Example sentences of "he [verb] [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so that 's done some work on that , and there 's now four models for training , one is the , you know , on the job , evenings , training , there 's the weekend model of getting people together for the weekend , there 's the sort of summer school idea and the other one 's the one that Doug keeps reminding me about , which I keep forgetting about which is the distance learning one , er we , I think this is the one he thinks is running in Dundee , that maybe help with because the idea of developing a pack which is kind of trainer proof |
| 2 | The basic problem he encountered was getting across why his own complete immaterialism was not itself more overtly and explicitly sceptical than the standard view that there exist both material bodies and incorporeal minds or spirits . |
| 3 | It is clear that he has been speaking for some time . |
| 4 | He has been trying for three years and he said today : ‘ Maybe it is because , God knows , I 've had some leg problems and I just can not climb those steps that easily , ’ he joked . |
| 5 | He has been living in a succession of ANC havens . |
| 6 | For much of the last couple of decades , he has been living in France , where he is accorded a reverence denied him in his native country . |
| 7 | But that belonged to a white person who was , who could speak Punjabi very well , I think he wa he has been living in India for some time . |
| 8 | He has been living in Thailand , has a Thai wife and speaks Thai . |
| 9 | But I 'm happy with my decision to rest him because he has been competing since January , and Ever is an improving horse . ’ |
| 10 | He has been competing on wheels for some 28 years . |
| 11 | The thing is , he has been using for such a long time . |
| 12 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 13 | He has been looking for pollen , the other standby of people who study ancient plants . |
| 14 | He has been looking into the possibility of a career outside cricket as a pilot because of further problems with his back . |
| 15 | He has been looking after it since Tuesday morning . |
| 16 | He has been plotting since his arrival in Scotland . |
| 17 | He has been wandering about Wales , giving a spending pledge here and a spending pledge there . |
| 18 | The day , the expenditure of emotion — the oyster knife he has been inserting into these women 's lives — have tired him . |
| 19 | With help from master decorator Renzo Mongiardino , who is known to have helped him in the past , Ortiz-Patiño should have little trouble showing off the rare editions , manuscripts and fine bindings first collected by his father ; his own Dutch and Spanish Old Master paintings ; English silver by Paul de Lamerie and the gold snuff boxes he has been collecting since 1956 . |
| 20 | He has been stonewalling throughout the whole month since Lamb told the world , through the Daily Mirror , how the Pakistanis scuff and scrape and scoop at an old ball until it swings as though it was factory fresh . |
| 21 | He has been toying with various possibilities ( we suggested he could come to us & repeat the year at Oban High — a somewhat unlikely proposition , I admit ) but seems likely to plump for a 4-year course at Birmingham , leading to a BSc in Computer Engineering . |
| 22 | The news comes the day before Johan Egelstedt , 19 , leaves the family he has been staying with in Leicester to return to Sweden and resume his education . |
| 23 | Adopted just five weeks ago ‘ I 'd tried for other seats but had n't got anywhere ’ he has been staying in Northallerton with Jim Stafford , the cheery and down to earth constituency agent . |
| 24 | He has been writing for some time , starting with horror , and has more recently turned to the psychological thriller . |
| 25 | Looking at the sorts of things that Paul writes about as well , you 'll see that there is a change in material ; up to now , he has been writing about Christian doctrine . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , he has been caddying for Harley in Europe , and he did win one tournament and finished equal second in the other . |
| 27 | It was his first medal in the competition , which he has been entering for five years — his previous best placing was ninth in 1990 . |
| 28 | His latest play , David Henry Hwang 's M. Butterfly , which began its national tour in Bath this week , attracted him because it deals with the questions of sexual roles and masculine/feminine identity which he has been exploring through his men 's group for the past 18 months . |
| 29 | ‘ He has been calling for a … ’ he glanced importantly at his notebook ‘ … |
| 30 | He has been swimming in a pool somewhere , I said to myself . |