Example sentences of "he be [v-ing] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clinton has to promise he will create jobs , even though he is firing thousands of civil servants and military personnel . |
| 2 | He is earning thirty thousand pounds with a take home pay of nineteen hundred pounds , yeah ? |
| 3 | But he is taking one major step forward today , and that is a step towards the cliff of political oblivion for the Conservative party in Scotland . |
| 4 | Writing from his prison cell in the Republic where he is serving 10 years for armed robbery , McGlinchey claimed he could easily tap into a central databank of RUC files . |
| 5 | And every day Berkowitz , 45 , was brought to court from Wandsworth prison , where he is serving three years for such an offence . |
| 6 | He is holding 1905 - 1860 = 45 fewer contracts than otherwise , and this reduces his loss by 45 × 500 = £22 500 . |
| 7 | Greg remained perched uneasily , staring down into his glass , feeling like a juggler who suddenly finds he is keeping eleven balls in the air instead of ten , and wonders where on earth the other ball has come from . |
| 8 | Presently , he is making six TV films based on stories by Frederick Forsyth . |
| 9 | But to read Wittgenstein as a behaviourist is to ignore the many passages in which he explicitly disavows that he is attacking one experiential explanation only to embrace another , and to ignore his own fact-presupposing explanation of the meaning of pain-language . |
| 10 | He is ignoring nine-tenths of the million long-term unemployed . ’ |
| 11 | In reply to BS Berlyn 's letter in the December issue of Credit Management where he complain about a creditor 's inability to enforce judgment against its debtor when a winding-up petition has been presented against that debtor , I can only say that he is ignoring one of the fundamental concepts of English insolvency law , that all creditors should be treated equally when their debtor becomes insolvent . |
| 12 | The Grammy-winning Genesis singer has decided to live full-time in America , where he is planning three films deals for next year . |
| 13 | He 's demanding twelve million pounds ransom . |
| 14 | And in the vast majority , if not in all the parables , certainly in ninety nine percent of them , Jesus is not teaching a multitude of different things , he 's teaching one basic truth , and everything else is just to su substantiate and to provide illustration for that . |
| 15 | He 's kicking 50 years old and it 's a bit manic . ’ |
| 16 | He 's bringing half-a-dozen bodyguards with him but they 're all amateurs , made up of officers from the Zimbalan army . |
| 17 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 18 | One Sun OEM reports he 's getting hundreds of 36MHz Viking-based Sparcstation 10 Model 30s and one 40MHz Model 41 : he expects the latter to remain scarce for awhile . |
| 19 | And he , he 's getting one parent benefit ! |
| 20 | Er so er let's say that the ten percent rate applies , er mind you ten percent is a long way from where we are now , but it makes the figures easy to look at , so er let's say that he 's getting ten percent gross on his return on a building society , he 'd actually get seven and a half percent net , er so on his ten thousand he 's going to earn seven fifty . |
| 21 | ‘ Hell , Leith , he 's pushing thirty ! |
| 22 | I think he 's passing two . |
| 23 | His keyboard must really hate him — when he 's not ignoring it , he 's bashing seven shades of shite out of it . |
| 24 | His keyboard must really hate him — when he 's not ignoring it , he 's bashing seven shades of shite out of it . |
| 25 | He 's saving three pounds a week and putting it in the post office at hoe . |
| 26 | Just cos he 's reaching thirty . |
| 27 | From this converted shed next to the pub , he 's producing ninety gallons of each a week . |
| 28 | I want a divorce , that 's what I want , but he 'll not budge as long as he 's drawing two salaries and has me cooking for him — but I 'll not eat with him , I stick myself in that tiny kitchen in there — can you imagine the life I lead ? |
| 29 | ‘ He 's earning four times too much for doing half the job . ’ |
| 30 | He 's doing twelve years , as a matter of fact . ’ |