Example sentences of "[subord] he [be] doing [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once he was doing this during a speech by Jimmy Logan who caught sight of the scribbling out of the corner of his eye . |
| 2 | It just means that he 's — a lot of his time is taken up doing stats and it 's if he 's doing that he 's not doing something else . |
| 3 | So the thing is , if he , inconsistent in that story , if he 's doing that , that direction how did he get shot from that way , where he 's own telling stories apparently coming from ? |
| 4 | There is one there is another one on evaluation that I think , erm I 'll give to Ray because he 's doing that evaluation thing |
| 5 | I 'm quite an independent person , but I was quite insecure , I needed someone to say this is good , this is bad , and because he was doing that it gave me the determination I needed . |
| 6 | cos he he thought he was a mechanic because he was doing that sort of work . |
| 7 | On hearing that Mills was headed for the Middle East , Suit had suggested he should look Coleman up in Cyprus because he was doing some research there and had a lot of good contacts . |
| 8 | so he there and he 's flashing away his lights and kept his indicators on daft bastard she says and while he 's doing that some fucking overtakes see but he was already flashing his lights and puts his indicators on . |
| 9 | While he was doing this , an Imperial Airways airliner , due to fly to London , prepared to lumber off across the Channel . |
| 10 | While he was doing this Maggie took a pan of boiling water from the cooker and laid it by the side of the sink . |
| 11 | While he was doing this , Deuce was gaily cascading powder into the bath , now and then yelling out , ‘ Just a little bit more ! |
| 12 | Afterwards , he washed Wolfhead in the blood , but when the dog growled at him while he was doing this , he took his spear and killed it . |
| 13 | His servant came to pack his clothes , and while he was doing this , he told Dorian that the dead man was a sailor , but no one knew his name . |
| 14 | ‘ While he was doing this she shouted to her mother , who was sitting downstairs . |
| 15 | 20 day later , while he was doing some finishing off work on the bungalow , he recklessly made a false statement , i. e. he told the purchaser that the bungalow was covered by the National House Builders Registration Council 's 10 year guarantee . |
| 16 | And whilst he was doing that operation where was P C ? |
| 17 | I could n't decide whether he was doing this to make me even more relaxed , like a television warm-up man , or because he was over-excited at the prospect of getting at my polyps . |
| 18 | taken seriously when he 's doing that ? |
| 19 | John , John Venables , who is the science correspondents for Radio Cambridge , and as I say who also runs his own media training sessions ; Julian Dunn , who is Senior News Reporter for Radio Cambridge , so I hope he 's going to kneecap a few of you and make life fairly uncomfortable when he 's doing some trial interviews , and Lloyd Addison , who 's a freelance from Radio Norfolk . |
| 20 | ‘ We are horrified that such an innocent young lad as our son Craig could be cut down in this way when he was doing humanitarian work , ’ he said . |
| 21 | He wore it when he was doing any mucky jobs . |
| 22 | As he was doing that , he saw the paragraph about himself in The Stage and planted his shoe over it . |
| 23 | Pete picked it up , looked at the label , and then set it down again ; and as he was doing this , Alina appeared in the doorway . |
| 24 | ‘ The language of Newton ! ’ he cried , scribbling figures on the blackboard and immediately wiping them off with a damp rag as though he were doing vanishing tricks . |