Example sentences of "[vb -s] [subord] he [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legs up on the side , Doug looks like he is in childbirth . |
| 2 | ‘ Looks like he 's on Valium ’ , cracked one photographer . |
| 3 | Its inventor looks like he 's on a flying visit to the twentieth century . |
| 4 | ‘ Hullo , angel child ! ’ says a buxom blonde to a thin youth who looks like he 's in training to become a sales manager . |
| 5 | They held me at my house , but this is where Schmidt lives when he 's in London . |
| 6 | ‘ If that happens while he is in our custody , ’ continued Miles , ‘ you can give up any hope of getting your brother back ; and we need him . ’ |
| 7 | Well as he says when he 's at home he likes to get down the pub with the boys for a pint because of course it is dry Up There . |
| 8 | I know Feargal lammed into you , ’ she added wryly , ‘ but he does n't mean the half of what he says when he 's in a temper . |
| 9 | But do you know what happens when he 's in England ? |
| 10 | Along the way Brian talked to us the whole time , not in a loud voice or a whisper , but in a low confident tone , the kind every good falconer adopts when he 's in the presence of birds of prey . |
| 11 | I suppose it can be the same I think it 's just a bit more extreme like the characteristic he shows when he 's in female company like erm just like going over the top the way he acts |
| 12 | It 's there all of the time , but it comes out the clearest when all the ‘ dramatic inflections , subtle stresses and sympathetic accents ’ ( Barthes ) , all the art of the singer , are abandoned , fall away , when Prince swoons , sounds like he 's on the brink of insensibility . |
| 13 | No , sounds like he 's at home |
| 14 | where 'd you want this , the post ? , that the , before they stab each other with it oh that sounds like he 's in the cooker is he |
| 15 | In the novel itself , where we might expect Marmeladov to speak of solace , respite , forgetting , companionship , he grasps the paradox that he drinks because he is in search of suffering , of ‘ tears and tribulation ’ . |
| 16 | As he put it , ‘ He reverts when he is with naughty children . ’ |
| 17 | Issues are rarely debated , other than superficially during campaigns , and what the President proposes once he is in office bears no necessary relation to the platform on which he and his party ostensibly fought the campaign . |
| 18 | The rule also affected Henry Cotton , who took up the post at Royal Waterloo , Belgium , in 1933 and thus missed two Ryder Cup matches when he was at the peak of his powers . |
| 19 | Neither horse will have the benefit of their usual riding partners as Cumani 's stable-jockey , Ray Cochrane , last night gave up his weekend rides as he was in pain from the shoulder injury sustained in the Doncaster pile-up three weeks ago . |