Example sentences of "[conj] he be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robbie Gladwell has opened a new guitar workshop in Sudbury , Suffolk , where he is undertaking all nature of electric and acoustic guitar repairs ; plus setups for that ‘ problem ’ guitar , customising and custom building , etc . |
| 2 | And every day Berkowitz , 45 , was brought to court from Wandsworth prison , where he is serving three years for such an offence . |
| 3 | He later admitted he had provided an affidavit for Clarke , who escaped from the Maze prison where he was serving 18 years for the attempted murder of a member of the Ulster Defence Regiment . |
| 4 | Nick Moore first wrote to me from Ashwell prison , Leics , in January , where he was serving seven years — for building society robberies in Derby . |
| 5 | It took him seven long and difficult years to find out where he was going wrong . |
| 6 | Either that or he is doing this with deliberate skill to gain her confidence . ’ |
| 7 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 8 | If you like him , or he was doing other |
| 9 | ( There is a record of a complaint by an inmate of a workhouse elsewhere , that although he was paying six shillings a week for his maintenance , he had to do work such as window-cleaning and blacking grates . |
| 10 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 11 | Er so er let's say that the ten percent rate applies , er mind you ten percent is a long way from where we are now , but it makes the figures easy to look at , so er let's say that he 's getting ten percent gross on his return on a building society , he 'd actually get seven and a half percent net , er so on his ten thousand he 's going to earn seven fifty . |
| 12 | His big thing at the moment does n't seem to be women but some ruined castle down in Berkshire that he 's getting restored . ’ |
| 13 | And h let him realize that he 's remembering these , and it 's easier than looking it up every time . |
| 14 | JELLO BIAFRA has announced that he 's considering issuing BODY COUNT 's ‘ Cop Killer ’ on his own Alternative Tentacles label . |
| 15 | It appears that he 's reading some scripts and … ’ |
| 16 | mind you , not that he 's giving any secrets away , it 's been |
| 17 | As Bryan points out , this has a lot to do with the fact that he 's doing two jobs … |
| 18 | ought to do is to eat the things that he 's saying that nobody wants . |
| 19 | Bill is ministering to master and mistress and the house-guests , sick as a toad that he 's missing all the fun . |
| 20 | In other situations , however , PH 's pattern of responding makes it clear that he is recognizing familiar faces at an unconscious level . |
| 21 | He revealed to ACCOUNTANCY that he is getting extra discounts of around 10% from the six major publishers that are now involved . |
| 22 | Ted Hill , the Labour Party agent , has told the Enfield Advertiser that he is taking legal advice about this . |
| 23 | The speculator knows that he is taking risky decisions . |
| 24 | Without going into whether the information would come from his audit file or the client 's file , the Institute has a stated policy that it will not put pressure on the incumbent auditor/adviser to supply information to a successor while fees remain outstanding — though the incumbent should be prepared to demonstrate that he is taking active steps to collect the outstanding fee including , if necessary , a writ or summons . |
| 25 | That he is exposing all . |
| 26 | Even though the defendant does not regard the nature of his own conduct as being disorderly , he has a sufficient mens rea to satisfy the section by being aware that he is using offensive language , or kicking over dustbins or turning out the lights in the cinema , or whatever else may be alleged to constitute the disorderly behaviour . |
| 27 | We must distinguish the belief that a speaker has about the words he is using from the belief that he is using those words to express . |
| 28 | The likely explanation is that he is feeling contemplative , a little introspective , and he wants a quiet evening at home without the sort of chit-chat that might drown out the TV football commentary . |
| 29 | For instance , the standard of merchantable quality of secondhand or shop-soiled goods is clearly less than of brand new goods , and a vendor who spells out that he is selling secondhand or shop-soiled goods is still warranting conformance with description , but it is a different description from the one he would have applied to brand new goods . |
| 30 | STOP PRESS Eric has today announced that he is joining Icelandic Second Division side Fram Reykjavik . |