Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She heard him being pushed from his place at the keyhole . |
| 2 | ‘ No , it all points to him being held against his will somewhere . |
| 3 | The sympathy of all who knew him is extended to his wife Jean . |
| 4 | The paramount value which Semai place on avoidance of conflict or confrontation precludes a direct response , so a strategy of passive resistance is adopted : the person who is being importuned begins , without responding directly , to turn slowly , almost imperceptibly , around , until the one who is importuning him is speaking to his back . |
| 5 | Again , sword and phallus substitute for each other , but in a uniquely revealing way : not only is Vitelli 's violence against Clara 's father erotically identified with the sexual act performed ‘ with ’ her , but the disembowelment of him is aligned with her childbirth . |
| 6 | The Poet 's care for him is manifested in his absence , not to his face ; there can be no suspicion of flattery . |
| 7 | Erm we have actually taken the views of one of the developers on that site and you 'll see erm the letter that we received from him is included within our appendix nine . |
| 8 | So much of him was drawn into his eyes that he never heard the drumming of hooves cross the plateau from the ramp , or the rattle of the chains as the drawbridge was lowered in haste . |
| 9 | We 're not sure if this photo of him was taken during his sales training , or because he had won the half year professional sails guild award last year . |
| 10 | ‘ My interest in him was confined to his seamanship . |
| 11 | Anyways , its quite funny — Souness has been after all our midfielders at some stage ( except Strach AFAIK ) , now he s moving onto our reserves . |
| 12 | Well , maybe they were n't his exact words , but I expect he would have come up with something like that had he been asked for his thoughts on Carter 's ‘ Only Living Boy In New Cross ’ . |
| 13 | For much of time he been joined by his wife Joanne , who has worked tirelessly with the country 's zoo to help care for captive chimpanzees and a small collection of other African animals . |
| 14 | Or had he been immersed in his Black Arts , calling up a demon from hell in some lonely wood or deserted copse ? |
| 15 | Could he be thinking about his girlfriend ? |
| 16 | Can he be dismissed from his judicial office , and if so by whom ? |
| 17 | It was as though he were acting as his own warm-up man . |
| 18 | There was authority in his voice and she felt a great surge of relief , as if he were plucking at her pain and releasing it . |
| 19 | The back of Montague 's head had been blown away , but his face still wore an idiot 's grin , as if he were laughing in his sleep , mouth wide open . |
| 20 | Indeed , if he were to accede to our request , we would probably become so alarmed by the manifestations of his power that you would n't see most of us for dust ! |
| 21 | If he were to look at his life rationally — as in his most philosophical moments he liked to think he did — then there was no questioning the profile . |
| 22 | He is referring to his parents , I think . |
| 23 | Whenever I go to see him , he is vivified by his connection with so many passive consumers ; their purse-mouths suck greedily at his psychic account . |
| 24 | He is assisted in his priestly functions by his sons , Hophni and Phinehas . |
| 25 | On January 1st the rebels of the United Somali Congress claimed to have driven President Siad Barre into a bunker in the military airport , where he is defended by his favourite tanks . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It stars Victoria Abril as a sexy young widow who rents a room to Paco ( Jorge Sanz ) and despite the fact he is engaged to his virginal girlfriend , he is more than happy to be seduced by his landlady . |
| 28 | An example is where a director has agreed to try to sell shares on behalf of the shareholders , in which case he is acting as their agent and not as a director of the company . |
| 29 | That is the implied warranty given by any agent ( whether auctioneer or not ) that he is acting within his principal 's ( in this case the seller 's ) authority . |
| 30 | If the arbitrator dies or is unwilling or incapable of acting a new arbitrator may be appointed under the Arbitration Act 1950 , and at least while he is acting within his jurisdiction an arbitrator is immune from liability for negligence ( Sirros v Moore [ 1975 ] QB 118 ) . |