Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There he goes getting defensive . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Having made Kuwait his 19th province and sworn never to leave it , he needs ringing international declarations on Palestine , not just hints and mumbles , to blot out the shame of retreat . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | But his value could rocket when he starts winning big races and , later , at stud . |
| 6 | He loves performing magic tricks for the designers in their studios . |
| 7 | He says having two children close together is bound to be hard work . |
| 8 | Celtic 's John Collins will definitely begin the match , beside Paul McStay in midfield and he favours playing three attackers . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He recalls walking three rounds a day ‘ frequently ’ at 1s. 3d. a round , plus lunch ( in the caddy shop ) and a tip when lucky . |
| 11 | He intends renaming this spin-out , so to speak , Lachman Technology Inc . |
| 12 | The seeds are sown and he intends investigating all possibilities the moment South Africa 's short tour of England ends this weekend . |
| 13 | He 's got various types of grapes and environments ; for instance , some he grows using green manures and he 's experimenting all the time . |
| 14 | In this issue we ask chief executive to respond to some of the key questions you have raised and to describe what he sees happening next . |
| 15 | He keeps getting two hundred pound to pay for his petrol . |
| 16 | All he 's worried about is getting wickets , and he 's , as I think I said yesterday he starts to feel a bit frustrated with his lax control , the ball flows all over the place and then somehow or other he 's got at the , the real quality batsmen in the opposition side , he 's got DaSilva out , might have been a slightly lucky dismissal caught down the leg side and he 's got him out and he 's done that in every match he 's played , he 's given away runs pretty rapidly , but he keeps getting vital wickets as well . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He keeps buying all these things . |
| 19 | If it were , I would n't feel like this , as though I 'm running , running , running , trying to slam a door that he keeps kicking open with a look , a word , a turn of his dark head . |
| 20 | The name must have stuck in his mind because that 's what he keeps muttering all the time . ’ |
| 21 | I mean , Mike really likes that as a front room , he keeps saying that 's gon na be our room , you know |
| 22 | He does n't know what they will build to , but as long as he keeps finding new pieces the picture will slowly become clear . |
| 23 | He can stop if he keeps playing like that every week . |
| 24 | He remembers standing next to his dad in Regents Park , both of them in welly boots with plastic bags of bread . |
| 25 | He admits having sexual intercourse with her but denies rape , claiming she instigated the act . |
| 26 | He proposes using special porous asphalt , trying new road surfaces and building noise barriers and earth mounds , initially roads carrying 75,000 vehicles a day will be tackled . |
| 27 | Richard Long has been doing it for years in his site-related stone works — three of which , based on materials gathered in the states of New York and New Jersey — can be seen until 13 March at 65 Thompson St. And surely there is a kind of nostalgie de la boue in the drawings he makes using ordinary mud as the medium . |
| 28 | ‘ He makes seating redundant because he gets fans on their feet . ’ |
| 29 | He relished the fight , like he relishes getting stuck in , but did n't really enjoy the job . |
| 30 | ( He stops pacing dead . ) |