Example sentences of "he [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His head had an odd tilt or cock to it , set on the shoulders as if he were looking up from the bars of a drop-handled bike . |
| 2 | It was as if he were shitting out of every pore . ’ |
| 3 | He took a briefcase with him , as if he were going back to the Works . |
| 4 | This weekend , buoyed by the growing Liberal Democrat support and the trend to a hung Parliament in the most recent opinion polls , he is moving on to the next stage : cranking up the case for a coalition . |
| 5 | He is moving back towards the bad practice of selective tax shelters , which Mr Lawson had undermined in his five years as chancellor . |
| 6 | She pulls off her t-shirt , she is safe while he is swimming out to the centre , she slips out of the rest of her clothes , kicks off the espadrilles , and running along the boards dives in . |
| 7 | There are computer games on the market in which the player has the illusion that he is wandering about in an underground labyrinth , which has a definite if complex geography and in which he encounters dragons , minotaurs or other mythic adversaries . |
| 8 | Though he still likes the animal and slapstick comics , he is branching out into the blood-and-thunder type . |
| 9 | Here he is sitting up in the marital bed , his jaw ruggedly clenched on his unlit pipe . |
| 10 | The priest , understandably , flees ; the wife tells her husband that he is running off with the partridges , with the result that the husband pursues the priest brandishing his knife , apparently confirming what the wife told the priest . |
| 11 | To that extent , he is going along with the orthodoxy , and not disturbing the papal infallibility of his predecessors and the process they have established . |
| 12 | increase in value added tax — but he is standing down at the general election . |
| 13 | He is coming over for a tour which culminates in the Edinburgh Festival , and he will be promoting both this and his third Easy Rawlins tale . |
| 14 | Technically he is excellent but you have noticed that he is falling down on the supervisory aspects of his job . |
| 15 | See if my husband wants a hand with these bits of wood he 's plonking up against the wall ! |
| 16 | Therefore if I move my hand down there , poor Ted , he 's shifting out of the way , God knows what he imagines I 'm going to do , there we are , rather stiff , but there she goes , I think . |
| 17 | ‘ He 's looking out of the window . |
| 18 | He 's dressing up as the Lincoln Imp ; the original imp is a carving in Lincoln cathedral . |
| 19 | We see how he 's shaping up to the ‘ new age ’ ahead , and offer some thoughts of our own . |
| 20 | So Steve took on the singer 's mantle , but how does he think he 's shaping up as a guitarist/vocalist ? |
| 21 | When he 's settling down for a sleep … |
| 22 | He 's bashing down from the campus . |
| 23 | He 's stopping off on the road , he 'll be in in the morning , I … ’ |
| 24 | he 's walking round like a lost soul |
| 25 | He 's got a little kid in one hand and he 's walking out of a burning building . |
| 26 | ‘ I must say , I admire the way he 's soldiering on with the course , ’ said Melissa . |
| 27 | He 's lying down on the floor having a nice lie down are n't you Toby ? |
| 28 | He goes out to work , that means he 's going round to the various houses and |
| 29 | He 's going on about the beach ! |
| 30 | Welll Cabinet 's are always under strain it 's in the nature of poltics , but I expect John Patten to be back at work within the course of this month , he 's just gone on holidasy when he returns he 's going back to the office . |