Example sentences of "he [be] [adv] [v-ing] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No wonder , he 's just bringing home the British Open champion . ’ |
| 2 | He said he 's just revving up the car engine . |
| 3 | and he 's now going up the point of the house but he ca n't get no further . |
| 4 | Abbot Mark says he 's definitely ruling out the use of his mitre and crozier while refereeing on the river . |
| 5 | She wanted to make some sarcastic retort about his being so bossy , but he was already clearing away the plates , not paying the slightest scrap of attention to her , and she realised that it was this lack of attention that really annoyed her . |
| 6 | He was already advancing up the truck as Ward slithered down onto the flat surface of it . |
| 7 | Ashley Booth , the hotel 's general manager , said : ‘ He was just stoking up the fire when it blew back on him and burned one of his hands . ’ |
| 8 | In part his object , especially in New York , was to recruit seamen from British ships into the union , a device which Joe Cotter , for one , regarded with admiration since as a result membership of the NSFU " went up by leaps and bounds " But he was also testing out the reaction of the men to the notion of an international strike , a theme he pursued at dozens of meetings in the United Kingdom in the following year , thirty such meetings being held in London alone . |
| 9 | The story is that the brave telegraphist continued to tap out messages and calls for help as the roaring fire closed in around his log cabin No 30 beside the railroad track , and he was still tapping out the Morse code for ‘ end of message — 30 — end of message — 30 … ’ as the burning log cabin collapsed around him . |