Example sentences of "he [be] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are addressing your senior manager will he be constantly interrupted by phone calls ? |
| 2 | NICHOLAS KEPT TELLING himself that he had never before done this — as if he were somehow engaged in research and thereby exonerated . |
| 3 | There was a long silence , as if he were so fixed in despair he could n't speak . |
| 4 | The quoted comments of the NCO are too short to indicate whether he might in fact justify his comments in this way , if he were personally accused of prejudice . |
| 5 | He got the sack , cos he got up and left his job overslept and annoyed erm Rachael because she woke him up twice and said come on you 've got to go to work , he said alright then , she , she went back to bed thinking he 'd get up and of course he were still laying in bed , I woke him up at five to eleven , said come on you 're an hour late , but when he got down there they said no it 's no good you 've got the sack , and he said well it 's your own fault then cos you were woke up twice by Rachael at nine o'clock , he had n't , he could have got up and gone to work , just idle we met him twice , it really upset him |
| 6 | An RUC officer said : ‘ He is regularly stopped at road checks by our patrols . |
| 7 | But the co-ordinator of the elderly peoples ' service development programme Paul Cousins says he is not looking for uniformity . |
| 8 | His simple , understandable but rich symbolism and clever technique show someone who has put his whole heart into the character of his poem , if indeed he is not writing from experience . |
| 9 | It aims to secure both that the consumer is not misled and also that he is not left in ignorance of matters of which he should lie informed . |
| 10 | Unlike his mother and father , who rarely make their presence felt on anything , he is not constrained by protocol . |
| 11 | Some fences can be deceiving from a distance , so the horse must be given clear aids as to what to expect so he is not taken by surprise . |
| 12 | confessed to having initially found ‘ prima facie perverse and incomprehensible ’ — was that a police officer is not acting in the execution of his duty if he is doing something that he is not compelled by law to do . |
| 13 | But , against that , the presence of Neil Edwards and Troy Coker ( if he is not suffering from jet lag ) in the line-outs should work in Quins ' favour . |
| 14 | Because he is not going for discovery or new connection or progression , but only to repeat upon himself a known reaction . |
| 15 | Playing for your province does n't count , but it has been practice that if a player is banned at club level , he is n't considered for selection at that time . |
| 16 | But he is n't responding to treatment . ’ |
| 17 | Khotan is drunk , when he is n't doped with hashish and , now that Nogai and his brothers are forbidden the Golden Pavilion , your father-in-law is courting everyone . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You can see , Miss Cathy , that he is n't dying of love for you ! |
| 19 | He is probably known as Champagne Tom in the office , always breaking open a bottle of bubbly to celebrate handing over a fortune to another punter . |
| 20 | Three months after becoming prime minister , he is already putting in place a vast programme to privatise the state-owned businesses that have been a drag on the country since they were nationalised by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in the early 1970s . |
| 21 | the latest news on Ronny Johnsen is that he is also wanted at tottenham . |
| 22 | He is also charged with assault causing actual bodily harm to Alan Wilson and Gary Johnson on Sunday May 9 , after which Mr Whelan was taken to Walton Hospital , where he died six days later . |
| 23 | He is also charged with theft . |
| 24 | He is also accused of making of threats to kill on three occasions dating from 1990 . |
| 25 | The hero of Simon Gray 's comedy Otherwise Engaged ( 1975 ) , in similar fashion , only wants to be left alone to play his new recording of Wagner 's Parsifal , but he is successively interrupted by neighbour , brother and wife , who succeed in disturbing him and fail only to interest him . |
| 26 | ‘ He is completely lacking in sex appeal , ’ said Maya , of South West London . |
| 27 | He says he is now living in fear , having been told that an £80,000 contract has been taken out on his life . |
| 28 | He is now recovering at home in Barnard Castle after three operations and celebrated his 50th birthday on Monday . |
| 29 | He is now held in hospital in Safi . |
| 30 | He knows that he is only looking at ink on paper , yet his nervous system responds to it in the same kind of way as it might respond to a real woman . |