Example sentences of "he is [adv prt] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gooch 's 133 failed to save England but it proved he is back to top form just like Wasim , who said : ‘ I am playing well , enjoying my cricket and giving 100 per cent for Lancashire . |
| 2 | He has shown the character and hopefully he is back to stay . ’ |
| 3 | The 32-year-old Irishman , who has had eight operations on his knees , has told Atkinson that rumours that he is about to quit are ‘ absolute nonsense ’ . |
| 4 | If he disturbs a trespasser , for example , and tells him that he is about to use force to expel the intruder , there is no doubt that the intruder realises that he is being threatened , and that violence is about to be used against him . |
| 5 | Lord Salmon gave as an example two instances of the valuation of a picture , the first for a client who does not tell him the reason for the valuation , and the second where the client tells him the valuation is needed because he is about to sell the picture to a friend . |
| 6 | DARLINGTON boss Ray Hankin last night denied that he is about to sell star keeper Mark Prudhoe and striker Nick Cusack . |
| 7 | He is about to leave when Manolo 's four wild , vivacious , beautiful daughters arrive from Madrid . |
| 8 | But against that , unemployment is soaring , industry running out of patience and he is about to authorise massive cuts in public spending . |
| 9 | We begin with Belbo phoning from Paris to say , ‘ They 're after me , ’ and the telephone going dead just as he is about to give the password for the computer file which holds the final explanation known to him alone . |
| 10 | The major question thus always remains unanswered in the Critique : every time that Sartre announces that he is about to proceed with the fundamental problem of how History can be a totalization without a totalizer , he turns back to a previous , more easily intelligible stage on the way . |
| 11 | Realising too that he is about to lose Kate to her anger and the night , Jeremy forces a pleasanter expression to his face . |
| 12 | He may well have heard in some reach of his mind an as yet uncreated harmony , as a composer hears the music that he is about to translate into sound . |
| 13 | The image of the ascent of the ladder is relevant not only to the process of spiritual development he is about to describe , but also to the careful sequential structuring of his teaching where images and arguments accumulate to point towards a greater synthetic understanding . |
| 14 | He is about to perform for the Archimage himself . |
| 15 | How often will anti-Europeans sneeringly bait him by reminding the House that he is about to bail out ? |
| 16 | John 's feeling of self-worth will equip him better to cope with the trauma that he is about to face . |
| 17 | He looks as if he is about to burst into tears . |
| 18 | He is about to throw the rig back over his head and momentarily will have no hands on the boom until his front hand grips . |
| 19 | One day , just as he is about to throw himself off a cliff , he sees Custer riding for Little Big Horn . |
| 20 | All we can say is that the burden of the wood adds further poignancy to an already heart-rending story , and throughout the journey acts as an all too visible reminder to Abraham of the act he is about to commit . |
| 21 | whether it 's Hornsey Lane he is about to enter on the other side of Highgate Hill , or whether he has confused Highgate Hill with Highgate West Hill once again ; |
| 22 | Muller , however , is surprised to find himself in the company of players he once idolised , and he has yet to recognise that he is about to become a similar figure . |
| 23 | But soon he is forced by famine to go down to Egypt , and when he is about to cross the border he resorts to a ploy which knocks him straight off any pedestal we might have erected for him . |
| 24 | ‘ He is about to suffer a tragic accident which will signal the end of his incredible , action-packed career as Britain 's greatest goal-scoring hero , ’ said the Roy of the Rovers editor , Dave Hunt . |
| 25 | The end of the barrel roll is coming up , and he is about to roll right . |
| 26 | Another of the promising young American players , 1990 US Open winner Pete Sampras , 20 , believes he is about to make a breakthrough in the world rankings . |
| 27 | Presumably he is about to resign the Whip , or something of that sort , from the Labour party in this place . |
| 28 | But nothing much has happened this year that suggests he is about to start firing . |
| 29 | But nothing much has happened this year to suggest he is about to start firing . |
| 30 | ( Enter HAMLET behind , crossing the stage , reading a book — as he is about to disappear GUIL notices him . ) |