Example sentences of "he [be] [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He s doing the same now with Whelan and Forrester etc . |
| 2 | Had he been watching the others , before he took his own spoonful ? |
| 3 | Had he been telling the truth ? |
| 4 | Had he been doing the same job when he was in Suffolk ? |
| 5 | His friends tried to console hi , but he could n't help thinking about the £9,300 percentage that would have been his had he been carrying the bag on the day . |
| 6 | So who will he be giving the information to ? |
| 7 | Historically the Sigmar votes tend to be cast on behalf of the Count of the Reikland , while the Ulric vote almost invariably goes to the Count of Middenheim should he be contesting the election . |
| 8 | Tenderly he touched her , kissed her lips , not with passion now , but with a delicate reverence , as if he were kissing the fragile bloom of a rare flower . |
| 9 | ‘ Ye-es , ’ said Linley as though he were considering the predicament with sympathy . |
| 10 | Dad started off in statesman-like fashion , as if he were addressing the United Nations , earnestly saying he 'd come to love Eva over the time he 'd known her and so on . |
| 11 | He felt he knew very little about her present feelings , which were so malign toward him and unmapped that it was as if he were seeing the back side of the moon . |
| 12 | as if he were telling the story to someone else , Culley gave him a full account of what he 'd heard on the tape . |
| 13 | When they 'd moved in he 'd made a point of telling just about everybody where it was and how much it was costing — wincing a little at the same time , as if he were telling the story against himself and his own folly — but it had become a sterile kind of heaven , and he sat around in it like some forgotten angel . |
| 14 | Fagg emitted an interesting glugging sound , rather as if he were repeating the name of the insulted Vietnamese over and over again . |
| 15 | He always rides as if he were winning the St Leger . |
| 16 | That is , he will not make the same judgements as he would make if he were viewing the scene itself . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps three , ’ he said mildly at last , as if he were answering the simplest and most natural of questions . |
| 18 | At the inspectorate he is advising the Home Secretary on policy in four crucial areas : complaints and discipline ; firearms ; public order and counter-terrorism . |
| 19 | He is wearing the familiar Puttnam cardigan look , but is smaller than I expected , like so many who are writ large in the media . |
| 20 | He is wearing the mantle now , made from the skins of the hyrax , a flea-ridden animal which looks like a giant guinea pig . |
| 21 | ‘ I believe he is bringing the sport into disrepute . |
| 22 | I would understand it if the Minister were saying merely that he is reorganising the same amount of resources , but he has cut resources . |
| 23 | You just see he is filling the eyes of your friends |
| 24 | Bill rates Ayr , along with Ascot , Newmarket and York , as one of his favourite tracks and he is eyeing the Ayr Gold Cup next Saturday as a possible target for his consistent Big Hand . |
| 25 | Ah not too bad he says the doctor says I 've got a festered back passage Dessie says and there he is scrubbing the fuck imagine |
| 26 | FORMER Tottenham defender Paul Miller yesterday revealed he is helping the consortium bidding to buy-out Barnet chairman Stan Flashman for £1 million . |
| 27 | Thus a car dealer does not obtain the protection and that is so even if he is buying the vehicle for his own private purposes and not for his business purposes , Stevenson v. Beverley Bentinck ( 1976 C.A. ) . |
| 28 | In any event the purchaser will want to know that he is buying the right assets from the right companies . |
| 29 | Oh , but that but he is acting the whole time , that 's not him being him . |
| 30 | He is moving the factory to Doncaster ( though he will keep an office in London ) and looking for voluntary redundancies . |