Example sentences of "he be [v-ing] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Christ , should he be coming in that fast ? ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If anyone shows deep concern that he is doubting in this way , it is a sure sign that he is not . |
| 5 | I would have preferred this afternoon but it seems he is riding in three races at Wincanton . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A self-confessed alcoholic , equally at home on stage and screen , he is starring in two top box office films . |
| 9 | I would not venture to say which he is doing in this case . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It seems he is indulging in some extra physio with the little darling who runs on with the sponge for Frampton . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He is continuing in this capacity for Kent during 1992 . |
| 14 | Okay , Skinner talks about scientific explanation in that , so that 's what he 's addressing in that particular paper . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I expect he 's resting in another part of the library . |
| 17 | At the moment he 's living in one of brother Sidney 's caravans . ’ |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I want to know how he 's doing in general and where he needs a bit of encouragement . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He 's lying in poor water , a yard or so depth of poor safety , |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 25 | He was living in one of the old stone huts on the moor . |
| 26 | He was living in Long Island . |
| 27 | In the 1980s he was living in comfortable retirement in a suburb of Buenos Aires , still convinced that his experiment worked . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | As Smith ( ibid. ) indicates , the cost of one scholarship ( when he was writing in 1978 ) was about £30,000 and by the late 1980s this had risen to well over £100,000 . |