Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [verb] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wrote in an essay published in 1937 that an artist must lead a " commonplace life " if he is properly to do his work . |
| 2 | The fact that he 's only risking his career — and mine , and the government 's — does n't really make any difference . |
| 3 | but that 's only putting his hand out without being brutal about it , that 's not as dangerous as being coming out entirely from behind the shield . |
| 4 | He 's only showing his ignorance . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He 's only doing his job and pretty soon he 'll give up and go away . |
| 6 | PC Packer says he 's only doing his job . |
| 7 | If a male , for example , is constantly harassing his mate , keeping her in her cave or in a corner of the tank , often with serious damage being inflicted , this shows that he is ready to breed but she is not . |
| 8 | He 's obviously neglected his job and let the club go to pot and is generally a frightful old bugger and an excrescence . |
| 9 | It 's like erm that leisure , I mean he 's obviously learned his lesson when he did that competition that time did n't he and he , he went in and he passed did n't he ? |
| 10 | Rickman , the thinking woman 's Anthony Andrews , is only doing his duty : he and Miss Horton ( above right ) step out together . |
| 11 | ‘ Mr. Bishop is mistaken in thinking we are litterbugs , but he is only doing his duty in taking steps to protect Ferngrove Park . |
| 12 | Mr Wilson is apparently taking his case to the Court of Appeal . |
| 13 | He 's already made his mind up . |
| 14 | You see , Neil 's already put his side about , we worked er how can you hold us responsible for them being late in when |
| 15 | They 're relieved that French is finally facing his punishment . |
| 16 | By this time Nicklaus had been round the loop , the easiest part of the course , and he 's somehow clawed his way back into contention . |
| 17 | THE HIGH It never was a good year for the ‘ Roses , maintains Andy Couzens , a guitarist who 's finally found his niche … |
| 18 | Thus a chef is not a good chef and a production manager is not fulfilling his role if he neglects this vital aspect . |
| 19 | But this is not to dismiss his vision as an irrelevance in the forging of a nascent science . |
| 20 | They are conceding almost twice as many points per game as they did in 1991 and quarterback Stan Gelbaugh is not moving his offense as efficiently as last year . |
| 21 | Despite storming figures that saw the company report its first $5,000m quarter , and just miss its first $10,000m half , putting it on track for close to $20,000m this year ( see Company Results ) , chief executive Lewis Platt is not cheering his head off . |
| 22 | Despite storming figures that saw the company report its first $5,000m quarter , and just miss its first $10,000m half , putting it on track for close to $20,000m this year , chief executive Lewis Platt is not cheering his head off . |
| 23 | The Conservative party is lucky that he is not displaying his intellect on Labour 's Front Bench . |
| 24 | But this is not to deny his achievement , which was fairly clearly founded on political , military , administrative and diplomatic skills of a high order , and his own sense of it is indicated by his adoption around this time of a crown modelled on that worn by the German emperors . |
| 25 | Nor , said Thomas Gisborne in 1795 , must he himself disdain to borrow money at the appropriate moment if he is not to put his credit to real and serious hazard . |
| 26 | This is not the place for a proper discussion of Empson 's views , which like a great deal of British work are more concerned with critical method than with theory ( he wrote ( 1950 : 594 ) that ‘ a critic ought to trust his own nose , like the hunting dog , and if he lets any kind of theory or principle distract him from that , he is not doing his work ’ ) . |
| 27 | Logically , therefore , we must conclude that since accidents do happen then either the system is faulty or someone along the line is not doing his job properly . |
| 28 | The latter may , for instance , feel that if he is regarded as competent to take on the task by himself he ought to be in charge of his own department and that the manager is intentionally blocking his promotion . |
| 29 | They wo n't be needed today , as the Inspecting Officer is just finishing his inspection of the band , and the parade will shortly be on the move . |
| 30 | To a degree Eliot is just reassuring his correspondent that he has not changed absolutely . |