Example sentences of "he [be] [v-ing] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dad started off in statesman-like fashion , as if he were addressing the United Nations , earnestly saying he 'd come to love Eva over the time he 'd known her and so on . |
| 2 | In any event the purchaser will want to know that he is buying the right assets from the right companies . |
| 3 | Keepers say he is making the right moves with five females at Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park near Chard , Somerset . |
| 4 | In short , one way of understanding Burgess is that he is describing the moral careers of immigrants ; some successfully adapting and eventually living in what they and respectable Chicago society saw as the ‘ front regions ’ of the desirable suburbs . |
| 5 | Therefore , he is treating the semi-final trials more as a tune-up . |
| 6 | August 1992 sees Tim setting off on a journey much nearer home and this time he 's inviting the wine-loving gourmets of Britain to join him . |
| 7 | No , but he 's criticizing the Conservative policies and all that , and what we will do is this . |
| 8 | He was experiencing the limited pleasures and drawbacks of early manhood . |
| 9 | Lloyd George might think that in beating Wilson over the space requirements of Asiatics in the debate over the Merchant Shipping Act in 1906 he was delivering the working classes from their unworthy prejudices against foreign seamen , but the seamen thought that they knew better . |
| 10 | He was watching the circling helicopters . |
| 11 | He was using the middle classes as a reference group ; aspiring to what he believed to be their values of ‘ honour ’ and ‘ duty ’ . |
| 12 | For the moment , anyway , he was using the old methods on the 7 December dummy . |
| 13 | He was wearing a ginger sports jacket , and he thrust a couple of ballpoints into the breast pocket . |
| 14 | He was wearing an Ultimate Climbers ' Helmet and you will be glad to know that although the helmet sustained considerable damage , Stuart had no head injuries . |
| 15 | He walked and walked , in fair and foul weather , pretending that he was training the young hounds to stay at heel ; and did so . |
| 16 | Tammuz managed to catch Roirbak just as he was making the finishing touches to his evening regalia : black , matt silk suit with thread-wide yellow pinstripe , understated gold adornments , I-Ching earrings . |
| 17 | He had to wait a quarter of an hour , but six or seven minutes after that he was climbing the weedy steps to the quay on the other side . |
| 18 | He was tying the fragile stems to canes for extra support as the plants grew tall . |
| 19 | The day that Seb Coe was a guest , he was opening a spinal injuries unit in a hospital in Birmingham . |
| 20 | He told me ( and I believe him ) that he was recalling the dry cadences of a famous essay by the great economist . |
| 21 | They said he was disturbing the other pupils . |