Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [is] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Every club years ago had a tough-tackling defender in their side but they did n't resort to the tactics he is talking about . |
| 2 | We must distinguish the belief that a speaker has about the words he is using from the belief that he is using those words to express . |
| 3 | In fact no one knows where it is registered — except of course Noel Smyth and whatever parties he is fronting for . |
| 4 | Working from these , and with microorganisms he is culturing in his laboratory to metabolise related compounds from the chlorodioxin group , Chakrabarty is seeking a single culture that can degrade 2,4,5-T to the point where heavily contaminated soil can be returned in a matter of days to healthy soil that can support plant life . |
| 5 | Sect leader David Koresh , who claims he is Jesus Christ , has told negotiators he is waiting for a ‘ message from God ’ before deciding what to do next . |
| 6 | First , there is his attitude towards the texts he is writing about : because writing can never be governed by the intention and avowed aims of its authors , Derrida finds himself saying of Rousseau , for example , that what he actually writes is quite different from what he means to say : that he is bound , as we all are , to say ‘ more , less or something quite other than what he would mean/would like to say [ voudrait dire ] ’ ( 1976 : 158 ] . |
| 7 | Keener feels that his lack of technical background is a distinct advantage ; it also means that he sets a large amount of trust in the engineers he is working with . |
| 8 | Auntie May , though , said there 's only a quartet , and after he 's done some solo pieces he 's playing with them . |
| 9 | ‘ For the next few days he is going to be a bit sore . |
| 10 | That 's six million pounds he 's getting for a year ! ’ |
| 11 | So we know , we should and remember of course that in the book Freud chooses two examples as Joy told me the church and the army and these are just examples and of course Freud chooses them partly because they 're very big groups so they in some ways they er exemplify the principles he 's talking about because clearly in a small group like this you could say well look , what is going on is really I mean we all have , we all know each other and it 's a face-to-face group and really what happens here is an of the dynamics group and I think it is actually . |
| 12 | Shannon , constantly mopping her feverish forehead , is , like the giant lizard tied up and thrashing under the floorboards , at the end of his rope , and the party of Texan school teachers he is leading on a ‘ tour of God 's world ’ are incensed about his having put them up in flea-bag hotels and fallen into bed with the teenage student they have brought along . |
| 13 | ‘ Hillary has the analytic ability to make certain that the decisions he is leaning toward are iron-clad . ’ |
| 14 | I mean I , I du n no I think in in this point four he 's ta he 's not talking about landlords he 's talking about the tyrants and gentry |
| 15 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what alterations he is considering to the disability working allowance scheme before it is introduced ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 16 | By analysing the products he is selling in this way , a salesman will communicate in terms which are meaningful to buyers and therefore be more convincing . |
| 17 | Will he tell the House what he is doing about that and what discussions he is having with the Treasury ? |
| 18 | I have this theory that at such times he 's communing with the mother ship which gave him his mission on this planet , but then I could be wrong . |
| 19 | Flight lieutenant Fraser Boyd does n't like heights ; With that in mind he hopes the final adjustments he 's making in dock in Plymouth will render a return visits unnecessary while half way across the Atlantic . |
| 20 | My sisters belong here , he told himself fiercely , like almonds , like cherries , like the percoco , which blends the sweetness of the almond and the apricot together , much better than those whores he 's talking about . |
| 21 | Both Arsenal and Forest would struggle to match even half the wages he is earning in Italy and would be reluctant to smash their rigid pay structures . |
| 22 | try as one might , one ca n't change the group , but , but clearly these are not th the examples that Freud chooses are really big groups where the kind of factors he 's talking about comes through very clearly because y y you can not explain what happens in the Catholic Church or an army . |
| 23 | Deuce , a pimp , has added him to a clutch of boys he is taking to a hotel . |
| 24 | Some mornings he 's suffering from what quite obviously is a hangover and at other times he appears to have a stomach upset . |
| 25 | No matter how cleverly the flyweight boxes he is going to be stuffed . |
| 26 | ‘ But it 's only winos he 's dealing with , ’ Rab said . |
| 27 | inserting common paragraphs , for example if half the students make the same mistake , it is useful for the marker to prepare a paragraph explaining the error , and to paste this into each of the documents he is returning to the errant students . |
| 28 | This happens on eight occasions in all ; on three occasions he is thinking about his father and on five occasions he is thinking about his mother . |
| 29 | This happens on eight occasions in all ; on three occasions he is thinking about his father and on five occasions he is thinking about his mother . |