Example sentences of "he [is] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thinking about it he s got some kind of ‘ hot streak ’ when it comes to the FA Cup . |
| 2 | In the preface to his Guide he claims that ‘ all ( his drawings ) were entirely finished while the subject was before him , for he conceives that studies are lessened in value by being retouched in the house ’ ; but a Miss Weeton who knew him well , and was godmother to one of his children , says that ‘ he is employed all summer in taking sketches , and all the winter in finishing them . |
| 3 | He knows he is hearing another complex , incompetent lie now . |
| 4 | But he is leaking another message that he is not confident he has succeeded . |
| 5 | At the start of the move phase the player declares how much steam he is using this turn — in effect how high a pressure he wants to run the boiler at . |
| 6 | He is hoping this month will see his latest venture become a reality when he launches a floating ‘ school ’ to teach handicapped youngsters about the Tees as they cruise along it . |
| 7 | You see there there he is telling this lady do n't listen to her she runs a savings group , the squander bug works for Hitler . |
| 8 | Robbie Gladwell has opened a new guitar workshop in Sudbury , Suffolk , where he is undertaking all nature of electric and acoustic guitar repairs ; plus setups for that ‘ problem ’ guitar , customising and custom building , etc . |
| 9 | 1.15:WONDER MAN is a most exciting chasing prospect and I will be surprised if he is beaten this afternoon . |
| 10 | It is simply an appetite , like any other , and Jackie can be at his funniest when he is mocking this propensity in himself : the endless appearances , the systematic use of his celebrity , the unlimited sponsorships , the directorships , the new business ventures , the life that is taken up , 100 per cent , in ‘ making it ’ and , having made it , in making some more . |
| 11 | He is holding some back . ’ |
| 12 | Based in a showroom on 57th Street , he is inspired this season by that Fashion Hall of Fame dame Babe Paley , by Gloria Vanderbilt and Gloria Guinness . |
| 13 | There is no doubt about it — he knows perfectly well the reason why he is introducing this guillotine motion . |
| 14 | Some records are worthy of special comment at the beginning of this chapter for they are sources that every family and local historian must learn to use straight away if he is to gain any understanding of the period before the Industrial Revolution . |
| 15 | He is talking this time of the short stories of Guy de Maupassant , only a few of which can perhaps be seized on as crime short stories before their time . |
| 16 | He is pinning some hope on a cabinet reshuffle . |
| 17 | This exists simply because he must necessarily reveal aspects of a closed and somewhat secretive society to the outside if he is to pursue any ethnography at all . |
| 18 | Maamur showed , when winning a maiden race at Southwell last month by 10 lengths , that he has the potential to develop into a useful stayer and he is napped this afternoon . |
| 19 | ‘ But he is the defending champion and he proved he can play on grass and he is playing this week on grass in Halle . ’ |
| 20 | To reduce the criticism , he is spending this week touring Middle Eastern capitals on a showy ‘ peace mission ’ . |
| 21 | He is putting more structure into his clothes and using rather more natural fibres than man-made miracle fabrics . |
| 22 | That is a degree of how desperate he is to get this thing settled . ’ |
| 23 | He is wresting more money out of the Treasury to dilute the poll tax . |
| 24 | But he is accorded some sort of grudging acceptance by ‘ James , the brother of the Lord ’ , who dispatches him to Tarsus , to preach there . |
| 25 | The House has a right to know why he is suppressing that report . |
| 26 | He is suppressing this chagrin , of course — and he could scarcely be suppressing it if he were n't feeling it . |
| 27 | ‘ For your daughter 's sake , Mrs Abberley , make sure your husband does as he is told this time . |
| 28 | ‘ For your daughter 's sake , Mrs Abberley , make sure your husband does as he is told this time . |
| 29 | ‘ Graham has made it perfectly clear he does n't want to go to the West Indies next winter — but he 's said those sort of things before about touring and has ended up going . ’ |
| 30 | He had a new Coroma two litre and he 's towing this bloke on motorway at hundred mile an hour ! |