Example sentences of "he [be] [v-ing] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following day , in a temperature down around — 2O°C ( — -4°F ) , I am wearing loop-stitch socks and Lundhags , and he is wearing reindeer skin boots and grass . |
| 2 | God is establishing a Kingdom , therefore , into which he is calling people from every country , race and class . |
| 3 | He is demanding £10,000 , leaving us penniless . |
| 4 | Rocco 's shares fell 5p to 164p after news he is spending £64m on the 52-strong Relais motorway chain in France . |
| 5 | Asked whether executive chairman De Benedetti would be ready to sell his shares for the sake of the company , Passera pointed out that in the current capital-raising exercise , he is injecting $180m , and has burdened his own company with additional debt to help Olivetti . |
| 6 | Kevin Keegan said yesterday he is asking £150,000 for the 29-year-old , but City will be hard-pressed to pay the Dane 's wages . |
| 7 | So he 's taking people up on regular flights over the Gloucestershire countryside . |
| 8 | He 's catching trout and he 's |
| 9 | I guess so , it seems so , Graham , oh , he 's making people redundant , he 's gone off , it 's about the third time in three weeks take a day playing golf . |
| 10 | He 's making people redundant , why are they , do n't they have enough work ? |
| 11 | Working with trained helpers , he 's compiling data on a thousand different species of trees threatened by the forest 's destruction . |
| 12 | He says he 's offering £10,000 reward , he wants to know who 's behind the attacks , not just who carried them out . |
| 13 | He 's claiming £300,000 from the President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine and today in London he sought leave to take his claim to the High Court . |
| 14 | Apparently he 's having fish and chips in town with some of the boys . ’ |
| 15 | He was pestering people at the bar , trying to butt into their conversations or sit down at their tables and behaving — as far as people who did not know he was ill were concerned — like an archetypal northern wally . |
| 16 | With a sweeping run down the outside , the Sadler 's Wells colt displayed impressive acceleration to lead inside the two-furlong marker and draw clear for a length-and-a-half victory over Dr Devious , from whom he was receiving 5lb . |
| 17 | A sailor nearby — he was pushing people into the hold as if he was packing meat — called out to her . |
| 18 | He was gathering data for a book about world metro systems , a task on which he had been engaged for years . |
| 19 | He was ringing people he did not like to tell them that they were not invited to his party on Wednesday night . |
| 20 | He was telling people how wonderful things would be in the future ; I want to see that future . |
| 21 | He even fell into arrears with his mortgage at a time when he was earning £400,000 a year as chairman of Lonrho , and at one stage had a 300-acre farm and farmhouse , next to his magnificent 14th-century manor house in Somerset , repossessed . |
| 22 | Minton 's largesse was attractive : Bernard still recollects how , at a time when he was earning £2 10s a week , in a timber yard off Greek Street , Minton astonished him with a gift of £10 , in effect a month 's wages . |
| 23 | But the punishment to his body started to show itself during his summer contract with Western Suburbs , where reputedly he was earning £4,000 a match . |
| 24 | Do the Bank want to go back to a time when a male official could not get married until he was earning £150 per annum and by the time he was earning that sum he was past having an interest in marriage . |
| 25 | Soon he was earning £20,000 a year . |
| 26 | They 'd then give the farmer plenty of Scotch and by to get him so he did n't care if he was giving £24 or £25 a head for bullocks . |
| 27 | He was investigating means of leaving Iraq . |
| 28 | He was asking £3m for it . |
| 29 | But in 1795 came another demand , so the promise/contract was broken , for he was spending £45,000 a year more than his income . |
| 30 | He had n't seen copper trying to get him caught up , I wonder how much he was using mirror when he was overtaking people ? |