Example sentences of "he be [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carrie flashed Seb a shy smile that , had he been looking at her , would have conveyed to him all the love she was feeling . |
| 2 | What would he be doing at this moment ? |
| 3 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 4 | She lifted a hand to shade her eyes and Martin Jackson 's face appeared on the backdrop of light , as if he were looking at her from the sun 's centre . |
| 5 | He were looking at that bus . |
| 6 | There was authority in his voice and she felt a great surge of relief , as if he were plucking at her pain and releasing it . |
| 7 | ‘ I am the Conservatives ’ Jeremy Irons , ’ he murmured as apologetically as if he were standing at the rostrum with a brand new Oscar . |
| 8 | He has already told McCoist , for instance , that he would get the number of goals Rangers ' top scorer has if he were playing at Ibrox . |
| 9 | When a user says ‘ I want to introduce fonts into my document ’ he is thinking at the wrong level . |
| 10 | ( He is gazing at his machine . |
| 11 | You could ask PH to introspect into the contents of his phenomenological awareness when he is looking at faces for as long as you liked , but there would be no insight that any recognition is occurring . |
| 12 | Mr Clinton might say in June that he is renewing MFN until 1994 ; that he is looking at the application of other American laws to areas like weapons proliferation and trade abuses ; and that he is starting some ( as yet murky ) process to ensure that the Chinese are discharging their obligations under human-rights treaties . |
| 13 | Tibet 's cries are unlikely in themselves to influence the president one way or another ; he is looking at the broad picture of conditions throughout China . |
| 14 | At present he is looking at renewing ITN 's contract with Channel 4 , linking into breakfast TV , negotiating for the new Channel 5 franchise and possibly supplying news programmes for cable and satellite stations abroad . |
| 15 | he has problems with the e-marker , and needs , especially , to hear many of the words he misspells pronounced clearly while he is looking at them , and to have pointed out to him the parts of the word that correspond to the various sounds . |
| 16 | In looking at people he is looking at profit potential and the attitudes and skills relating to that . |
| 17 | This means that a sailor who is lost at sea can tell which lighthouse he is looking at by simply counting the . |
| 18 | He is looking at the flowers , but he keeps turning towards the house . |
| 19 | He is looking at a bewitched forest of crystal trees and jewelled flowers , rooted in black soil , breathing black air . |
| 20 | But these photographs are misleading to the amateur who forgets that he is looking at a ‘ frozen ’ action captured part of a swing . |
| 21 | He is looking at me with a slight frown , disconcerted by something about me , ready to be embarrassed . |
| 22 | He is looking at services offered by the council and his drawings include the mobile bus which takes books to isolated farmhouses . |
| 23 | What I think my colleague is saying is that when the actuary is assessing the commitments of the funds , he is looking at the anticipated increased earnings until the person retires and I think when the calculation is made for somebody who is er a deferred pensioner of leaving er a pension fund to take his money elsewhere a similar calculation or the same calculation should be used , the one that the actuary last used in , in looking forward and saying what the commitments are . |
| 24 | Even though he is staying at Wednesday , half his attention is sure to be elsewhere following all the recent transfer talk . |
| 25 | ‘ He is a valuable player and as far as I 'm concerned he is staying at Liverpool . |
| 26 | There is even the possibility that the knowledge evoked here may have been obtained indirectly , through some other channel than direct experience , as a speaker could utter any of the above four sentences without ever having observed what he is asserting at all . |
| 27 | I do n't think this means that there is no saying what he is getting at in these works ; opinions can and will be formed , and for the extent of the present discussion I have been attempting to express one . |
| 28 | In fact , in order really to explain to the reader what he is getting at , Wordsworth , like Locke , has in the end to return to the period before memory can help us . |
| 29 | The epitomist himself emphasizes that he is writing at a certain distance from the events because he concludes his story with the words : " From this time Jerusalem has been in the possession of the Jews . " |
| 30 | One might do things out of a self-loving pride , but this is not benevolence ; and though a benevolent person may gratify himself , this is not what he is aiming at , and is not the principle of his action . |