Example sentences of "he [is] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The huge eight-year-old gelding , whose appetite is so big that he is nicknamed Monster Munch , was led through a crowd of 500 well-wishers to his box at the Saxon House stables of his trainer , Nick Gaselee . |
| 2 | ‘ Sir ’ Bob is rocking on to Thames Quay on the Isle of Dogs , where he is establishing Planet 24 , a production company putting out The Big Breakfast Show for Channel 4 . |
| 3 | His wounded country needs time and international tolerance to recover and , accepting the inevitable , he is buying time with a series of compromises . |
| 4 | While he is living there he is stopping glue sniffers and vandals killing the fish and ruining the countryside . |
| 5 | While he is living there he is stopping glue sniffers and vandals killing the fish and ruining the countryside . |
| 6 | This is obviously far more satisfactory than leaving it to a widely dispersed class of persons each of whom may lack the skill , interest and financial resources required if he is to take action on his own . |
| 7 | George Bush makes a campaign television commercial about crime , but it features a black criminal , so he is called racist . |
| 8 | He is called Magister in the manuscripts , a title reserved for doctors of theology . |
| 9 | He is using middleweight and light-heavyweight sparring partners in an attempt to make Cooney work faster , but in the session I watched he was not quick enough . |
| 10 | He is using middleweight and light-heavyweight sparring partners in an attempt to make Cooney work faster , but in the session I watched he was not quick enough . |
| 11 | He is using wisdom and er his wisdom of life or knowledge of like perhaps rather than wisdom . |
| 12 | I am happy that he is receiving education suitable to age , ability and aptitude at home , in fact , between ourselves , it is probably more appropriate and worthwhile than that which he is likely to be receiving at school — not through any fault in the local schools but because schools can not always provide ideal circumstances for all learning and certainly can not provide the context in which John is operating . |
| 13 | How can the Prime Minister be so complacent and so indolent when he is receiving advice that something now needs to be done ? |
| 14 | When he walks down the corridor , he is striving fur success . |
| 15 | But this does not mean that he is advocating head-hunting . |
| 16 | He is creating man . |
| 17 | The seller , if he is to receive cash or debt securities rather than shares , would want a price that reflected as fully as possible the value to the buyer of creating a monopoly ( and thus the lost chance for the seller to do it himself ) . |
| 18 | Bruno was razor sharp himself as he added : ‘ He is earning money over here and buying houses in Canada . |
| 19 | He is bound apprentice to Joe , but suddenly finds himself being promised ‘ great expectations ’ from a mysterious benefactor by Mr Jaggers . |
| 20 | Senator Ted Kennedy revealed yesterday that he is to wed lawyer Victoria who 's father is to stand trial over an alleged fraud . |
| 21 | He does not know he is taking part in a battle . |
| 22 | Denied the opportunity of supervising a major programme of construction in New York , where the Whitney Museum 's trustees have been unable to agree Michael Graves 's proposal for an extension , he is taking responsibility for the final stages of the conversion , now estimated to cost $35 million , of an ornamental warehouse located on Pittsburgh 's North Side , which will accommodate the museum . |
| 23 | We can restate Saussure 's argument by saying that he is taking colour terminology as paradigmatic for all language ; just as colour terms impose arbitrary divisions on the continuous spectrum of light waves , so all other words impose arbitrary divisions on the ‘ indefinite plane of jumbled ideas ’ which , without language , would constitute our mental experience . |
| 24 | At the time of going to press he is taking action but the action has yet to come to trial . |
| 25 | The other supposed leader , Laurent Fabius , first secretary of the Socialist Party , is also severely incapacitated on account of his involvement in a scandal concerning the treatment of haemophiliacs with HIV-contaminated blood , for which he is facing manslaughter . |
| 26 | He is recommending Rank Organisation 8¼ p.c. ( down 1 at 103p ) , Carlton Communications 6½ p.c. ( steady at 84p ) and Queens Moat 7½ p.c. ( ½ weaker at 95½p ) in the first instance , together with British Land 6⅝ p.c. ( down £1 at £74 ) for those wanting a spicy play on the property sector . |
| 27 | Oh yes and er the I pass all the correspondence I have to the County Planning Officer who deals with it with the most enormous efficiency and I hope that he is maintaining liaison with what I call the Rucatse Group which consists of , Neil and Tony and somebody from Crawley who is I think it 's |
| 28 | He is in prison for committing violent crimes against English imperialism and he is demanding status as a political prisoner . |
| 29 | Shylock has been prosecuted , wrongly done on numerous occasions , by Antonio , therefore he is getting revenge — the Old Testament says he should . |
| 30 | He swims in the 50m butterfly , for which he is ranked No 3 in Britain , and hopes to compete in other events . |