Example sentences of "he [verb] [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | him Keep giving all the |
| 2 | The stoma care nurse and ward nurses were able to answer his questions over the next few days and also showed Mr Reynolds some of the bags which can be worn over a stoma and let him practise handling these . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've told him to stop doing all these dreary panel shows , ’ Julian Clary tells me . |
| 4 | Ms Morrell attempts damage limitation by telling her boss to keep his mouth shut and not rock the boat , but on he goes collecting more enemies and being let down by erstwhile friends . |
| 5 | He admitted sending both packages . |
| 6 | Craddock had a chronically infected nasal antrum , and Fleming and he tried instilling some mould filtrate into it , with no obvious benefit . |
| 7 | When the Minister reviews the business regulations will he consider extending that review to the regulation of financial institutions , in view of the problems with the collapse of Guinness III and the potential collapse of Guinness II , and in view of the serious difficulty with fraud regulation at present , particularly now that only three people will be going to gaol for a shorter time than the whole of the Guinness trial was taken , with one of them , Mr. Ernest Saunders , whose sentence was reduced because of ill health , on the national media this morning in blooming health and protesting his innocence ? |
| 8 | ‘ But there must be a point … when you 've hosed off all the muck and the glaze and the bits of overpainting and your musks of Araby have done their work and you get to the point when you know that what you see before you is what the chap would have seen before him when he stopped painting all those centuries ago . |
| 9 | Abruptly he stopped doing this , took hold of the brim on either side of the crown , raised the hat and placed it firmly on his head . |
| 10 | When you 're bored bored at other times , let's put it that way if he starts doing any bio-chemistry at all start as , start asking him about the proper names of the systematic names of things and you watch him bristle ! |
| 11 | He lives in the Stroud District and he 'd demanding that local people should be refunded the £7 million they 've paid in water charges . |
| 12 | There is no specific exemption for cold calls in relation to futures transactions although calls on existing customers may be made where the investor has indicated in writing before the call is made that he envisages receiving such calls . |
| 13 | Did he like doing this I wondered ? |
| 14 | He intends renaming this spin-out , so to speak , Lachman Technology Inc . |
| 15 | The seeds are sown and he intends investigating all possibilities the moment South Africa 's short tour of England ends this weekend . |
| 16 | He returned carrying some tepid water and cleaning material , and gently began wiping the sore cut . |
| 17 | He went into the shed where he kept the tractor and came back with his crowbar , with which he began levering more logs from the trailer to the ground . |
| 18 | Once , on a more adventurous day , he began taking some of the furniture apart with a screwdriver he found beside the garden shed , but was caught by his mother and told to put it back the way he had found it before she chased him out of the house . |
| 19 | He began writing these experiences for a film and when he produced his manuscript it was partly autobiographical . |
| 20 | He began examining several of the clay jars and bottles , while Ace stood by , wondering what she was supposed to do in a place like this . |
| 21 | He began moving away from the ball when he began hitting those dreaded laterals with short irons . |
| 22 | So , he 's rang every day since and he keeps getting this person , that says er er , we 'll pass your message , we 'll pass your message , we 'll get back to you , I 'll get back to you . |
| 23 | He keeps buying all these things . |
| 24 | The name must have stuck in his mind because that 's what he keeps muttering all the time . ’ |
| 25 | I mean , Mike really likes that as a front room , he keeps saying that 's gon na be our room , you know |
| 26 | But still , Coe says he enjoyed writing this one far more than his previous books , and it shows ; The Dwarves of Death is a light and pacey piece of whimsical London noir . |
| 27 | Once or twice during the Course he would make an excuse to come to collect something or other , and I think he enjoyed seeing some of the results of the teachers ' acquaintance with the displays . |
| 28 | it 's to , to a certain extent you start writing the essay and then once you start writing it you suddenly realize what you want to say , I mean he started writing this erm and he , he 's not quite sure I th I think , you know , where , where it 's all leading to . |
| 29 | On the other hand , perhaps the youth was just plain stupid and had n't realised what would happen when he started waving that placard about . |
| 30 | He started punching another young feller and we stopped the gig , and said if it continued we just were n't going to play . ’ |