Example sentences of "he [verb] be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kinds of errors he made are illustrated by these responses : |
| 2 | Almost any statement he made was punctuated with ‘ What do you think ? ’ or ‘ I 'd like your opinion on that . ’ |
| 3 | Every move he made was duplicated by the rest of the shoal at exactly the same speed and with absolute precision . |
| 4 | All the other experience that he devoured was put to the one obsessing activity . |
| 5 | He had decreed everyone should wear tartan shoes and since no-one had any , or could get any being stuck on the island , every pupil he met was punished for breaking the law . |
| 6 | Meanings he argued are created by differences . |
| 7 | The predictions made by Johnson were tested by simulation studies , which showed that even for a 100 per cent packed file , if the discipline he recommended is adhered to , the average number of accesses can be kept down to 1.5 per retrieval , and for larger bucket sizes this is reduced to around 1.25 . |
| 8 | Mr. Atkinson 's letter suggests that the initial judicial view is the only view on tariff which he thinks is relied upon for fixing the date of the first review . |
| 9 | so that 's done some work on that , and there 's now four models for training , one is the , you know , on the job , evenings , training , there 's the weekend model of getting people together for the weekend , there 's the sort of summer school idea and the other one 's the one that Doug keeps reminding me about , which I keep forgetting about which is the distance learning one , er we , I think this is the one he thinks is running in Dundee , that maybe help with because the idea of developing a pack which is kind of trainer proof |
| 10 | I think the old man 's a bit afraid to go into hospital , I know that he 's afraid obviously cos of the , the , this open heart surgery sort of thing but er , he 's also afraid that , he thinks were gon na have er such outrageous parties down the close and were gon na be open all night and things like that . |
| 11 | The basic problem he encountered was getting across why his own complete immaterialism was not itself more overtly and explicitly sceptical than the standard view that there exist both material bodies and incorporeal minds or spirits . |
| 12 | He fled and fled , and every door he found was painted with the black plague cross and every face he pleaded with was tinged with the red of plague fever . |
| 13 | Moreover , he noticed an electric lighting cable passing over the wall to an adjoining house , which he found was occupied by a senior official . |
| 14 | Most of the £406 million cash he owes was swindled from pension funds by his father before his mysterious death last year . |
| 15 | The empire he created was based around Bangkok Bank , South-East Asia 's largest , and included palm-oil plantations and hospitals among other things . |
| 16 | But the five-shot lead he created was trimmed to a manageable three shots for today 's third round which the English Ryder Cup man starts on a 13-under-par total of 131 . |
| 17 | The Giant Pope whom he encounters is turned into Giant Mahometan . |
| 18 | What I am trying to do is identify genetic potential long before the birth of the infant , and therefore long before he has been affected by his environment . |
| 19 | He has been affected by hamstring problems twice since joining us . |
| 20 | But in all cases he has been stopped by diocesan authorities as the centres are outside his parish . |
| 21 | In four of the illustrations the defendant appears naked after he has been mugged of his clothes . |
| 22 | It is clear that he has been speaking for some time . |
| 23 | It seems to have been working — up to a point at least — and even members of the opposition Popular Front agree that he has been accepted by many Moldavians . |
| 24 | The new Hermitage director has worked there for nearly two years as assistant academic director under acting-director Vitaliy Suslov , but he has been connected with the museum almost all his life ; his father , Academician Boris Piotrovskiy ( 1908–90 ) , was on the staff at the Hermitage for more than half a century , and was its director for twenty-six years before his death en poste . |
| 25 | He has been trying for three years and he said today : ‘ Maybe it is because , God knows , I 've had some leg problems and I just can not climb those steps that easily , ’ he joked . |
| 26 | He has been living in a succession of ANC havens . |
| 27 | For much of the last couple of decades , he has been living in France , where he is accorded a reverence denied him in his native country . |
| 28 | But that belonged to a white person who was , who could speak Punjabi very well , I think he wa he has been living in India for some time . |
| 29 | He has been living in Thailand , has a Thai wife and speaks Thai . |
| 30 | But I 'm happy with my decision to rest him because he has been competing since January , and Ever is an improving horse . ’ |