Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] he [vb infin] " 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 ‘ I ca n't believe you 're letting him go . ’
3 I 've got his statement and they 're letting him go . ’
4 And they 're letting him keep linear .
5 ‘ If you keep trying to pretend he did n't exist , you 're letting him win .
6 You are encouraging him , you 're making him feel he 's a great man with a message and it 's do or die .
7 You are letting him talk far too much . ’
8 He has already made a long statement , and you are letting him get away with it .
9 They certainly should not have been letting him curl up on the floor next to Badger .
10 In the weeks that followed , he found that the food supplements seemed to be making him put on weight , which was slightly worrying .
11 I 'm making him cook better .
12 I 'm making him wish he never set eyes on me .
13 The fumes from the beer that had once been stored in the barrel were making him feel rather sick .
14 They were supporting him , they were making him look good , and the overall strategy seemed to be working .
15 Zednik is helping him overcome that .
16 It makes people wonder why he 's only had one season at top level , never been bought by a successful club , and why Kevin Keegan is letting him move on to Coventry now .
17 ‘ Because , ’ the Doctor answered , a little hoarse himself , ‘ the enhancer works both ways , and the Old One 's survival instinct is letting him draw on its excess life-force to try and bring it back into the world .
18 It is his sense of swelling sorrow that is making him burst out into his poem .
19 He said to Miriam , who was helping him dress the wounds of those hurt in the recent engagement : " The poor Collector has erysipelas .
20 He did not suspect whose money was helping him become a partner .
21 It was strange that she had never thought of him before , for she now remembered how quickly he had learnt poetry when she was helping him learn to read .
22 ‘ He 'll see I have n't let things slide , ’ he said to Carrie , when she was helping him put the shelves straight .
23 And they were , you know the stallion they was helping him put it .
24 For a while she even forgot why she was letting him make love to her in her surprise at the pleasure of it .
25 She was letting him go !
26 He could hardly believe that she was letting him go , that he was not to be punished for what he had witnessed in the best room in the middle of the night .
27 She had planned on being ultra-cool , whatever provocation he might throw at her , and yet at the first word here she was letting him get to her all over again !
28 An exuberant man , nervous , poetic , with a way of pulling his long fingers one by one when something was making him laugh to himself .
29 Coming out on to the landing he was horrified to find Eleanor mounting the stairs , this time wearing a thick tweed trouser suit with a scarf wrapped round her throat , presumably as some sort of protection against the peasouper outside which he knew , to his cost , had already infiltrated his lodgings and was making him cough .
30 Anger was making him sweat .
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