Example sentences of "he is [v-ing] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His wounded country needs time and international tolerance to recover and , accepting the inevitable , he is buying time with a series of compromises . |
| 2 | Bruno was razor sharp himself as he added : ‘ He is earning money over here and buying houses in Canada . |
| 3 | He does not know he is taking part in a battle . |
| 4 | Denied the opportunity of supervising a major programme of construction in New York , where the Whitney Museum 's trustees have been unable to agree Michael Graves 's proposal for an extension , he is taking responsibility for the final stages of the conversion , now estimated to cost $35 million , of an ornamental warehouse located on Pittsburgh 's North Side , which will accommodate the museum . |
| 5 | Oh yes and er the I pass all the correspondence I have to the County Planning Officer who deals with it with the most enormous efficiency and I hope that he is maintaining liaison with what I call the Rucatse Group which consists of , Neil and Tony and somebody from Crawley who is I think it 's |
| 6 | He is in prison for committing violent crimes against English imperialism and he is demanding status as a political prisoner . |
| 7 | The man is a rogue , he stole from his own firm and now that he is serving time in Swansea Prison , I could never allow him near you , let alone marry you . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ He is seeking compensation for the distress and inconvenience . ’ |
| 9 | He is seeking help in building up a stock of frames . |
| 10 | He is seeking help in building up a stock of the frames . |
| 11 | ‘ . ’ He is drawing attention to the fact that ‘ I know ’ is sometimes used by a speaker to commit himself to the truth of what he proceeds to say . |
| 12 | ‘ If he went now he would see all his previous life here as a waste of time , and in a way he is wreaking vengeance on his mother by being embittered and something of a failure — saying , look what you 've done to me . ’ |
| 13 | Jarvis says he is making progress towards compliance with the beer orders . |
| 14 | In addition to working closely with Government to ensure that fiscal and other financial policies do not create competition barriers for UK industry , he is making harmonisation of financial reporting a priority . |
| 15 | He is making use of the theory of geometrical optics which is an excellent and well-understood approximation to the wave theory , provided the wavelength of the light is small compared to the physical dimensions of the system under consideration . |
| 16 | When Brian Way speaks of direct experience ‘ transcending knowledge ’ , he is denigrating knowledge in a way Dorothy Heathcote would never do . |
| 17 | He is awaiting trial in Luzira Prison , near the capital , Kampala . |
| 18 | When Valentin hear of this naughty dog — pom you call it ? and how he is comporting self in Paris , he shall be not pleased . |
| 19 | For the moment he is playing man about town to her confused tourist . |
| 20 | DEREK LEE , who played fullback for Scottish Schools last season , has nailed his colours to the Glasgow even though he is playing standoff for Watsonians in Edinburgh . |
| 21 | In explaining that my hon. Friend the Minister of State is not present to answer questions because he is doing duty in the Province , I give the right hon. Gentleman an absolute assurance of the commitment of the intelligence services and of their relevance in Northern Ireland today . |
| 22 | Even if the desire is never satisfied in any but the fantasy way , the man who constantly has such desires is to be condemned , for he is gaining satisfaction from a person whom he has divested of personhood and turned into a slave . |
| 23 | Gould 's nominations were more broadly based and he is gaining momentum by contesting the two posts at once . |
| 24 | Now he is losing hope of getting anything back despite continued efforts , including faxing pleas to the star 's Paisley Park base , in Minneapolis , USA . |
| 25 | Meisel is beginning to direct videos and says he is losing interest in fashion as a subject : ‘ It all seems mediocre to me , uninspiring . |
| 26 | He is saying goodbye to what is past and irretrievably lost . |
| 27 | It is emotional because he is saying goodbye to the last of his kind . |
| 28 | He is opening bat in his school 's cricket team and is Bedfordshire Schools ' table tennis champion . |
| 29 | The facial swelling received by midfielder Gordon Armstrong in a derby match clash of heads with Middlesbrough fullback Curtis Fleming has subsided , but he is having treatment for a knee injury . |
| 30 | He is having fun at my expense . |