Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh det] he [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And wherever there was a suggestion of a space there would be a craftsman bent over his work : a weaver over his loom , a metal-worker crouched over a dish of grey ash fanning a lump of live charcoal in its midst with a blowpipe , a basket-worker holding what he was making with his toes so as to leave his hands free , a turner doing his turning with a little bow which might have been used to shoot arrows , the man making pegs for the ornate wooden windows .
2 Indeed , Picasso 's admiration for various complementary , at times even formally opposed categories of tribal sculpture is indicative of the instinctive pull which he was feeling between an increased interest in solid , sculptural forms and an awareness of the need to depict them in a manner that did not violate the flat , two-dimensional plane on which he was working .
3 Kevin looked at the policeman as he leaned to accept the proffered match which he was shielding with his fingers .
4 They have come to their agreement , they have done their job well , and they have produced and excellent education system and the blip which he is talking about is one which is forced on us at the present time by a Conservative Government , who has decided that there is going to be no further expansion in the school service which we 're providing , and indeed is imposing upon us cuts which are going to mean that we reduce those services , and to argue that from a point of view that it 's a considered piece of policy from a Government which if I has introduced , if I may say , Poll Tax , an economy which is a disaster area , exports in nothing happening there , inflation
5 The erstwhile bandido wore a bloody nose which he was dabbing at with an oversized tartan handkerchief .
6 His enormous hands dwarfed the elegant menu which he was studying in apparent disbelief , and Peter Yeo noticed again , as Barton without rising extended one massive paw , that though the fingers were an ordinary length it was the width of the palms that made the hands so large .
7 He is obviously serious about it as he also has a 1926 3 litre Bentley which he is upgrading to 4.5 to race .
8 Now 54 , he earns double what he was getting at Narva , and is helping to develop business with east German companies .
9 Bott was given huge amounts of space on the inside pages of Ink in December 1971 and January 1972 to set out the scrambled views on life which he was culling from a variety of standard left-wing and anarchist gurus .
10 Firstly , Dustin is hidden under a folding bed which he is repairing in readiness for his first sexual experience , and then he is off-camera , talking to his parents , in the one comic-satiric scene that Woody Allen might not have disowned .
11 He was also carrying £70,000 which he was depositing in a bank for payment for the work that had just been completed .
12 The most comprehensive survey of Nicholson 's art since the exhibition held at the Gulbenkian Foundation , Lisbon , and the Fondacion Juan March , Madrid , in 1987 , it is Lewison 's dress rehearsal for the major retrospective of more than one hundred works which he is organising for the Tate Gallery in the autumn of1994 .
13 The papal letter which he was carrying to the king had been superseded by another , which spoke more mildly and suggested that Anselm himself had been a mischief-maker , and that a compromise agreement could be reached with good will on both sides .
14 So although there is not as yet any definitive question , any definitive answer to this same question which was raised by Mr a couple of years ago , it is under consideration and we would hope that the sort of answer which he is hoping for might be forthcoming from that source .
15 She met Penry 's favourite sister Kit and her husband , Reid Livesey , ate some supper , laughed and chatted with more of Penry 's friends , and all the time she burned with the need to ask Penry what he was playing at , why he 'd thrown down his unexpected announcement like a gauntlet in front of his voluptuous ex-wife .
16 I do n't think this means that there is no saying what he is getting at in these works ; opinions can and will be formed , and for the extent of the present discussion I have been attempting to express one .
17 Once the Tunnel opens — or maybe just before it does and before the French realize what 's going on and think up a way to stop it — he 'll sell them for maybe a thousand times what he 's paying for them now . ’
18 I looked at him puzzled and said I did n't have a clue what he was talking about .
19 ( At the time I had not a clue what he was talking about but , in hindsight , he was , of course , referring to Boleyn 's ascendancy over Fat Henry and Wolsey falling like a star from the sky of royal preferment . )
20 ‘ I do n't , ’ she told him , a shade edgily it was true , but then , for all he understood , and spoke her language , she still did n't have a clue what he was talking about .
21 The fee was n't much , but Harford wanted a club in the south and that was it — not much consolation for Kendall , who knows he might well have done for Everton what he 's doing for Chelsea , helping to turn them into a real Premier League force .
22 ‘ Mr Brown 's remarks reveal he has no idea what he is talking about .
23 Have you got any idea what he 's talking about ?
24 I had no idea what he was referring to , and remembering his strange behaviour with the piece of paper , I began to fear that he might be going mad .
25 I nodded , although I had absolutely no idea what he was talking about .
26 Because , you see , I had no idea what he was talking about .
27 I had n't any idea what he was talking about but I listened attentively to his description of lands I had never imagined , with their dark green forests , snowy slopes and frozen lakes .
28 He had a number of handbills which he was distributing to everyone who passed so I took one nonchalantly and his kind , brown eyes smiled .
29 Dr Davies is also looking forward to offering this wine list at a dinner which he is planning in his capacity as Chaplain to Mr Ian Phillips , the new High Sheriff of Nottingham .
30 It was this constant strain of pessimism , both about his own writing and about the civilization of which he was a part , that Wyndham Lewis tried to evoke in a portrait of Eliot which he was painting in the spring of 1949 " The body slightly tilted , " he explained , " … in resigned anticipation of the worst .
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