Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dad started off in statesman-like fashion , as if he were addressing the United Nations , earnestly saying he 'd come to love Eva over the time he 'd known her and so on . |
| 2 | While the view which I earlier called crude materialism is not compatible with Althusser 's general position , it would be remarkable if he were to relegate the economic aspects of society to exactly the same status as everything else . |
| 3 | In any event the purchaser will want to know that he is buying the right assets from the right companies . |
| 4 | Keepers say he is making the right moves with five females at Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park near Chard , Somerset . |
| 5 | If the War Altar is destroyed of if the Theogonist leaves it he is dealt no magic cards , and will not be able to cast spells . |
| 6 | In short , one way of understanding Burgess is that he is describing the moral careers of immigrants ; some successfully adapting and eventually living in what they and respectable Chicago society saw as the ‘ front regions ’ of the desirable suburbs . |
| 7 | Therefore , he is treating the semi-final trials more as a tune-up . |
| 8 | August 1992 sees Tim setting off on a journey much nearer home and this time he 's inviting the wine-loving gourmets of Britain to join him . |
| 9 | No , but he 's criticizing the Conservative policies and all that , and what we will do is this . |
| 10 | The books is more than merely route descriptions though , as Harding recounts the times over the years he 's walked the various paths , adding anecdotes , descriptions of the people and insights into the history of the area . |
| 11 | He 's dropped the long-redundant Associates moniker and is standing alone , on his own merits . |
| 12 | He was experiencing the limited pleasures and drawbacks of early manhood . |
| 13 | Lloyd George might think that in beating Wilson over the space requirements of Asiatics in the debate over the Merchant Shipping Act in 1906 he was delivering the working classes from their unworthy prejudices against foreign seamen , but the seamen thought that they knew better . |
| 14 | Until he was contacted the arriving forces had no idea of what to expect . |
| 15 | He was watching the circling helicopters . |
| 16 | And the greater the gap between his colossal global success and the terraced cottages of South Wales , the more determined he was to employ the grappling irons of loyalty and haul his past alongside . |
| 17 | He was given an immediate Critics ' Award and a seat at the back . |
| 18 | He was using the middle classes as a reference group ; aspiring to what he believed to be their values of ‘ honour ’ and ‘ duty ’ . |
| 19 | For the moment , anyway , he was using the old methods on the 7 December dummy . |
| 20 | He was wearing a ginger sports jacket , and he thrust a couple of ballpoints into the breast pocket . |
| 21 | He was wearing an Ultimate Climbers ' Helmet and you will be glad to know that although the helmet sustained considerable damage , Stuart had no head injuries . |
| 22 | He was to retain the valuable regions already granted him , and though he would in the future have to share the heartlands with Lothar , still , for a last-born son , he had done rather well . |
| 23 | He walked and walked , in fair and foul weather , pretending that he was training the young hounds to stay at heel ; and did so . |
| 24 | Tammuz managed to catch Roirbak just as he was making the finishing touches to his evening regalia : black , matt silk suit with thread-wide yellow pinstripe , understated gold adornments , I-Ching earrings . |
| 25 | On the way back from York , they finally resolved their marital problems ; he was to make no sexual demands , she was to give up her Friday fasts and pay his debts before starting on her pilgrimage to the Holy Land . |
| 26 | When he got to Stuttgart , he was to make the bare tables and bleak walls of the theatre canteen seem homely . |
| 27 | In 1988 , he was awarded an honorary masters degree at Guangsi Province University and has lectured on European art to post-graduate students there . |
| 28 | He was awarded the honorary degrees of D.Sc . |
| 29 | He was shown the white tigers and was ready to be on his way when he was told the Maharajah wanted to see him . |
| 30 | For Chiang was so concerned to weaken the power of the Chinese Communists , who had established their own government in northern China , as he was to defeat the Japanese invaders ( AA , pp. 55–6 ) . |