Example sentences of "he be [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Mike Harding has never been able to afford to buy one of his own clocks , now he 's making one as a retirement present to himself : a memento to a clock firm which could beat the Swiss — but could n't beat the recession . |
| 32 | That 's it : he 's infecting me with the bloodiness of his dreams . |
| 33 | He 's amusing himself at a dull time of year , and being here without his womenfolk , but he 's as adroit at calming the storm as he is at raising it . |
| 34 | No doubt he 's putting me to the test to see how good I 'll be at sorting it out . |
| 35 | He 's putting them on the side , like , I 'm asleep in bed , he goes this one 's for you . |
| 36 | He 's giving his to the pub . |
| 37 | I see , I mean it 's good to see really that er test match has been dom well almost dominated at the moment , by , by a slow bowler , it 's an ideal situation for in England , batsmen done their job , England are in command , got lots of runs to play with , but it 's definitely the left arm spinner who 's causing the , the greatest problem out there , he 's , he 's landing it in the right place , he likes variation in that over , confident enough looks very tempted , always very difficult to come in at first twenty minutes as a batsman , when you 've come in on a turning wicket , a very , very , difficult . |
| 38 | But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . " |
| 39 | Tufnell was still there to wheel away , but after his earlier successes , he was enduring something of a lean spell . |
| 40 | He was learning something of the dead man 's background , admittedly from a biased witness , but any policeman knows that all witnesses are biased in some degree . |
| 41 | After all Meredith was not alluding to her , any more than he was casting himself in the role of Caesar . |
| 42 | When she looked back at Petion , she saw that he was watching her with a sympathetic expression . |
| 43 | He was watching her with a glint of amusement in those remarkable eyes . |
| 44 | His voice was low , and she glanced up and saw that he was watching her with a strange kind of intensity . |
| 45 | With a puzzled lift of her head she found he was watching her with a faraway expression in his eyes . |
| 46 | He was watching her with a strange look on his face , half amusement , half something else , and she felt herself bristle . |
| 47 | That curious flicker was in his eyes again ; he was watching her with an intensity that was unnerving . |
| 48 | He was watching her like a cat with a mouse . |
| 49 | He paused , and Juliet felt he was watching her in the darkness . |
| 50 | The Feldwebel had not moved and I looked all the way up his black leather jack-boots and the thin grey greatcoat with its cheap tin buttons looking as if they had come out of a Christmas pudding before I noticed that his eyes were slightly open and that he was watching me with an uncle 's amusement . |
| 51 | As Woodroffe recounts , he was watching it from the opposite bank of the narrow stream and was so close that he was worried the vole would hear his receiver pulsing loudly . |
| 52 | ‘ He was feeding them to the tigers ! ! ’ |
| 53 | He was swinging her into the sailboat , then , with a broad grin , leaping in beside her . |
| 54 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
| 55 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
| 56 | As he was conducting them across the dozen or so yards , the Archimandrite appeared to touch Miss Fergusson 's elbow by way of courteous but strictly unnecessary guidance . |
| 57 | As to whether this was an historically accurate account of American development is beside the point , since he was using it as a debating point . |
| 58 | ‘ Perhaps he was using it as an office , ’ the agent suggested , kindly . |
| 59 | He was constructing something from a foil ash tray when she approached . |
| 60 | And then he was dragging her by the hands , racing across the lawn , nearly pulling her arm from its socket , crashing through the kitchen door , crying aloud so that it sounded like a whoop of triumph . |