Example sentences of "he [is] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He s doing the same now with Whelan and Forrester etc . |
| 2 | Similarly , we can criticise wilko for being negative — but we do nt know if he s told the team to go out there and score at all costs , but the team just has nt responded . |
| 3 | At the inspectorate he is advising the Home Secretary on policy in four crucial areas : complaints and discipline ; firearms ; public order and counter-terrorism . |
| 4 | He is wearing the familiar Puttnam cardigan look , but is smaller than I expected , like so many who are writ large in the media . |
| 5 | He is wearing the mantle now , made from the skins of the hyrax , a flea-ridden animal which looks like a giant guinea pig . |
| 6 | ‘ I believe he is bringing the sport into disrepute . |
| 7 | I would understand it if the Minister were saying merely that he is reorganising the same amount of resources , but he has cut resources . |
| 8 | You just see he is filling the eyes of your friends |
| 9 | If the defendant has made an interim payment before he pays in , his notice must specifically refer to the interim payment and aggregate the two amounts if he is to put the plaintiff at risk for the total . |
| 10 | Bill rates Ayr , along with Ascot , Newmarket and York , as one of his favourite tracks and he is eyeing the Ayr Gold Cup next Saturday as a possible target for his consistent Big Hand . |
| 11 | Ah not too bad he says the doctor says I 've got a festered back passage Dessie says and there he is scrubbing the fuck imagine |
| 12 | Again at Easter he is arguing over his fee for attending the Archbishop at Canterbury and threatens that unless he is payed the sum of twenty shillings a day for three days he would never again obey the Archbishop 's mandate . |
| 13 | FORMER Tottenham defender Paul Miller yesterday revealed he is helping the consortium bidding to buy-out Barnet chairman Stan Flashman for £1 million . |
| 14 | Thus a car dealer does not obtain the protection and that is so even if he is buying the vehicle for his own private purposes and not for his business purposes , Stevenson v. Beverley Bentinck ( 1976 C.A. ) . |
| 15 | In any event the purchaser will want to know that he is buying the right assets from the right companies . |
| 16 | Oh , but that but he is acting the whole time , that 's not him being him . |
| 17 | He is moving the factory to Doncaster ( though he will keep an office in London ) and looking for voluntary redundancies . |
| 18 | Dutifully he is moving the chairs in his living room , humming to himself and glancing repeatedly at his drinks cabinet , when the door bell rings . |
| 19 | If it was any other manager , I would have to keep him informed , because in theory he is coordinating the whole process . |
| 20 | He is confident , brave and agile , and from what we can gather he is rated the best in America . |
| 21 | At the age of 37 — old by Australian standards — Border accepts that he is nearing the end of his career but he is desparate to prolong it for two reasons . |
| 22 | The veteran former Wimbledon striker , 34 in March , and an almost perpetual substitute for Sheffield United this season , knows he is nearing the end of his big-time career . |
| 23 | ‘ Lord , there is one ruler over all the known worlds , and he is called the Emperor . |
| 24 | Pausanias says he is on the god 's left , and I conclude that he is using the words from the spectator 's point of view , as I believe he does in his account of Polygnotos 's paintings at Delphi . |
| 25 | ‘ He is using the privy , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Even as he uses the accommodation in Annexe A to manoeuvre Serafin into discovering for himself the waiting garret , so he is using the garret to manoeuvre him into rejecting all the proposed associates in Annexe B. Once Serafin has insisted on installing himself in the garret — against all reasonable advice — he is going to discover that the kind of staff he needs will be young and agile , with a good knowledge of the backstairs of Government buildings and an ability to duck their heads and remain inclined slightly forwards for long periods of time . |
| 27 | He is reaching the age , you see , when he will be expected to play a larger part in public affairs . |
| 28 | he is breaking the court orders , |
| 29 | The difference between the rhetorical and social representational approaches can be illustrated by considering a quotation from Moscovici ( 1984 ) , in which he is discussing the social nature of social representations : ‘ The word ‘ social ’ was meant to indicate that representations are the outcome of an unceasing babble and a permanent dialogue between individuals , a dialogue that is both internal and external , during which representations are echoed or complemented ’ ( Moscovici , 1984 : 950 ) . |
| 30 | Trying to repair the damage done to McKendrick 's positive face , he asks to be excused for his own inadequacies : Anderson 's upholding of the modesty maxim is augmented by the emphasis he puts on the sincerity of his apology ( the tonic syllable in the first sentence falling on " am " ) , stressing that he is fulfilling the felicity conditions ( Searle : 1969 ) for that speech act . |