Example sentences of "[verb] he be [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man accused of murdering one pub customer and injuring another , has claimed he was acting in self defence . |
| 2 | Only in his more recent work The Power of the Center , published in 1988 , has he been looking from art to the resources offered by psychology . |
| 3 | They say he was looking for evidence of natura naturans ‘ all-creating nature ’ , rather than natura naturata , ‘ the made world ’ ; in certain seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writing of unimpeachable orthodoxy reference is made to anima mundi , a spirit pervading the world and supplying the continuing presence of God . |
| 4 | Would he pull through and , like himself , fall in love — or imagine he was falling in love — with his nurse ? |
| 5 | And then you get lots of other unwelcome knocks on the door — one man who says he 's looking for number 11 , another who says he 's a taxi-driver who 's come to the wrong house — and he probably is but his timing is enough to make you rush about panicking and locking the place up like Fort Knox . |
| 6 | Lawn Tennis : Beaten Borg says he 's playing for fun and the fans |
| 7 | ‘ There is a gap between what he says he is doing with film and what he actually does . |
| 8 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates says he is working with Time Warner Inc to bring experimental two-way television to some 5,000 Florida homes by early 1994 , the Orlando Sentinel reported , adding that the two companies are working toward making such two-way systems more user-friendly ; Gates said that he studied several other experimental two-way television systems but chose the Orlando project because it seemed to offer the best interactive possibilities of ordering movies , making financial transactions and ‘ creating a computer window into the world of information ’ . |
| 9 | He says he is praying for rain , but is n't yet resorting to a rain dance . |
| 10 | When he woke he was lying in Dad 's bed . |
| 11 | ‘ He must feel he is walking on water at the moment , but come Christmas when the goals do n't go in , what happens then ? |
| 12 | Millions of BBC Radio 2 listeners heard disc jockey Ed ‘ Stewpot ’ Stewart express surprise at being told he was standing on top of the largest onshore oilfield in western Europe . |
| 13 | I know he was thinking about divorce again , but Georgina would n't have made it easy . |
| 14 | Colette Douglas-Home talks to Daniel Marks about how his life changed when , at the age of 17 , he discovered he was suffering from cancer |
| 15 | that he neither knew nor had reason to believe he was driving without insurance . |
| 16 | However , the Pioneer Corps sent him straight back , insisting he was suffering from VD . |
| 17 | And erm , I knew he was going to prison . |
| 18 | It 's believed he 's suffering from depression after being refused leave to appeal against his conviction . |
| 19 | I thought he 's going to sleep again . |
| 20 | ‘ The stewardess thought he was weeping for happiness at being free . |
| 21 | Wynne-Jones shuddered ; Tallis thought he was coughing with pain , but he was laughing . |
| 22 | Presumably she thought he was phoning from home — something he 'd never do . |
| 23 | He grabbed my tie and I thought he was going to nut me in the face . |
| 24 | Investigations revealed he was driving without insurance or a licence . |
| 25 | ‘ I like the quiet of Beckenham , where no one bothers your balls , ’ said Dad , thinking that that was the end of the matter , as it would have been had he been talking to Mum . |
| 26 | Had he been standing within striking distance , then , as her fury overflowed , Leith was fairly certain she would have hit him . |
| 27 | In 1984 opinion polls showed that Ronald Reagan would have been decisively defeated had he been running for re-election in Britain . |
| 28 | His son Frederick had written to say he was coming on leave and Mr Evans kept busy , tidying the shop and getting the books up to date . |
| 29 | She said do n't tell such bloody lies , I said he 's going in caravan ! |
| 30 | Sentencing the two men , Judge Richard May said he was bearing in mind that the defendants had n't put the money in their own pockets or used it to support expensive lifestyles . |