Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He s doing the same now with Whelan and Forrester etc . |
| 2 | I do n't think I 've heard him speak before , he s got a great Yorkshire accent for a Welsh lad . |
| 3 | Had he been doing the same job when he was in Suffolk ? |
| 4 | In this city where everything is possible , and he cuts such a figure in his light suit and striped silk tie , and is 32 and full of self-confidence , and can walk up to a girl he has never seen before and with a disarming smile ask her when lighting-up time is — how can he be wearing a maroon crew-necked sweater , and cavalry twill trousers with turnups , and be 22 , and find himself running after a girl and being told that she may or may not see him tomorrow ? |
| 5 | She wanted him to feel as if he were kissing a lifeless rag doll . |
| 6 | Tenderly he touched her , kissed her lips , not with passion now , but with a delicate reverence , as if he were kissing the fragile bloom of a rare flower . |
| 7 | He ran his eyes down the column of figures as if he were taking a good look at Voluptua Whoopee in a no-piece swimsuit and whistled ‘ Dixie . ’ |
| 8 | At Oxford he had gained a First in Greats , for which , according to a contemporary , he had worked as if he were taking a chartered accountancy exam . |
| 9 | In the course of filling his lungs he felt as if he were rising a few inches off the ground . |
| 10 | Dad started off in statesman-like fashion , as if he were addressing the United Nations , earnestly saying he 'd come to love Eva over the time he 'd known her and so on . |
| 11 | How on earth would it affect his negotiating position if he were to give the net farm income figures on the impact of his own proposals set out in ’ Our Farming Future ’ ? |
| 12 | ‘ Sit down , Mr O'Malley , ’ he said in a slow ponderous voice , as though he were inviting a weary traveller to take his ease . |
| 13 | While the view which I earlier called crude materialism is not compatible with Althusser 's general position , it would be remarkable if he were to relegate the economic aspects of society to exactly the same status as everything else . |
| 14 | If he were to defeat a Labour government as soon as it had taken office , the Liberals would be accused of frivolity in precipitating an unnecessary election , especially if Labour contented itself with moderate policies as it intended to do . |
| 15 | The local authority , which shared parental responsibility for J. in consequence of a care order made under the Children Act 1989 , obtained leave under section 100 of the Act to invoke the court 's inherent jurisdiction to determine whether artificial ventilation and/or other life-saving measures should be administered to J. if he were to suffer a life-threatening event . |
| 16 | By an order dated 30 March 1992 Waite J. granted the local authority 's application under section 100(3) of the Children Act 1989 for leave to invoke the court 's inherent jurisdiction to determine whether artificial ventilation and/or other life-saving measures should be given to J. , an infant for whom the local authority shared parental responsibility pursuant to a care order made under the Act of 1989 , if he were to suffer a life-threatening event . |
| 17 | He had never physically hurt her , although there had been more than one occasion towards the end of their short , fraught marriage when he had looked as if he were making a huge effort to stop himself raising a hand to her . |
| 18 | One man in the back row is waving his paddle as if he were directing a jumbo jet , while a lady in the front demurely flicks her pencil . |
| 19 | As White and John Parrott , who currently occupies third spot , both failed to survive the qualifying rounds in Blackpool last September , Hendry will open up a sizeable lead in the standings if he were to capture the European title for the first time . |
| 20 | Any manufacturing jeweller would honestly be able to take over a consignment of several hundred , especially if he were offered a 10 or 15 per cent discount on market price . |
| 21 | Mr MacGregor , the Chairman of British Steel in 1980 , would not have chosen either place if he were starting a new industry today . |
| 22 | He felt as if he were running a high fever . |
| 23 | ‘ Perhaps three , ’ he said mildly at last , as if he were answering the simplest and most natural of questions . |
| 24 | It was rubbing up and down as if he were titillating an unseen erogenous zone . |
| 25 | I know that he would not like to do any injustice to the report , but if he were to read the second paragraph , which contains its judgment on the Bill , he might come to a different conclusion . |
| 26 | We must remember that he is waging a dirty war . |
| 27 | He is wearing a blue tunic and around his shoulders is a fur cloak made of the skins of the hyrax . |
| 28 | He is wearing a faded navy-blue trench-coat with a collar that curls shrunkenly upwards . |
| 29 | He is wearing the familiar Puttnam cardigan look , but is smaller than I expected , like so many who are writ large in the media . |
| 30 | I would understand it if the Minister were saying merely that he is reorganising the same amount of resources , but he has cut resources . |