Example sentences of "he [be] doing [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | looked like a great big piano , you know , with like the buttons and he were doing this and they 've got every country within range on the wa on whatever it was , wall or a gantry , and if that was n't too , too good he , he were doing something and it come up . |
| 2 | he seemed to think he 's the er , he were doing it to sell them |
| 3 | First , is it false that he is doing something ? |
| 4 | confessed to having initially found ‘ prima facie perverse and incomprehensible ’ — was that a police officer is not acting in the execution of his duty if he is doing something that he is not compelled by law to do . |
| 5 | Apparently " The twentieth century Salvationist is an activist … he is happiest when he is doing something . " |
| 6 | He must persuade the public that he is doing something quickly , never mind the effectiveness of what he is doing . |
| 7 | He is doing something , at any rate , which makes Serafin have second thoughts . |
| 8 | It is now up to Ferguson to prove he is doing something more than repeating a cliched defence . |
| 9 | If he is doing what is against conscience , he is injuring his soul — remember that the Chancellor is an ecclesiastic — and it is better that he should be prevented from inflicting such injury on himself . |
| 10 | The specific social relations of such privilege are of course derived from the social order as a whole ; it is there that the patron 's powers and resources are enrolled or protected ; in the crudest terms , he is doing what he wishes with his own . |
| 11 | In fact if the books are anything to go by then he is doing everything wrong . |
| 12 | But Mr Abbell is adamant that he is doing nothing untoward . |
| 13 | He claims his recovery plan kills off Labour claims that he is doing nothing to combat unemployment . |
| 14 | Lij Yasu has his head shaved in the Danakil fashion and is living with the Danakil ; what food or milk he requires he seizes from the nearest villages , and he is doing nothing but hunt occasionally . |
| 15 | And just think of the calculations involved when a fielder runs to catch a cricket ball — he does n't necessarily realise he is doing it but he has to work out how high the ball is , how fast it is travelling , its precise direction and how quickly he has to run in order to catch it . |
| 16 | Library education will be more effective if the student understands what he is doing and why he is doing it — that is , if new facts can be related to existing knowledge . |
| 17 | Do you think he is doing it ? ’ |
| 18 | The teacher can make or mar the lesson , and your interest in what the child is doing and how he is doing it is all important . |
| 19 | workmen do n't guarantee that he is doing it according to the thing because |
| 20 | Now they go and ask him why he is doing it . ’ |
| 21 | If he is going down to defeat , as I suspect he is , he is doing it in style . |
| 22 | Whatever he may think he is doing he can only be discovering , like our romantic traveller , but perhaps much less aware of what he is doing , that in the last resort his desires outweigh his fears . |
| 23 | When he realizes what he is doing he is amazed . |
| 24 | But George and Arsenal can impress upon Wright the harm he is doing his own career . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's doing himself no good at all — just harm . ’ |
| 26 | He 's doing himself no favours . |
| 27 | He 's got a dem toda you know he 's doing something there . |
| 28 | He 's strong enough , he 's got a grudge , he 's doing something about it . |
| 29 | He sticks his tongue a lot when he 's sort of gets excited or he 's doing something . |
| 30 | ‘ Of course , that makes it all sadder and sicker that these things happened to Peter , and that he 's doing what he 's doing now . |