Example sentences of "and he [is] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Sometimes problems arise from the fact that his relationship with his own mother has been unsatisfactory , and he is faced with the hard task of learning from scratch how to relate successfully to a woman of the older generation who has joined his household .
2 Daniel Höchstetter , like his father Joachim , was a master miner and he is credited with the invention of a mine pumping engine .
3 And he is involved through the ENYBPG in the current battle to beat the baiters with £1,000 in rewards offered by groups incensed at the cruelty .
4 The penny suddenly drops , and he is revealed as the one who makes sense of life .
5 With his loyal advisers Francis Cripps and Frances Morrell by his side , he beavers away with unremitting zeal even when his beloved industrial policy is snatched away and he is banished to the Department of Energy .
6 His tall figure , spear held on his shoulder , strides back across the savannah until the moonlight gives out and he is consumed by the landscape .
7 During autumn he puts out his invisible lines that can only be seen under the microscope of the sun beams , and he is carried into the deep ocean , a balloonist travelling to an unknown destination .
8 Eck was Luther 's most unrelenting opponent and he is buried in the Minster .
9 This is a test case for him and he 's fallen at the first hurdle .
10 He 's never given enough clean clothes and he 's chastised for the slightest thing .
11 Princess Margaret Hospital is part of his beat and he 's taken to the task quite literally .
12 He gave Doddie Weir a whack and he 's vilified by the press for three weeks afterwards , some of them suggesting that he was not fit to be a policemen .
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