his partner of her career — even temporarily . |
| 17 | Now at Rank Xerox 's Europarc , in Cambridge , he is continuing his work on sound . |
| 18 | That has whetted Graham 's appetite for more honours — and he accepts he 'll have to keep filling the Highbury trophy room if he is to guarantee his future at the club . |