Example sentences of "he [be] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His head had an odd tilt or cock to it , set on the shoulders as if he were looking up from the bars of a drop-handled bike . |
| 2 | Yeah and he were coming out with eleven |
| 3 | It was as if he were shitting out of every pore . ’ |
| 4 | The moon was shining full on his face — it seemed as if he were staring up at it . |
| 5 | It was as though he were making up for inadequacies of which he was aware but which he tried to pretend were not there . |
| 6 | He took a briefcase with him , as if he were going back to the Works . |
| 7 | For example , in Littlewoods Organisation Ltd v Harris [ 1978 ] 1 All ER 1026 Megaw LJ said : … it is appropriate that a covenant , restricting an employee from full freedom of taking other employment when he leaves his existing employment , should be included in the contract of employment where there is a real danger that the employee will in the course of that employment have access to and gain information about matters which could fairly be regarded as trade secrets ; and that applies even though the information may be carried in his head and even though ( perhaps , particularly though ) it may be extremely difficult for the employee himself , being an honest and scrupulous man , to realise that what he is passing on to his new employers is matter which ought to be treated as confidential to his old employers . |
| 8 | This weekend , buoyed by the growing Liberal Democrat support and the trend to a hung Parliament in the most recent opinion polls , he is moving on to the next stage : cranking up the case for a coalition . |
| 9 | He is moving back towards the bad practice of selective tax shelters , which Mr Lawson had undermined in his five years as chancellor . |
| 10 | His bust , crowned with fresh bay leaves , presides at the side of the stage , and if he is looking down from Valhalla , let us hope he is pleased to be proved wrong . |
| 11 | Finally , he is looking out for support material for Christian detached youth workers . |
| 12 | So it 's wrong to read anything into the failure of Peter Mandelson to be given a room — although the fact that he is dossing down in Tony Blair 's office is surely evidence of his continuing influence with the Bright Young Things of the shadow cabinet . |
| 13 | Now he is messing around with education , and look at the mess that that will be in . |
| 14 | She pulls off her t-shirt , she is safe while he is swimming out to the centre , she slips out of the rest of her clothes , kicks off the espadrilles , and running along the boards dives in . |
| 15 | He is ducking out of his responsibilities as Secretary of State for Education and Science , just as he did on health . |
| 16 | ‘ He is getting back to his normal self but he is still quite unsteady on his feet and gets nervous when there are a lot of people around . |
| 17 | He is dropping out of progress for our people in the European Community . |
| 18 | There are computer games on the market in which the player has the illusion that he is wandering about in an underground labyrinth , which has a definite if complex geography and in which he encounters dragons , minotaurs or other mythic adversaries . |
| 19 | Though he still likes the animal and slapstick comics , he is branching out into the blood-and-thunder type . |
| 20 | So he is bailing out in favour using his company 's graphical user interface expertise in the burgeoning Personal Digital Assistant market and its non-exclusive licensing deal with IBM . |
| 21 | Sam claims her father breached the trust she placed in him and says he is holding on to her cash . |
| 22 | He is cleaning up after me . |
| 23 | There are small twigs digging into her back , she is angry , pushes against him , but he pays no attention , carries on , his hands exploring , he is smiling down at her and when he lowers his head the water from his hair seeps into her mouth so that she tastes the lake , the fish smell of deep water , sees the sun brilliant through the branches behind his head , blinding her eyes , sun specks floating , she closes them as he moves against her . |
| 24 | He is sitting up in bed and clearly doing better . |
| 25 | Here he is sitting up in the marital bed , his jaw ruggedly clenched on his unlit pipe . |
| 26 | He is running out of possible patrons , sales talk , flirtatiousness , hair , steam . |
| 27 | When he has those upper-case problems , you know he is running out of steam . |
| 28 | The priest , understandably , flees ; the wife tells her husband that he is running off with the partridges , with the result that the husband pursues the priest brandishing his knife , apparently confirming what the wife told the priest . |
| 29 | To that extent , he is going along with the orthodoxy , and not disturbing the papal infallibility of his predecessors and the process they have established . |
| 30 | increase in value added tax — but he is standing down at the general election . |