Example sentences of "he [be] [adv] [v-ing] in [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 's currently appearing in hamburger medium-rare , salad , no fries and a glass of house red . |
| 6 | I do , I er , well I presume he 's still working in fact , with this er with the bank . |
| 7 | I mean he 's fairly lacking in confidence and whatever ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm not going anywhere until I find out what happened , Joe , ’ she warned him , but he was already nodding in agreement . |
| 10 | By 1633 he was already moving in court circles . |
| 11 | I looked at him , surprised at his quick recovery , but then I saw he had n't really recovered , he was just pretending in order not to hurt me . |
| 12 | He was just staring in disbelief . |
| 13 | She wrote an article about evangelical Christianity , in which she complained bitterly about a particular writer , a Doctor Cumming , who she said was not merely intellectually dishonest in attempting , by slipper means , to reconcile traditional Christian belief with certain new kinds of discovery in archaeology and so on , but he was also lacking in charity and the way which he hammered everybody who did n't subscribe to his particular form of religious believe did n't seem to her to be anything to do with the true spirit of Christianity , so she was discontented with that form of Victorian religion . |
| 14 | He was so lacking in compassion , in basic humanity . |
| 15 | But he was now acting in defence of the properties of Canterbury , a matter for which he alone was responsible . |
| 16 | He was still cursing in French and English . |