Example sentences of "he [is] [verb] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is to sell up after his extravagant act failed to persuade her . |
| 2 | He is listed there as Jan Eeuworts and his name appears variously , including Ewottes , Eywooddes , and even possibly Suete . |
| 3 | ‘ What the counsellor does is to concentrate on how the client feels about the incidents or facts he is reporting rather than on the facts themselves , and then to respond to what appears to be the most significant part of each complex sequence … |
| 4 | He is coughing up because the Om budsman has found five separate cases of maladministration which , the minister admits , amount to a moral if not a legal responsibility . |
| 5 | When you push the chair down kerbs or ramps it is safest to go down backwards , as the patient might fall out of the chair if he is facing forwards as the chair tilts downwards . |
| 6 | The ideal thing to do in such a situation is to praise the dog lavishly when he is caught even though deep in your heart you would like to strangle him ! |
| 7 | Until the mid-730s he is described only as king of the Mercians but in an important charter of 736 concerning the granting of land in the territory of the Hwicce , the oldest Mercian original text to survive , Aethelbald is variously ‘ king not only of the Mercians but also of all the provinces which are known by the general name South Angles ’ , ‘ king of the South Angles ’ and ‘ king of Britain' ( CS 154 : S 89 ) . |
| 8 | It is not destined that Eleanor shall marry Bertie Stanhope ’ , he is teasing rather than indulging his audience . |
| 9 | So he is doing well if he genuinely feels no lusting after earthly things but such a burning love of God that it is the only thing he wants to talk about , the only activity he wishes to pursue ; and if anything which furthers it , however apparently difficult , is easily done , and any hardship suffered gladly with genuinely indestructible inner joy . |
| 10 | I suspect that he is doing so because he believed what the Home Secretary said when he intervened . |
| 11 | How does a man even try to explain that he is falling apart because he does n't kill people any more ? |
| 12 | ‘ This , ’ complained Wedderburn , ‘ gives him vast uneasiness , for if he is ordered abroad before he gets his Post he dispairs of it for some time . ’ |
| 13 | Ted laughs at her , putting on her warpaint he calls it , but he 's pleased enough when all his mates ogle her down the pub . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's a tragedy that it looks as if he 's quitting just when he 's developed from being a superstar into an awesome megastar . |
| 15 | Right , he 's getting more than sixty , sixty five quid a week . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's fed up 'cos he 's left his smokes behind . ’ |
| 17 | He 's done more than most in the Greater Ranges in the last ten years and still has the prospect of many more years to come . |
| 18 | He 's done more than just survive in the 31 years since he lost his legs . |
| 19 | The bank automatically thinks he 's doing badly because they do n't hear anything from him . |
| 20 | He 's doing more than 100 mph . |
| 21 | Super-shy George Michael bought his Californian dream home for £3 million two years ago , but he 's spent less than a fortnight in the futuristic house . |
| 22 | Already he 's spent more than £100 on chicken wire and spent hours collecting up the various fillings . |
| 23 | ‘ And when the race is over , I 'm do n't mind where he 's finished just as long as he 's not been hurt . |
| 24 | " There 's the stuff he 's used to line his chambers with — or rather the stuff he 's thrown out when he 's put fresh bedding in — very clean creatures , badgers , and a very nice resident for your woods . |
| 25 | He 's paid more than the bosses who run his cash-strapped city . |
| 26 | He 's to come up after we goes down — so 's there 'll be no bumping into each other on them there stairs . |
| 27 | on nine , facing Tufnell , digs out a full-length ball and guides it down on the off side , poor old David Lawrence has to give another painful chase their from backward point , but er , he lumbers after it and sends it an energetic return on the er , he 's swivelling round as he threw it . |
| 28 | David Murray became chairman at Ibrox in 1988 and , asked about the Liverpool manager 's record in the transfer market , said : ‘ Sure Graeme has spent a lot of cash but he 's sold well as well . |
| 29 | sor he said I 'm sorry he 's going just when I 've just broke him in . |
| 30 | Yes , it 's not like he 's going , he 's , he 's going faster than this geezer , he 's not , he 's getting a drag from him , then all of a sudden he comes out and he goes faster you think , explain a little bit more on the old . |