Example sentences of "[adv] he [be] [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he came down he was wearing a professional air and said the symptoms were those of food poisoning . |
| 2 | Well perhaps he 's buying a bleeding washing machine |
| 3 | On another level , perhaps he was fighting a wayward spirit he could not control . |
| 4 | He 's a builder fair enough but nevertheless he 's doing a good job . |
| 5 | A few minutes later he was uncorking a fine claret in Masha 's room , saying he had something to celebrate : he 'd been invited to breakfast at Downing Street to help brief Maggie for her trip to Poland . |
| 6 | Last month he starred as the poor man 's hero in the film Robin Hood and now he 's playing a wealthy land agent in Granada TV 's new series , The Real Charlotte , which starts next Monday . |
| 7 | Miss J. has pretty well run him and now he 's doing a roaring trade and has just married a daughter of Lord Lytton , he 's evidently right in with the right lot of people … and what a God 's mercy that for once in a way these people have got hold of the right man and what a thing for England . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ And now he is playing a little game with you . ’ |
| 9 | Now he is forging a new career as a poet , author and songwriter . |
| 10 | And now he was passing a second and more dilapidated pillbox and it struck him that the whole headland had the desolate look of an old battlefield , the corpses long since carted away but the air vibrating still with the gunfire of long-lost battles , while the power station loomed over it like a grandiose modern monument to the unknown dead . |
| 11 | It turned out he was escaping a planned course of ECT because no one on his ward believed he might have a drink problem . |
| 12 | Often he was fighting a lonely battle . |
| 13 | Today he 's living a quiet life in Bromyard . |
| 14 | Today he was wearing a clerical collar , as was , more often than Canon Wheeler , his habit . |
| 15 | Well he 's going a good way of doing it is n't he |
| 16 | Chramn 's actions are best interpreted as those of a prince determined to have some share in the Merovingian kingdom : effectively he was creating a new kingdom in his father 's lifetime . |
| 17 | A SPLIT second earlier he was driving a racing car . |
| 18 | You may not recall that , when Edgar Oldroyd asked him how he was enjoying a long spell bowling into the wind , he answered , ‘ It 's like bowling up t'bloody cellar steps . ’ |
| 19 | At this time of the year , if Napoleon had not returned , Sharpe should have been thinning the apple crop , stripping away basketloads of young fruit to give the remaining crop a better chance of ripening in the autumn , but instead he was riding a dusty road in Belgium and searching for an enemy . |
| 20 | Cabinet ministers were exasperated that he allowed last Thursday , when he was facing a big test in the Commons , to be dominated by the resignation of a junior member of the Cabinet . |
| 21 | Later that evening , when he was playing a desultory game of Scrabble with Broughton and Hoddnett , two of the older boys , he casually brought the subject up . |
| 22 | This was both a matter of pride and of business sense at a time when he was making a major export drive towards America . |
| 23 | That , and the need to earn a living , are the reasons behind his desire to stay in the US where he is seeking a green card as a full-time athlete having graduated from Stanford University last year . |
| 24 | Earlier yesterday Ms Place had shown the world heavyweight boxing champion , Riddick Bowe , around Mogadishu , where he was making a brief charity visit . |
| 25 | Yes , well I was on a r a radio programme with him at one time and er and he was telling about some of his sticky stories , and there was one where he was doing a similar job from a farmhouse and he picked the furniture up and had to drive down this long drive to get onto the road and the the farmer , who presumably was the man who felt er an injustice to him was being done as it were , he was on his tractor , saw the van moving down the driveway , took a shortcut to the road edge , and fired a shotgun at his van . . |
| 26 | That 's why he is fielding a strong reserve side at Liverpool tonight . |
| 27 | he said I know I ca n't get a rubber boat and an oar at the back of this bloody three wheeler , that 's why he 's having a moped |
| 28 | Okay he 's doing a hundred miles an hour . |