Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in that case why had he been invited here in the first place ? |
| 2 | He was lying with his head in the hollow of my neck and shoulder , breathing quietly ; his voice had a languorous , far-away sound , as if he were rocking slowly in a hammock on a hot summer day . |
| 3 | Now I have nothing against Terry as a person , although I do not think I would cross the road to help him if he were run over by a lorry , but that is neither here nor there . |
| 4 | His head had an odd tilt or cock to it , set on the shoulders as if he were looking up from the bars of a drop-handled bike . |
| 5 | If he were aimed specifically at the race another time he would probably go very close . |
| 6 | It was as if he were shitting out of every pore . ’ |
| 7 | No hearts were going to be broken , he told her with the frankest face , if he were to run off with a Protestant and have a dozen kids . |
| 8 | He took a briefcase with him , as if he were going back to the Works . |
| 9 | So I used to go with him , and incidently he was a , he was very good on classical music , although we never went into this although I 'd got very close to him but I 'm sure he were brought up in an orphanage you know , and never talked about this but I 'm sure he was . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's a human tragedy , ’ says a full-time union official , Gordon Samson , a Timex sit-in veteran and another of the officials scheduled for a court appearance , but he is referring not to the sacked workers but to the recruits . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He is carved here with an apple and a boar , for Finn was the Boar of High Summer and his enemy Diarmaid a Wolf . |
| 13 | This weekend , buoyed by the growing Liberal Democrat support and the trend to a hung Parliament in the most recent opinion polls , he is moving on to the next stage : cranking up the case for a coalition . |
| 14 | 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 " . |
| 15 | He is moving back towards the bad practice of selective tax shelters , which Mr Lawson had undermined in his five years as chancellor . |
| 16 | At one of Hollywood 's more fashionable restaurants he is dining quietly with a friend . |
| 17 | His apparent personality as an ungeneralized individual is a literary illusion ; he is regarded instead as an object of a form of general moral evaluation and judgement that probes the mores of medieval commercial and commercialized life from a conventional standpoint that is , paradoxically , radical and fundamentalist . |
| 18 | But he demonstrated yesterday that he is now back on song and he is looking forward to a good run in the National Championships at Newark at the end of the month . |
| 19 | He is looking forward to an active retirement thanks to his association with the boy scout movement . |
| 20 | He is looking forward to the new challenge of visiting arthritis sufferers in their own homes . |
| 21 | Along with the rest of the team he is looking forward to the challenge . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Mark 's promise that the Holy Spirit will look after their words when arraigned before councils for the sake of the gospel is brought into the Mission Charge by Matthew : it seems clear that he is looking forward from an isolated incident in the ministry of Jesus to the continuing mission of the post-resurrection church of which he was a member . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Will my right hon. Friend tell me how best to reply to a constituent of mine who has recently completed a course of treatment at Broomfield hospital in Chelmsford and who tells me that the nurses and doctors were fantastic , that the treatment was magnificent and that he is fed up to the back teeth with the constant efforts of the Labour party to undermine and talk down the achievements of the health service ? |
| 26 | The likeable Welshman , who came via the coaching route from Western Province , says he is fed up with the intrigue and politics of rugby . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | She pulls off her t-shirt , she is safe while he is swimming out to the centre , she slips out of the rest of her clothes , kicks off the espadrilles , and running along the boards dives in . |
| 29 | He 's a floating penguin that literally toots with joy when he is pushed down under the water . |
| 30 | He is appointed personally by the French king . |