Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] he [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | His disappointment at missing out added to the way the illness was making him feel . |
| 32 | He quite liked the feeling it gave him , but he did n't know if it was it or the drink was making him feel rather dizzy . |
| 33 | It was making him feel emotions that he did n't want to have again . |
| 34 | Matron thought the shock was making him talk gibberish but Endill understood what he was trying to say . |
| 35 | The two control sample carers ( Mrs Mitchell 's daughter and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew ) were both still quite definite about wanting to see their relative in institutional care ; Mrs Mitchell 's daughter said that she was becoming more and more anxious about her mother being at risk at home ; and Mrs Wilkins ' nephew saying that she was more than ever in need of care , and the strain upon him of having to cope with her difficult personality was making him wish even more acutely for institutional care . |
| 36 | The cold was making him shiver . |
| 37 | Wexford thought irritably , and he thought also of his own daughter who was making him scrape the bottom of his pocket so that at some future possible never-never time she might be able to smile without restraint before the cameras . |
| 38 | Matthew could see that anxiety was making him sound angry and bullying , qualities which Cindy Hill , in her current distressed state , was bound to find threatening . |