Example sentences of "he be [v-ing] it [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 2 | More likely he is using it in the more everyday usage of ‘ not sent or guided in any special direction ; having no definite aim or purpose ’ ( OED ) , which suggests that any such view of history must have no end , and therefore no teleology . |
| 3 | Although there are conflicting dicta it seems that an owner who is not in occupation of the land at the time when the thing escapes is liable if he has authorised the accumulation , and that anyone who collects the dangerous thing and has control of it at the time of the escape would be liable , perhaps even when he is carrying it along the highway and it escapes therefrom . |
| 4 | He is basing it on the book by Martha Zamora Frida , el pincel de la angustia . |
| 5 | However , if he happens also to run a business and sells one of the cars in circumstances suggesting that he is selling it in the course of that business , then he is likely to be regarded as doing just that , Southwark London Borough v. Charlesworth ( paragraph 9–20 above ) . |
| 6 | He 's taking it off the wrong has n't he ? |
| 7 | He 's taking it for the meeting tomorrow . |
| 8 | he 's getting it in the gones . |
| 9 | Darius is struggling to finish his , and he 's smearing it round the bowl so it looks like he 's ate it , and I say I ca n't eat any more because I got to stay sober tonight . |
| 10 | Yes , he , he 's doing it at the British Legion next time . |
| 11 | He 's doing it for the challenge . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
| 15 | Later I thought it through and decided a big part of it was that , although he was coining it from the teds , I think he felt he was seen — by his peers — as an artistic cretin . |
| 16 | He was holding it by the bridle a minute or two later . |
| 17 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with the great reluctance . |
| 18 | If he was still amusing himself , thought Cadfael , he was doing it with the eloquent dignity of archbishops and all the king 's judges . |
| 19 | He still held his own automatic in his left hand , and he was raising it towards the door as he backed off . |