Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was as if he were shitting out of every pore . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He took a briefcase with him , as if he were going back to the Works . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He is moving back towards the bad practice of selective tax shelters , which Mr Lawson had undermined in his five years as chancellor . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | The likeable Welshman , who came via the coaching route from Western Province , says he is fed up with the intrigue and politics of rugby . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He 's a floating penguin that literally toots with joy when he is pushed down under the water . |
| 13 | However , he can not be doing his job properly in his supervisory and regulatory role if , at the same time , he is bogged down in a morass of consumer complaints . |
| 14 | And if in carrying he is delayed out for the night it will count two works . |
| 15 | There are computer games on the market in which the player has the illusion that he is wandering about in an underground labyrinth , which has a definite if complex geography and in which he encounters dragons , minotaurs or other mythic adversaries . |
| 16 | Though he still likes the animal and slapstick comics , he is branching out into the blood-and-thunder type . |
| 17 | Shortly after he is flown back to the mainland , to the most south naval base of Rio Grande in Tierra del Fuego . |
| 18 | When Milton is resting he is turned out during the day , but he has to be put in a field without much grass because he is incurably greedy and , given the opportunity , gets very fat in no time at all . |
| 19 | After he 's been ridden , he is turned out in the field , because he wo n't eat unless he 's turned out and I do try desperately hard to get four feeds a day into him . |
| 20 | 685 , 694 : ‘ I take it that ’ the tenant ‘ has a right as against all the world to remain in possession until he is turned out by an order of the court . ’ |
| 21 | He is caught up in the communal excitement , without the prospect of release that performance gives . |
| 22 | Here he is sitting up in the marital bed , his jaw ruggedly clenched on his unlit pipe . |
| 23 | The priest , understandably , flees ; the wife tells her husband that he is running off with the partridges , with the result that the husband pursues the priest brandishing his knife , apparently confirming what the wife told the priest . |
| 24 | Yet he is held up as an object of ridicule and loathing throughout the land . |
| 25 | There are four possibilities which need to be covered : ( 1 ) that he is held out as a partner and is liable as such ; ( 2 ) that he is held out as a partner but is indemnified against liability as such ; ( 3 ) that steps are taken to ensure that he is not held out as a partner ; and ( 4 ) that , even though the original intention may have been as at ( 3 ) , he is in fact held out as a partner , either by the firm or by himself acting in the course of his work for the firm , in circumstances not initially contemplated by anyone . |
| 26 | There are four possibilities which need to be covered : ( 1 ) that he is held out as a partner and is liable as such ; ( 2 ) that he is held out as a partner but is indemnified against liability as such ; ( 3 ) that steps are taken to ensure that he is not held out as a partner ; and ( 4 ) that , even though the original intention may have been as at ( 3 ) , he is in fact held out as a partner , either by the firm or by himself acting in the course of his work for the firm , in circumstances not initially contemplated by anyone . |
| 27 | To that extent , he is going along with the orthodoxy , and not disturbing the papal infallibility of his predecessors and the process they have established . |
| 28 | increase in value added tax — but he is standing down at the general election . |
| 29 | ERIK Thorstvedt will seek crisis talks with Spurs if he is left out of the side at Coventry on Monday . |
| 30 | In part he is swayed by fear of his fate at the hands of the enraged seamen : in part he is driven by an awakening of conscience as painful as the circulation returning to the frozen body of Thomas Fox when he is brought down from the masthead . |