Example sentences of "he [is] [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Credit to Whelan — he s played well enough , but strikers work in pairs … |
| 2 | But he s doing remarkably well considering he is a natural right winger . |
| 3 | He s doing better now than Speed did in the side when he first came in — Speed tended to be rather anonymous ( something Wilko actually said too ) , but he had the potential to ‘ have people leaving the ground saying ‘ That No. 11 was a good little player ’ ' , those were Wilkos very words . |
| 4 | Cairns had taken 6 for 70 in the Lancashire first innings , and after watching him add 5 for 75 against Kent Robinson commented : ‘ He is still a youngster but he is setting in well and showing what an excellent prospect he is . ’ |
| 5 | Though his current technique is based on the battle against fast bowling ( he is moving back rather than across in an attempt to eliminate his Achilles heel , the lbw decision ) , he plays slow bowling with rare arrogance . |
| 6 | Though his current technique is based on the battle against fast bowling ( he is moving back rather than across in an attempt to eliminate his Achilles heel , the lbw decision ) , he plays slow bowling with rare arrogance . |
| 7 | ‘ He is looking really well but obviously lacks a recent run and will be conceding weight to the whole field , ’ said trainer James Fanshawe . |
| 8 | However , among the lucky or sheltered it is common enough for someone to have the uneasy feeling that he is living too comfortably , might find himself unprepared to cope if his present security were to collapse , lacks adequate understanding of miseries outside his experience . |
| 9 | He is speaking very slowly ( as does the Leader , |
| 10 | If , say , he borrows £5,000 three times , repaying it each time , he is treated as severely as someone who borrows £15,000 outright . |
| 11 | ‘ He is grieving very deeply . ’ |
| 12 | Knowing how hard times are , local dealer Ernst Beyeler is inviting visitors to join a pilgrimage from market to temple : until 27 September , he is taking over both Kunstmuseum and Kunsthalle to stage an exhibition . |
| 13 | Again he is taking over precisely the ‘ modern ’ definitions and oppositions , between the normal and pathological , the natural and unnatural , etc. , which have been shown to be both confused and ideological in the narrow sense . |
| 14 | I am afraid that he is getting very near to the Nuremburg defence of saying that he was only obeying orders . |
| 15 | I think once more , but now for the last time , I 'm going to turn back again to the preface to The Reason of Church Government and whoops and read you one more sentence erm in which he is apologizing once more for having entered the fray , the political fray ‘ But although a poet , soaring in the high region of his fancies , with his garland and singing robes about him , might without apology speak more of himself than I mean to do , yet for me , sitting here below in the cool element of prose , a mortal thing among many readers of no imperial conceit , to venture and divulge unusual things of myself , I shall petition to the gentler sort it may not be envy to me . ’ |
| 16 | Even the one who has betrayed the light sooner or later is forced to come back to the centre of stability , where he is raised once more into the understanding of clarity and purity of thought and action . |
| 17 | But he is writing too slowly |
| 18 | He is gone too soon and will be sadly missed by his family and friends . |
| 19 | He is acknowledged worldwide now as the master alchemist whose inspired blending of the human elements at his disposal has made a nonsense of perceived national pool strengths . |
| 20 | But , to return one final time to Bakhtin , in case he is appropriated yet again to legitimate a selective and ludicrously ahistorical celebration of ‘ carnival ’ : |
| 21 | He is seen here later in the year after posting to East Africa , with a Curtiss Mahawk in the background . |
| 22 | Because , Nizan asserts , Friedmann is unable to perceive the necessity of the organic link between theory and practice , he is led not only to the purely academic conclusion that it is incorrect to speak of the " philosophy " of either Lenin or Stalin , but also , and more significantly , to an inability to perceive the fundamentally different objectives pursued by Lenin and Trotsky . |
| 23 | He is progressing very well and there are no problems . ’ |
| 24 | All he is concentrating on now is his first-round score . |
| 25 | Now , in the run up to the general election , he is talking more modestly of its showing a ‘ progression in votes . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ As you can see , he is sleeping perfectly well . ’ |
| 27 | He is sitting there now , fat and inanimate as a sack of flour , staring out of the window as the lights come on . |
| 28 | Kevin is in charge of the shirt because he is playing so well and long may it continue . |
| 29 | Yet he is included quite correctly on the Bayeux memorial to the missing as belonging to the S.A.S. By some error , however , his name is omitted altogether from the Edinburgh University war memorial under the arches of the Old Quad , where daily we used to meet . |
| 30 | But the man who desires to know himself more completely — however strange and confusing his discoveries may be — he is drawn further within until he finds in the texts a mirror of his own complexity . |