Example sentences of "he [is] [v-ing] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the inspectorate he is advising the Home Secretary on policy in four crucial areas : complaints and discipline ; firearms ; public order and counter-terrorism . |
| 2 | He is wearing the mantle now , made from the skins of the hyrax , a flea-ridden animal which looks like a giant guinea pig . |
| 3 | ‘ I believe he is bringing the sport into disrepute . |
| 4 | FORMER Tottenham defender Paul Miller yesterday revealed he is helping the consortium bidding to buy-out Barnet chairman Stan Flashman for £1 million . |
| 5 | Thus a car dealer does not obtain the protection and that is so even if he is buying the vehicle for his own private purposes and not for his business purposes , Stevenson v. Beverley Bentinck ( 1976 C.A. ) . |
| 6 | He is moving the factory to Doncaster ( though he will keep an office in London ) and looking for voluntary redundancies . |
| 7 | At the age of 37 — old by Australian standards — Border accepts that he is nearing the end of his career but he is desparate to prolong it for two reasons . |
| 8 | The veteran former Wimbledon striker , 34 in March , and an almost perpetual substitute for Sheffield United this season , knows he is nearing the end of his big-time career . |
| 9 | Even as he uses the accommodation in Annexe A to manoeuvre Serafin into discovering for himself the waiting garret , so he is using the garret to manoeuvre him into rejecting all the proposed associates in Annexe B. Once Serafin has insisted on installing himself in the garret — against all reasonable advice — he is going to discover that the kind of staff he needs will be young and agile , with a good knowledge of the backstairs of Government buildings and an ability to duck their heads and remain inclined slightly forwards for long periods of time . |
| 10 | ‘ He is using the privy , ’ he said . |
| 11 | He is reaching the age , you see , when he will be expected to play a larger part in public affairs . |
| 12 | he is breaking the court orders , |
| 13 | Trying to repair the damage done to McKendrick 's positive face , he asks to be excused for his own inadequacies : Anderson 's upholding of the modesty maxim is augmented by the emphasis he puts on the sincerity of his apology ( the tonic syllable in the first sentence falling on " am " ) , stressing that he is fulfilling the felicity conditions ( Searle : 1969 ) for that speech act . |
| 14 | It is a sure sign he is taking the issue extremely seriously . |
| 15 | A nasty suspicion comes to me that he is taking the question seriously . |
| 16 | Presumably he is taking the intention to be to charge the trust only if it is not an unduly great burden on the trustee . |
| 17 | Gavin Scott has now moved on from science to other things ( he is reading the news on TV-am 's Good Morning Britain ) , so we shall not , presumably , see the further development of his short career in science . |
| 18 | He is working on a scheme with the National Federation of WI to organise a competition to celebrate next year 's 75th anniversary by offering 10 telecottages as prizes for its 9,000 branches and he is hoping the WI will establish a pilot telecottage near its college in Denman , Oxfordshire . |
| 19 | He is hoping the sale of the book will help reach the total $ 500,000 needed to complete the restoration work . |
| 20 | He is telling the church to stick to its principles and not get side tracked or become hypocritical . |
| 21 | Francis ' account of his methods in administering anabolic steroids to his athletes is factual and detailed and there is no reason to doubt that he is telling the truth . |
| 22 | Tod is conducting a long argument , and he is telling the truth , but the invisible people who might hear and judge luckily refuse to believe him and turn away in silence , weariness and disgust . |
| 23 | I do n't know whether he is telling the truth . |
| 24 | But a good student should be able to sense whether he is getting the point of the problem or not . |
| 25 | He tries to look as if he is considering the fairness of the price , but while he hesitates his head has started nodding . |
| 26 | I do n't know how seriously he is considering the offer , but he was buying every book in the shop on the subject of the Far East . |
| 27 | Always trust a financier because he is investing the stuff that counts . |
| 28 | He is serving the household alongside me . |
| 29 | He is seeking the way to give moral and spiritual leadership from a position of identification with his own people 's rightful longings . |
| 30 | ‘ As long as Richard Duke of York remains here , he is guaranteeing the security of the king his brother . ’ |