Example sentences of "the [noun pl] he [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I did not even complain to the British Medical Association — as I was in law entitled so to do — about the gross impertinence of a certain toothy and incompetent doctor in this very borough who imagined in his stupidity that I was incapable of reading upside-down the notes he was making on the other side of a desk at which I was once unwise enough to sit . |
| 3 | That Henry was now thinking of Richard 's keeping his duchy is suggested by the plans he was making to install John as King of Ireland , but what price would the Old King demand in return for this concession ? |
| 4 | In Edie 's company Minton had drinks with H. E. Bates in 1949 , at his home at Great Chart , in connection with the illustrations he was designing for Bates 's The Country Heart , a revised compilation of his two previous books , O More than Happy Countryman and The Heart of the Country . |
| 5 | yeah , you 're blowing apart as well because we are n't servicing our part of the partnership , cos it 's not only just talking about the projects he 's bringing in an and getting him involved with projects like that . |
| 6 | Hughes cites Speak as a model for those yet to get their chance in the game , insisting : ‘ The rewards he is getting now are richly deserved . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I mean , we 've , I 've , there was a situation these are the roads he 's taking me around now , he had me reverse round the corner which was practically blind , could n't see what was round the corner , so I was edging round , and it was on a hill so I had to do it , every time I stopped I had to put the handbrake on so I did n't roll |
| 9 | The fingers he was scratching under his arm with were crossed . |
| 10 | Yeah , but the trips he 's using are big . |
| 11 | Her nerves jolted and she was shocked by the intensity of her response to the signals he was sending . |
| 12 | In this particular drawing the forecaster has assumed that the future is going to be almost the same as the present ( at least in the characteristics he is depicting ) . |
| 13 | As he turned to return down the steps he was thinking of Carrie once more and not taking care where he was stepping . |
| 14 | They would have caught the pictures he was using . |
| 15 | Even the pods he was giving to the pigs , he would have liked to have eaten himself . |
| 16 | The songs he was writing were very death-oriented . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The words he was using were n't English . |
| 21 | At times he was clearly not too pleased with the words he was reading out . |
| 22 | Like many another driver , Jackie had clearly contemplated the risks he was taking ; he had had several severe accidents , so he knew what was involved ; he knew the odds . |
| 23 | His eyes were bright with determination , his face flushed with a sense of the risks he was taking , and the still born smile twitched away at the comer of his mouth as though he was trying to eat his beard . |
| 24 | Vince had reluctantly admitted his part in it , but had tried to appear nonchalant about the risks he was taking . |
| 25 | He said he tried previously to warn MacQuillan of the risks he was running . |
| 26 | 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 ] . |
| 27 | DFC agreed to supply RMG with a list of the visitors he was expecting . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Counsel will use deferential language in court , particularly in respect of a decision that he submits was mistaken ; the worse the error , the deeper will be the respect that he expresses for the judges he is criticising . |
| 30 | The police have declined to comment , but in a brief statement Mr Girven said he was conducting an inquiry to ensure that officers in the force have behaved correctly , and that in the circumstances he was seeking an independent investigator from another force to undertake it . |