Example sentences of "be [v-ing] to his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady Bell said her son had been returning to his Land Rover , parked on the opposite side of the road to the farm . |
| 2 | You 've been listening to his scaremongering nonsense . |
| 3 | The right hon. Gentleman has not been listening to his hon. Friends . |
| 4 | No , we 're going to his mum 's |
| 5 | The officer 's life was ‘ almost certainly ’ saved by the fact that one bullet became embedded in a radio handset he had been holding to his ear . |
| 6 | His life had almost certainly been saved by the fact that one bullet had hit a radio handset he had been holding to his ear . |
| 7 | He had been so proud and happy to be returning to his family with the news of his impending marriage , yet now he was leaving home as an outcast . |
| 8 | How can this be happening to his grammar ? |
| 9 | If your father is a millionaire and gives you a five pound note for your birthday , then you might feel a little hard done by ; such a gift would be given out of his riches ; it would n't be according to his riches . |
| 10 | All the time she dashed through the streets , fighting her way through the hubbub , Wilson looked for Mr Browning , knowing he must have heard by now and would surely be rushing to his wife 's side . |
| 11 | It was not as if she would be going to his home . |
| 12 | The squire 's white velvet purse had weighed him down , and though he had slipped it out of his jerkin and felt it sink past his feet , coins still seemed to be clinging to his armpit . |
| 13 | I 'll be speaking to His Royal Highness about this . ’ |
| 14 | Also the person who has helped us sort out maybe come to sensible engineering conclusion on the minor problem , but be saying to his chief , there was a problem with the York though I just managed to sort it out . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm sure Adam will have no difficulty in doing exactly as he pleases , which at the moment happens to be attending to his guests . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ His approach showed no respect and I 'll be talking to his coach . ’ |
| 17 | On the landing , looking out over the High Street , Aziz , wearing new brown overalls bought for him by the headmaster , seemed to be waving to his friend . |
| 18 | Jerry refuses with zest ; he has obviously been springing to his own defence for many a long year . |
| 19 | ‘ Both worrying about the troubles of the world and how to cure them , but John 's been talking to his dad about this Spanish business and other things and he 'll work things out soon . ’ |
| 20 | The publican replied that he 'd been talking to his dog . |
| 21 | And Charles 's tactics were damaging to his own subjects : the peasant who declared that he dare not get out of bed in the morning for fear of the English spoke for many of his compatriots , and the unchallenged presence of English armies on French soil not only caused substantial physical hardship to the population but also lowered Charles 's prestige . |
| 22 | He could see by the dark light that came down from the night sky , a sky that glowed with vivid city lights , that on stands in nearby cages other eagles were listening to his story and staring at him silently . |
| 23 | She had assumed they were going to his friend 's colourful flat but they had been on the motorway for several miles and the road signs said they were travelling north . |
| 24 | Mungo 's clammy pyjamas were clinging to his chest . |
| 25 | He was subtly changed now that they were flying to his mountain abode . |
| 26 | When critics accused Richard Nixon of ‘ indecent exposure ’ , they were n't revealing the origin of his nickname Tricky Dicky ; they were referring to his 1952 TV speech where he was broadcast cuddling his cocker spaniel ‘ Checkers ’ in an attempt to clear his name ( with dog lovers at least ) in the first cock-up regarding a slush fund . |
| 27 | But by a proud assertion of " independence " , an eighteenth-century artisan more likely would have been referring to his ability to maintain a wife and family at a proper standard without recourse to charity or poor relief . |
| 28 | ‘ Whenever we call someone ‘ perceptive ’ or ‘ intuitive ’ , we are referring to his or her ability to read another person 's non-verbal cues and to compare these with verbal signals . ’ |
| 29 | Francis is sticking to his guns |
| 30 | And Mr Irving , seen here at a neo-Nazi rally , is sticking to his view that the gas chambers are a myth … |