Example sentences of "he is [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man who advertised for a woman to live on a desert island with him is looking for another female travelling companion to repeat the trip . |
| 2 | Waugh himself ca n't be blamed for the wrenching out of a context that might have helped us to understand whether he is referring to unhappy women , rendered so by not being content with their lot , or men , who are now being forced to lend a hand with the Hoover . |
| 3 | ‘ Everything 's more difficult these days , ’ grumbles a bed-ridden pensioner in a Chilean film ; and although , as it happens , he is referring to that day 's crossword , the comment itself speaks volumes . |
| 4 | Perhaps he is referring to some figures that were leaked a couple of weeks ago from the Industrial Development Board for Northern Ireland — a reference to 44 inward investment jobs . |
| 5 | In these circumstances it is sufficient for the broker to disclose to the customer that he is acting as principal , provided that he does not charge commission . |
| 6 | Spasticity can also cause pain anywhere in the hemiplegic side : the pain may occur when associated reactions happen , for instance when the patient is asleep , or when he is moving without proper control . |
| 7 | What Stephen says and what Stephen thinks begin to merge because the punctuation mark that indicates ‘ now my character speaks ’ is missing.Joyce does use the dash , however , to show that he is moving from descriptive narrative to direct expression . |
| 8 | He is looking for that quality which you must allow me to call ‘ modernity ’ ; for I know of no better word to express the idea I have in mind . |
| 9 | Following the completion of the acquisition of Framlington 's private client fund management business in January and the recruitment of five new investment managers in Liverpool , he is looking for increased investment revenues in this year . |
| 10 | Their daughter , Shelagh , has moved to Belfast where she has a job in an office but her younger brother , Sean helps here and there on the farm while he is looking for some other work , sadly without too much hope , since there is already much unemployment in the towns . |
| 11 | He is looking for any ambiguous opportunity to take his gun and do the worst . |
| 12 | Will the right hon. Gentleman say what support he is receiving from other G7 countries for his recent endorsement of a rouble stabilisation fund ? |
| 13 | Bill Walker , MP for Tayside North , said : ‘ He is living on borrowed time . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He is a way of Eddie explaining clearly to the reader what his views are on Rodolpho 's sexuality for instance without the subtleness of when he is conversing with another character . |
| 16 | Part of the time he may almost be unaware that he is speaking to another person — after all Gila does n't understand English very well and it is unlikely that she would fully understand the references to Rupert Brooke and the poem ‘ The Old Vicarage , Grantchester ’ . |
| 17 | Still , he feels that the waiters know that he comes from Dearborn and they can see that in his cashmere tweed jacket he is sailing under false colours . |
| 18 | He is calling for good conditions for traders at the new pitches in Tarleton Street , Williamson Square and Paradise Street . |
| 19 | He is calling for more funds to reduce waiting lists . |
| 20 | Then , after people have had their own ten seconds of breathlessness , they remember that he is competing against those mysterious , those hideously capable Americans for an Olympic gold medal , and , oh , they suddenly say , would n't it be lovely if he won ? |
| 21 | O'Leary is in the second year of a leisure management course at West London Institute where he says he is adjusting to minor celebrity status . |
| 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 | For the former , he is dealing with 13 lots of discussions ( including Scotland ) , although the contracts for some plants have a further year to run . |
| 24 | It is sometimes argued that an experienced programmer can detect the ‘ general shape ’ of a particular high-level language X from blocks of machine code , just by hunch and judgement , but this ignores the possibility that the code may have been written in language Y with the syntactic style of X precisely in order to create this confusion ; just as one can murmur English with a German intonation and cause a distant listener to believe he is listening to unintelligible German . |
| 25 | ‘ He is searching for another refugee . |
| 26 | He is staying with Christian friends during term-time , where he is being really loved and cared for by them . |
| 27 | Murphy , who was 39 last week , recently announced that he was making his original partner , Helen Cree , managing director , although he is staying as executive chairman to concentrate on growing the business , particularly in the financial sector , and improving quality . |
| 28 | There is even the possibility that the knowledge evoked here may have been obtained indirectly , through some other channel than direct experience , as a speaker could utter any of the above four sentences without ever having observed what he is asserting at all . |
| 29 | He is sticking to this view . |
| 30 | If anyone shows deep concern that he is doubting in this way , it is a sure sign that he is not . |