Example sentences of "[be] [verb] he [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have n't been seeing him regular ? ’ |
| 2 | STEVE BACKLEY yesterday wrote off his chances of being fit to compete in this month 's European Cup and admitted that his continuing injury woes are causing him major concern . |
| 3 | A tradition says that the Emperor 's wife was ill with a disease that baffled the native doctors but the letter which was carried by the Ambassador suggests the true reason ; the Emperor 's sexual ability seems to have been causing him more concern than either his own or his wife 's health as he asked that the physician should bring ‘ some medicines that would provoke the venery ( encourage sexual indulgence ) ’ , in other words , he wanted an aphrodisiac . |
| 4 | The kind of betrayal she 'd been believing him guilty of was mean , petty-minded , and he was none of those things . |
| 5 | Kegan says they 're driving him mad already and he wants me there right away to talk to some bloody newspaper people . |
| 6 | So we 've taken him home and we 're giving him regular feeds . |
| 7 | I think that 's been worrying him more than anything else you know |
| 8 | That had been choking him this long time gone . |
| 9 | Meola accused Arsenal striker Ian Wright of ‘ talking trash ’ and claimed England players had been calling him fat in exchanges as bitter as the Boston Tea Party . |
| 10 | ‘ Woolacombe has been expecting him this age , and not a word from the man to anyone ! ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Robson has a clot on the calf muscle and we are giving him some fitness routines in the gymnasium in the hope of clearing it , ’ said Mr Ferguson yesterday . |
| 12 | ‘ We are giving him another chance , but the pressure is now on him to show us what he is capable of , ’ said Laporte . |
| 13 | I 've been giving him half of it . |
| 14 | I 've been giving him artificial respiration , and I think he 's going to be all right , but we ought to get him into shelter as quickly as we can . |
| 15 | The greatest present we could wish for would be to see him safe and sound . |
| 16 | And his wife Maureen will be cheering him all the way . |
| 17 | Although at one point Lear is willing to return to Goneril , since she seems to be allowing him fifty knights , Regan only twenty-five , so that ‘ Thy fifty yet doth double five-and-twenty , /And thou art twice her love ’ ( II.iv.260ff. ) — a quantification of love that would be comic were its effects not so awful — Lear becomes enraged by the two of them , and prefers ‘ To wage against the enmity o ’ th' air' than live with them . |
| 18 | Sue , no doubt , will soon be proving him wrong . |
| 19 | I thought she was going to be meeting him next weekend then ? |
| 20 | I 'm meeting him nine o'clock Tuesday morning at the hall |
| 21 | I 'm meeting him later at the disco after his work . ’ |
| 22 | She saw him look down at her and saw that his skin was raw and flayed in places ; the arm of flesh and blood was scraped and scorched and the silver arm on the other side was reflecting the tremendous heat , so that it was copper coloured and glinting and must be causing him immense pain . |
| 23 | And er and she said he enjoys it and he goes to playgroup I think he must go to Dennington playgroup cos he 's going to Dennington school , and he enjoys sitting down and being , likes looking at books and he 's started writing and she said actually she said I 'm really panicking because I 'm frightened that I might be teaching him wrong and that I 'm I said well why do n't you pop in and have a word at the school ? |
| 24 | Erm , well it 's just a seminar about planning at the moment , I shall get further information about it on nearer the time , erm , a change in who would pay our , or get our VAT repayment claim from , does n't change an address basically , and er a request from Sam Stewart , whose erm a Counc , er a County Councillor , er something which I really ca n't actually erm help him with , he wants to know the whole of our Parish Council meetings date for nineteen ninety four , but I mean this is something we fix as we go along , so I really do n't think that I can help him by that , and I 'm sending him that , erm |
| 25 | And she said well , I 'm see that I 've twenty second er I 'm sending him that , mum , to do my reference cos they 've got ta they 've got ta have that . |
| 26 | He went back to the cage and concentrated on Bobo , because she seemed to be giving him more attention and was sitting close up to the bars . |
| 27 | He believed it must be doing him good , and he could certainly feel the burn afterwards . |
| 28 | Well that 's silly comment ca n't be doing him any good ! |
| 29 | Nicole looked quite thrilled to have been asked the question , and she haltingly explained that her son was at a party and that they would be collecting him later that morning . |
| 30 | She has stopped Keith from having cold drinking chocolate which he adores because a neighbour said the additives might be making him hyperactive . |