Example sentences of "he [be] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got the sack , cos he got up and left his job overslept and annoyed erm Rachael because she woke him up twice and said come on you 've got to go to work , he said alright then , she , she went back to bed thinking he 'd get up and of course he were still laying in bed , I woke him up at five to eleven , said come on you 're an hour late , but when he got down there they said no it 's no good you 've got the sack , and he said well it 's your own fault then cos you were woke up twice by Rachael at nine o'clock , he had n't , he could have got up and gone to work , just idle we met him twice , it really upset him |
| 2 | Three months after becoming prime minister , he is already putting in place a vast programme to privatise the state-owned businesses that have been a drag on the country since they were nationalised by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in the early 1970s . |
| 3 | ‘ He is completely lacking in sex appeal , ’ said Maya , of South West London . |
| 4 | He says he is now living in fear , having been told that an £80,000 contract has been taken out on his life . |
| 5 | He is now recovering at home in Barnard Castle after three operations and celebrated his 50th birthday on Monday . |
| 6 | He knows that he is only looking at ink on paper , yet his nervous system responds to it in the same kind of way as it might respond to a real woman . |
| 7 | He is currently resting at home in Las Vegas , before January 's Australian Open . |
| 8 | He is currently working on A-wing receiving new inmates … |
| 9 | He is always talking about style : he has yet words of the absurdest that occur in every page , bland , delicate , dainty ; one blushes to read them . ’ |
| 10 | No , but er I mean he 's even marrying into trouble . |
| 11 | He 's just recovering of course . |
| 12 | He 's probably counting on family connections to get you on the cheap ! |
| 13 | Pound may be right or wrong about the merits of Binyon 's version , as about the sorts of language that are acceptable in verse translation ; what is certain is that he 's here applying to diction a sort of sliding scale or set of variable standards such as Ford 's principles did n't allow for . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's currently appearing in hamburger medium-rare , salad , no fries and a glass of house red . |
| 15 | He 's now recovering at home . |
| 16 | He 's now recovering at home . |
| 17 | He 's now recovering at hospital in Oxford . |
| 18 | It 's alright he 's only playing with dog look . |
| 19 | That does n't mean he 's going to draw it , he 's actually drawing on average this guy around a thousand , hundred pounds , one thousand two hundred pounds he 's been thousand pounds , but he 's actually drawing one thousand two . |
| 20 | ‘ He 's better looking on TV … ’ |
| 21 | ‘ He 's obviously complaining of pain or discomfort , ’ Lindsey commented . |
| 22 | The record card for such a client was scribbled over with the comment of dealers : " He 's about to buy a house ; has no funds ; he 'll see how the shares he already has do ; he 's going in for Rolls Royce , so has no money ; he 's still waiting for share certificates — once these have arrived he will think about further investment . " |
| 23 | I do , I er , well I presume he 's still working in fact , with this er with the bank . |
| 24 | Because th th th th there , there 'd been statements from Mao until the end of nineteen forty five where he 's still talking about land to the tiller being some way off |
| 25 | And he 's still fighting for compensation from his former captors . |
| 26 | I mean he 's fairly lacking in confidence and whatever ? |
| 27 | Cowley picked up a photograph of a sombre looking man of about forty , his face registering all the discomfort he was probably feeling in wedding suit and stiff shirt . |
| 28 | In August he was again complaining of tiredness ; there was no doubt that like most other Englishmen he was experiencing what he described in another context as a general weariness of war and desire for peace . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm not going anywhere until I find out what happened , Joe , ’ she warned him , but he was already nodding in agreement . |
| 30 | By 1633 he was already moving in court circles . |