Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] he [be] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think ca n't really remember I do n't know how father would use different language he 's talking to his son or daughter . |
| 2 | He shrugged easily , his shoulders moving under the formal dark suit he was wearing to such devastating effect . |
| 3 | There was a time , early in their days at Cambridge , when a brilliant and handsome research student from Yale made a determined pitch for Robyn , and she had been rather dazzled and excited by the experience ( he wooed her with a heady mixture of the latest post Freudian theoretical jargon and devastatingly frank sexual propositions , so she was never quite sure whether it was Lacan 's symbolic phallus he was referring to or his own real one ) . |
| 4 | Spittals ' hands glowed from the diligent rubbing he was applying to them as she came in through the door at ten o'clock . |
| 5 | ( 3 September 1778 ) Mozart made it quite clear to his father that the only reason he was returning to Salzburg was to be with him : |
| 6 | Erm the only way he is going to be able to do that is when his dead . |
| 7 | Surely Ashenden would have gone up to the Pay-Out desk immediately , if he 'd been there especially since that was the only time he was going to be in the betting-shop . |
| 8 | Only the other day he was saying to me ‘ Tim it 's abart time I answered sum a them letters I ‘ ave pilin' up from poor folk as ‘ ave ‘ ad personal problems . ’ |