Example sentences of "he [be] [v-ing] in [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There were pilots getting their aircraft away on two engines , with armourers hanging on underneath checking the bombs , incendiaries blazing and HE S exploding in all directions .
2 ‘ Christ , should he be coming in that fast ? ’
3 After all , when you have laboured in the engine room for several years and are then suddenly confronted by some of the highest honours the sport can confer it is understandable that a player might believe he is living in another world .
4 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 .
5 If anyone shows deep concern that he is doubting in this way , it is a sure sign that he is not .
6 I would have preferred this afternoon but it seems he is riding in three races at Wincanton . ’
7 Jim Knox , an Oldham director , says that the club have fulfilled their financial obligations to Round and do not know why he is behaving in this way .
8 LOOKING like he is appearing in some designer-conscious jeans advert , Nicholas Cage steps out of a big white gas guzzler on a sun-baked road in Wyoming .
9 A self-confessed alcoholic , equally at home on stage and screen , he is starring in two top box office films .
10 I would not venture to say which he is doing in this case . ’
11 In another story , Frank tries his luck as a gas repair-man and , while he is working in one house , there is an enormous explosion and the doors and windows blow out .
12 It seems he is indulging in some extra physio with the little darling who runs on with the sponge for Frampton .
13 By analysing the products he is selling in this way , a salesman will communicate in terms which are meaningful to buyers and therefore be more convincing .
14 He is continuing in this capacity for Kent during 1992 .
15 Okay , Skinner talks about scientific explanation in that , so that 's what he 's addressing in that particular paper .
16 He weighs more than Joe Frazier but in these days of the super tanker heavyweights like Bowe and Lennox Lewis , he 's lacking in competitive firepower , even if his heart is totally disproportionate to his size .
17 I expect he 's resting in another part of the library .
18 At the moment he 's living in one of brother Sidney 's caravans . ’
19 But I I th I think what we 're talking about is the fact th that Ma you know he 's writing in nineteen twenty seven , that , that he 's not quite sure about the means to an end , he 's sort of writing he , you know , it 's , in a way it 's like writing an essay
20 You may well be better off without him instead of living in limbo , not knowing what he 's thinking or why he 's acting in this way .
21 I want to know how he 's doing in general and where he needs a bit of encouragement .
22 This is the moment when it comes into his mind to ask himself what he 's doing in this place ; to see the meaninglessness of his business there , and the hollowness of his enjoyments ; to lose sight suddenly of what it is in the texture of life that has ever occupied his attention and led him forward .
23 He 's lying in poor water , a yard or so depth of poor safety ,
24 He returned from a cold and rainy holiday in Switzerland to find himself faced with a mountain of correspondence and other business ( he was receiving in this period something like fifty letters a day , although most of them were handled by Valerie Fletcher ) .
25 ‘ It is a measure of the level of the people with which he was dealing in that , at a time when he thought he might be a witness in another case , he was assaulted , rendering him unconscious , and his house was the subject of an arson attack . ’
26 He was living in one of the old stone huts on the moor .
27 He was living in Long Island .
28 In the 1980s he was living in comfortable retirement in a suburb of Buenos Aires , still convinced that his experiment worked .
29 Thirdly , it is often impossible to tell from the inventory whether a person was poor or whether he was living in comfortable retirement , having already passed on most of his estate to his children ; a yeoman with very few possessions is likely to have been in the latter category .
30 Here again I can quote Graham Greene , though he was writing in this instance about the thriller , which is outside the scope of this book .
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