Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [be] [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | My brother-in-law is making her manageress of the London salon he 's opening in the autumn . |
| 2 | There is some fella he 's working in his back yard and he 's hammering all day , I I wish he 'd give it up . |
| 3 | And I did and to be quite honest , I mean it was n't the money really when you think about it because at end of day , forty six pound he were spending in pub anyway . |
| 4 | Now in his eighties but cracklingly alert , he is happy alike to talk about his view of Hamlet and his literary friends in the town , the work he was doing in the church , the essays he was writing : there is an irresistible donnish delight in his manner and calmness , the repose of the greatly confident — a quality which was later attributed to Richard . |
| 5 | It is also important that the teacher is quite familiar with the electronic equipment he is using in order to get the best results from his efforts . |
| 6 | On the evidence of his recital he is increasing in assurance and beginning to fulfil expectations . |
| 7 | At the moment he 's living in one of brother Sidney 's caravans . ’ |
| 8 | and at the moment he 's living in a hostel where , I do n't know too much about it , where you have clean sheets put on for them |
| 9 | At the moment he was sitting in Mr Fry 's big armchair with the shelves full of nick-nacks behind him . |
| 10 | Erm but the most unfortunate thing that Old Edward the the old chap who owned the place he was living in part of the house and Old Jane , his housekeeper , my mother she could bake bread and wash , her mother had taught her that , but it was making butter that was the problem . |
| 11 | I said to Rob it 's a good job he 's coming in daylight or we 'll ! |
| 12 | A EURO Disney hotel cashier was stabbed to death and robbed of cash he was putting in a safe at the Paris fun park yesterday . |
| 13 | It 's a big carrot he 's dangling in front of Marler 's nose . |
| 14 | The twins , Sandy and Dennys , home from law and medical schools , were eager to hear about Calvin … and the conference he was attending in London , where he was … giving a paper on the immunological system of chordates . |
| 15 | he said it 's like a spring like day he 's saying in the South East |
| 16 | By the end of the decade he was living in a new house built within the precinct . |
| 17 | This week he is skiing in a downhill competition in Deer Valley , Utah . |
| 18 | Last year he had played in the pro-am with the Open Champion and Terry Wogan , and they should have won it , and next week he was playing in California with Trevino . |
| 19 | At the time of the murders in the Shrine of Asuryan he was hunting in Chrace with his old friend Koradrel of Chrace . |
| 20 | He did that to get publicity , cos in fact they found that it was n't eh , rubbish he was selling in there . |
| 21 | But the two-thirds society he is creating in Spain , and which is now , with variations , the European model , is far from the last word . |
| 22 | Jones seems to have found elements of the trend of thought he is pursuing in modern Western culture , for example in Owen Barfield , Loren Eiseley , Michael Polanyi and Peter Ouspensky . |
| 23 | Probably under Archbishop Edmund [ q.v. ] he was promoted to the Canterbury peculiar of Harrow , the chancel of whose church he was repairing in 1242 . |
| 24 | especially as Paul 's making us fairly unpopular with all this , the success he 's having in lobbying . |
| 25 | I drew him that , I gave him one of those [ pointing to the jumper he is wearing in the picture ] . |
| 26 | He swung the metal bucket he was carrying in an arc and crashed it against a wall and he stood shaking with horror at himself . |
| 27 | Barth suggests that in pointing to the delusional nature of ideology he is indulging in an idolatry of science characteristic of his time but equally delusional ( Barth 1977 : 110 ) . |
| 28 | Well , we had n't been wondering at all , we 'd come straight along the corridor , but of course he was speaking in a wider sense . |
| 29 | But by late afternoon he was waiting in the exercise yard as the tall , rather lean shape of Ned Turner stepped out to join him . |
| 30 | In The Form he says that the lower part of the contemplative life is : This is consistent with his account of his own quickened consciousness in The Fire of Love when he says that prior to his feeling of calor he was sitting in a chapel " delighting in the sweetness of prayer and meditation " and in his experience of canor " my thinking itself turned into melodious song , and my meditation became a poem , and my very prayers and psalms took up the same sound " ( 15.93 ) . |