Example sentences of "[verb] he [be] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And do you know he 's getting all |
| 2 | Do he know he 's having that ? |
| 3 | Local reports suggest he was carrying 20 cases of cigarettes from Gibraltar to Spanish territory where they can fetch 3 times the price . |
| 4 | As he followed her from the room , he said , ‘ Has he been using any new chemicals ? ’ |
| 5 | Charles found he was watching much of the play as if seeing it for the first time . |
| 6 | The King and his politicians were usually on good enough terms to avoid these extreme steps but as the decades passed the King found he was sharing more of his power with Parliament . |
| 7 | Adam found he was holding both hands clamped over his mouth . |
| 8 | Jeremy : He found he was going colour-blind and cross-eyed so he tried to — |
| 9 | What are we going I mean we we 've heard also I 'm changing the subject now because that was the the sort of political answer I 'd expect and er I suppose until I get somebody else come on and say he 's talking absolute whatever er I mean I think it is down to the people who live and work with the school . |
| 10 | ‘ They say he 's doing fine . ’ |
| 11 | She says he 's getting better and starting to eat well . |
| 12 | She says he 's getting better and starting to eat well . |
| 13 | At 36 he says he 's getting old for this very energetic sport . |
| 14 | Now his father says he 's taking legal action against the hospital . |
| 15 | Nicholas Brown says he 's facing trumped-up charges , and claims that local police planted cannabis on him , expecting a bribe . |
| 16 | A divorced father says he 's facing financial ruin after his maintenance payments for his children were increased from five pence a year to almost three and a half thousand pounds a year . |
| 17 | He says he 's feeling better but he has to go back to the hospice . |
| 18 | The club 's chairman says he 's doing all in his power to persuade him to stay on . |
| 19 | He says he 's going numb already . |
| 20 | He 's called the house a couple of times and he says he 's coming this way . |
| 21 | Watson says he is planning more acquisitions this year , probably in France and Germany . |
| 22 | Paul says he was getting desperate . |
| 23 | listen he 's playing happy birthday . |
| 24 | Mr Palmer did n't feel he was playing good enough at that time , so he told Tony Lema about me . |
| 25 | VETERAN actor Sir John Mills has revealed he is going blind . |
| 26 | Tests show he 's carrying ten times the acceptable level of mercury . |
| 27 | When last seen he was wearing blue jeans , a cream sweatshirt , blue padded jacket and black shoes . |
| 28 | He jabbered away to his friends , and Ellie assumed he was explaining that item number one was a drink . |
| 29 | Mum look he 's jumping all |
| 30 | In the novel I can believe he is saying such things , perhaps because I am hearing his voice in my head , in the privacy of my own mind ( I am thinking him ) and I am extremely relieved to hear him say them because his words bring to an end a certain kind of conflict between himself and Connie . |