Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] he [be] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Investigators says that on this occasion he was also flying too low . |
| 2 | Investigators says that on this occasion he was also flying too low . |
| 3 | She looked sideways at him ; the ruined cheek was away from her , and this morning he was hardly limping . |
| 4 | Within another month or two he did The Rainbow which got enormous coverage , and within another month he was here getting ready for the first American tour . |
| 5 | With his free hand he was softly pushing back her hair , sending goosebumps scattering from Shiona 's head to her toes . |
| 6 | By ensuring rejection in this way he was also ensuring that he would not be enslaved by anyone else 's methods of work . |
| 7 | At this time he was already experimenting with voltaic cells , electrical machines and kites , and the electro-deposition of metals . |
| 8 | week he 's got so much money he 's still spending it on her . |
| 9 | The plantation director was standing on an upturned crate that had been placed in position for him beneath the light , and despite the early hour he was already wearing his customary pitch helmet , the sleeves of his bush shirt were rolled high on his brown muscular arms and he was bare-legged in shorts , heavy jungle boots and short thick socks . |
| 10 | In his second year he was already marking the Greek essays of first-year students and giving them some classes , in order to raise money . |
| 11 | They bathed his arm again but with the water of the brook instead of wine , and though this gave him brief ease he was soon moaning and tossing again . |
| 12 | They bathed his arm again but with the water of the brook instead of wine , and though this gave him brief ease he was soon moaning and tossing again . |
| 13 | Good job he 's only going on his own then in n it ? |
| 14 | He was sentenced to another five years in jail on top of the two years for physical abuse he was already serving . |
| 15 | Instead of coming up for medical attention he was just sitting there , looking white , and Ruth was sitting next to him . |
| 16 | On the practical side he was now selling more fossils than insurance . |
| 17 | No comment was made by either demonstrators or critical readers — or by the ambassador — about the kindness of Shlomo Green , the old Israeli who showed such compassion towards the Palestinian in whose former home he was now living . |
| 18 | One minute he was just standing there — and the next instant he suddenly grabbed hold of Laura , quickly scooping her tall , slender body up into his arms before carrying the struggling figure of the girl towards his large limousine . |
| 19 | At one time he was always making noises like a chicken . |
| 20 | this company moves at such a rapid rate of knots that I have a meeting tomorrow morning with the Managing Director Building and Property Development at his house in Pitlochrie which is the only time he 's literally coming back to change his shirt before he goes wandering round the world again so the only way I can get him is to go up and stay with the in-laws over night and see him at breakfast time tomorrow . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He held on to his love of unregimented activity in the open air , away from encroaching London suburbia , and he cherished a sense of belonging to another country — Cambria or Gwalia , Glamorgan or Gwent — in addition to the still strange city he was slowly beginning to explore along both banks of the Thames . |
| 23 | In any case he was already living where he intended to retire . |
| 24 | In Trebizond , Mick Crackbene worked for the Genoese against Nicholas , in the very same ship he 's now sailing . |
| 25 | And in the corner of his eye — an anxious blue blur was all that she amounted to — this Soviet woman he was deliberately ignoring . |
| 26 | After half an hour on the bed in the dry heat he was really enjoying himself and was perspiring profusely . |
| 27 | Unless — unless at that time he was still living . |
| 28 | A man like Ben Nicholson , elderly now , rather frail , still I hope working — certainly last year he was still working and exhibiting — is part of an international modern art tendency , or number of tendencies and is recognized as such , and yet if you examine his art , it 's full of Englishness as well . |
| 29 | He did that again three times on the way , and after the third time he was barely stumbling along , dragging the rifle . |