Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said the thousands of get-well messages had been helping him recover from 17 days in a coma after a car crash . |
| 2 | you know what I mean , but the fact that I have been helping him has already conflicted and he has n't been in school a week , you know , and then eventually when they get those books out and he 'll say oh I know that one , that says Luke |
| 3 | I 've been helping him to find his feet a bit in Algiers . ’ |
| 4 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 5 | He seems to want the policemen who are pursuing him sacked ( for ‘ human-rights violations ’ against his hired killers ) , and a cast-iron pardon from the assembly . |
| 6 | The most upsetting thing was that it made her realise just how much she had been allowing him to guide her in the decision , putting her desire to leave the nurses ' home and her pleasure at Dr Entwistle 's recommendation very much in second place . |
| 7 | Notice how his long harness lines are enabling him to sail with straight arms thereby keeping the rig upright . |
| 8 | Terry Terry we 've been keeping him waiting on the line a long time good morning Terry . |
| 9 | All this time she had been imagining him pacing the terrace at Rocamar . |
| 10 | But some of Mr Major 's close colleagues are urging him to use his mandate to start with a ‘ clean sheet of paper ’ when constructing his Cabinet . |
| 11 | He was ever anxious about the weather and , when he could think of nothing else to be anxious about , he became worried that he must have forgotten something important that should have been causing him worry . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's quite small at the moment — he only takes size 5 ½ boots — but we 're expecting him to grow . |
| 13 | Now consider what you 're asking him to take care of . |
| 14 | You 're doing him harm , making him think he 's so wonderful . ’ |
| 15 | Look at this they 're dead in line they know what they 're doing he 's dummied the ball there Jochim 's rolled his his marker very very well . |
| 16 | ‘ I ca n't believe you 're letting him go . ’ |
| 17 | I 've got his statement and they 're letting him go . ’ |
| 18 | And they 're letting him keep linear . |
| 19 | ‘ If you keep trying to pretend he did n't exist , you 're letting him win . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're saying he has n't been in touch since he left this flat on Thursday ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ So the position is , ’ Maxim summed up , ‘ that they assume the dead man , Hochhauser , had some document or other , they assume Blagg picked it up , and now they 're assuming he gave it to me . ’ |
| 22 | They 're claiming he started it ? ’ |
| 23 | You are encouraging him , you 're making him feel he 's a great man with a message and it 's do or die . |
| 24 | Neighbour Stuart Partlett said : ‘ We 're hoping he gets the all-clear and shows them all by taking the gold . |
| 25 | You are teaching him to fear and hate you when you spank him . |
| 26 | I felt and slid my arms under Harry 's and with my feet slipping on the muddy bottom yanked him upwards as fiercely as I could and found him still stuck and yanked again twice more with increasing desperation until finally whatever had been holding him released its grasp and he came shooting to the surface , only to begin falling sluggishly back again as a dead weight . |
| 27 | The two guards who had been holding him released him and stood back . |
| 28 | She had been expecting him to call , though not quite so soon as this . |
| 29 | She picked up on the first ring , almost as though she had been expecting him to call . |
| 30 | I think you are asking him to worry about . |