Example sentences of "he is [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man who advertised for a woman to live on a desert island with him is looking for another female travelling companion to repeat the trip . |
| 2 | At the end , Josey settles down with Eastwood 's then-girlfriend Sondra Locke , whose public split with him is reflected in Unforgiven by the death of Bill Munny 's wife , the influence who led him away from violence . |
| 3 | But he must go on to explain the sorts of variations which have this effect on individuals ( or other subjects ) if he is to rely on counterfactual claims about the actions of subjects . |
| 4 | Waugh himself ca n't be blamed for the wrenching out of a context that might have helped us to understand whether he is referring to unhappy women , rendered so by not being content with their lot , or men , who are now being forced to lend a hand with the Hoover . |
| 5 | ‘ Everything 's more difficult these days , ’ grumbles a bed-ridden pensioner in a Chilean film ; and although , as it happens , he is referring to that day 's crossword , the comment itself speaks volumes . |
| 6 | Perhaps he is referring to some figures that were leaked a couple of weeks ago from the Industrial Development Board for Northern Ireland — a reference to 44 inward investment jobs . |
| 7 | He is born with that instinct , for no mother wasp ever taught him , nor does he possess the capacity to learn something so fundamental to his existence . |
| 8 | He is assisted by two or more technical assessors also appointed by the Lord Chancellor . |
| 9 | He is selected for that reason , because he will not be suspected by the police . ’ |
| 10 | They applied the well established ploy of neutralising the troublemaker by proposing him for the position of chairman , where he is obliged above all to be impartial . |
| 11 | On top of all that , he is blessed with terrific good looks . |
| 12 | ‘ ( 1 ) Subject to the following provisions of this section , a child who is being looked after by a local authority may not be placed , and , if placed , may not be kept , in accommodation provided for the purpose of restricting liberty ( ‘ secure accommodation ’ ) unless it appears — ( a ) that — ( i ) he has a history of absconding and is likely to abscond from any other description of accommodation ; and ( ii ) if he absconds , he is likely to suffer significant harm ; or ( b ) that if he is kept in any other description of accommodation he is likely to injure himself or other persons . |
| 13 | A Balinese , like a tree , he told us , must remember that he is strung between two worlds , balanced between the pull of gravity and the pull of heaven . |
| 14 | If he moves into an enemy then he is engaged in hand-to-hand combat and must fight in the following hand-to-hand combat round ( he counts as charging in the first round as is also the case with magically induced movement ) . |
| 15 | The first target tonight will be Brian Close , the former Yorkshire and England captain and now chairman of the cricket sub-committee , on which he is supported by such luminaries as Bob Appleyard , Phil Sharpe , Bryan Stott and Bob Platt , all ex-players . |
| 16 | Why is it , therefore , he is supported by thousands of Moroccan troops ( Arabs ) who , by no stretch of the imagination can be called Christians ? |
| 17 | In these circumstances it is sufficient for the broker to disclose to the customer that he is acting as principal , provided that he does not charge commission . |
| 18 | Spasticity can also cause pain anywhere in the hemiplegic side : the pain may occur when associated reactions happen , for instance when the patient is asleep , or when he is moving without proper control . |
| 19 | What Stephen says and what Stephen thinks begin to merge because the punctuation mark that indicates ‘ now my character speaks ’ is missing.Joyce does use the dash , however , to show that he is moving from descriptive narrative to direct expression . |
| 20 | Johnny McBride is hardly out of the Juvenile ranks but he is regarded as one of the most talented under-age players within the Oak Leaf county . |
| 21 | When a man looks at nature as Thoreau did , he is moved by some invisible influence . |
| 22 | ‘ The helpful guidebook , in Hungarian and German , told me that this sportive Death was saying , ‘ In this doleful jeste of Life , I shew the state of Manne , and how he is called at uncertayne tymes by Me to forget all that he hath and lose All . ’ |
| 23 | He is called upon both to defend his faith against stiff opposition and to spread it among his friends . |
| 24 | He is looking for that quality which you must allow me to call ‘ modernity ’ ; for I know of no better word to express the idea I have in mind . |
| 25 | Following the completion of the acquisition of Framlington 's private client fund management business in January and the recruitment of five new investment managers in Liverpool , he is looking for increased investment revenues in this year . |
| 26 | Their daughter , Shelagh , has moved to Belfast where she has a job in an office but her younger brother , Sean helps here and there on the farm while he is looking for some other work , sadly without too much hope , since there is already much unemployment in the towns . |
| 27 | He is looking for any ambiguous opportunity to take his gun and do the worst . |
| 28 | Will the right hon. Gentleman say what support he is receiving from other G7 countries for his recent endorsement of a rouble stabilisation fund ? |
| 29 | Bill Walker , MP for Tayside North , said : ‘ He is living on borrowed time . ’ |
| 30 | After all , when you have laboured in the engine room for several years and are then suddenly confronted by some of the highest honours the sport can confer it is understandable that a player might believe he is living in another world . |