Example sentences of "[noun pl] he be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Every club years ago had a tough-tackling defender in their side but they did n't resort to the tactics he is talking about . |
| 2 | He was searching for a complete lyricist who could add flavour to songs he was intending to be covered by bigger artists . |
| 3 | He guessed that these effects might be due to intoxication by one of the compounds he was working with , and confirmed his idea by deliberate experiment . |
| 4 | As he turned to return down the steps he was thinking of Carrie once more and not taking care where he was stepping . |
| 5 | With glazed eyes he was staring into the middle distance . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In fact no one knows where it is registered — except of course Noel Smyth and whatever parties he is fronting for . |
| 8 | Even the pods he was giving to the pigs , he would have liked to have eaten himself . |
| 9 | He continually told his parents he was going to be famous but , like legions of other parents before them , they treated his claims with contempt . |
| 10 | Working from these , and with microorganisms he is culturing in his laboratory to metabolise related compounds from the chlorodioxin group , Chakrabarty is seeking a single culture that can degrade 2,4,5-T to the point where heavily contaminated soil can be returned in a matter of days to healthy soil that can support plant life . |
| 11 | Sect leader David Koresh , who claims he is Jesus Christ , has told negotiators he is waiting for a ‘ message from God ’ before deciding what to do next . |
| 12 | First , there is his attitude towards the texts he is writing about : because writing can never be governed by the intention and avowed aims of its authors , Derrida finds himself saying of Rousseau , for example , that what he actually writes is quite different from what he means to say : that he is bound , as we all are , to say ‘ more , less or something quite other than what he would mean/would like to say [ voudrait dire ] ’ ( 1976 : 158 ] . |
| 13 | Keener feels that his lack of technical background is a distinct advantage ; it also means that he sets a large amount of trust in the engineers he is working with . |
| 14 | I only once went into his garden , a beautifully kept one , even in war-time , when he kindly picked a bunch of tulips for me and showed me some new potatoes he was growing in pots in the greenhouse . |
| 15 | Auntie May , though , said there 's only a quartet , and after he 's done some solo pieces he 's playing with them . |
| 16 | ‘ For the next few days he is going to be a bit sore . |
| 17 | Two days he was hanging around the place . |
| 18 | Coleridge and Sara began their married life more conventionally , and within a few days he was writing in enraptured terms to Tom Poole from their ‘ comfortable Cot ’ in Clevedon : ‘ the prospect around us is perhaps more various than any in the kingdom — Mine Eye gluttonizes. — The Sea — the distant Islands ! the opposite Coasts ! — I shall assuredly write Rhymes — let the nine Muses prevent it , if they can . ’ |
| 19 | But Henry was more concerned about the political repercussions of the advances he was making on the Continent than about the troubles of the church of Canterbury . |
| 20 | Edward 's trouble was that the tell-tales he was looking for , the subtle marks of treachery , were the main — and open — subject of the conversation . |
| 21 | She became very busy with the packages he was stacking on the jetty . |
| 22 | and he was n't gon na go football tomorrow but he 's got ta go cos if he do n't go he 's letting the team go because things he was saying to my mother last week , well you would n't believe it . |
| 23 | She found his sophistication so overwhelming that she needed a space in order to assimilate all the things he was introducing into her life . |
| 24 | Yeah now that 's , that 's probably worth mentioning to Dave because I think one of the things he was talking about doing was instead of one of the tests or something making people hand in either some sort of lab book or some sort of record of the practical so far this term erm |
| 25 | I 'd 've loved to have been that pillow , I really would er things he was doing to this pillow it was |
| 26 | And since , unlike many wives of city moguls , she 'd had recent experience at the sharp end of business in the City of London , she understood , only too clearly , the problems he was facing at the present time . |
| 27 | That 's six million pounds he 's getting for a year ! ’ |
| 28 | John was out of his mind , running up and down the corridor , telling total strangers he was going to Disneyland . |
| 29 | Nevertheless there was no differentiation in the shop between the fire and other goods he was selling in his secondary line of business . |
| 30 | Ken persuaded him to cut the portions he was making for Orton and himself into three . |