Example sentences of "[adv] he is [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most players like to have some relief but they know with him that no matter how much he is hurting he will go on . ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps he is referring to some figures that were leaked a couple of weeks ago from the Industrial Development Board for Northern Ireland — a reference to 44 inward investment jobs . |
| 3 | Has he been taking lessons from the right hon. Member for Yeovil ( Mr. Ashdown ) in arm movements , or perhaps he is auditioning for a part in ’ Thunderbirds ’ ? |
| 4 | Perhaps he is bringing his forearm forwards and leaving the lower leg hanging down . |
| 5 | I do not know the latest medical prognosis of how long he will live , but perhaps he is hoping not to be around in 30 years ' time when the papers become available . |
| 6 | Perhaps he is mellowing a bit . |
| 7 | As to state of mind , Raskolnikov lives with his own continuously but inspects it only intermittently , like the rest of us ; whereas the author surveys the whole truth the whole time , so that we never find him wondering whether perhaps Raskolnikov is thinking this or perhaps he is thinking that : a fact which isolates Crime and Punishment among the mature novels , because elsewhere Dostoevsky loves the unsettled and unsettling narrative posture of ‘ perhaps ’ , particularly with his contracting and dilating collective voice , the ‘ we ’ swept by rumour and speculation which arrives in The House of the Dead and reaches its full flowering in The Possessed . |
| 8 | Perhaps he is working for someone else . |
| 9 | Perhaps he is leading the group into intercession ; perhaps towards confession ; perhaps towards proclaiming strongly the kingdom of God and engaging in spiritual warfare . |
| 10 | Maybe he 'd love it , obviously he is trying to take the club forward . |
| 11 | So he is bailing out in favour using his company 's graphical user interface expertise in the burgeoning Personal Digital Assistant market and its non-exclusive licensing deal with IBM . |
| 12 | So he is setting out to change that . |
| 13 | So he , he went , course he had us calling like I 'm calling Gemma , Gemma and Jade and so he is going calling them by their names ! |
| 14 | So he is doing well if he genuinely feels no lusting after earthly things but such a burning love of God that it is the only thing he wants to talk about , the only activity he wishes to pursue ; and if anything which furthers it , however apparently difficult , is easily done , and any hardship suffered gladly with genuinely indestructible inner joy . |
| 15 | So he is doing more solo work , as in his festival date , and featuring his own numbers like My Turn Now and The Company of Fools . |
| 16 | But you feel certain that deep inside he is saying ‘ If we do n't put 437 points on those bleeding Welshmen … . ’ |
| 17 | Soon he is writing modern poems . |
| 18 | Soon he is digging like a whirling dervish , the impressive show ending with another frantic leap . |
| 19 | Tonight he is serving Lamb Tarpeius , one of six menus on offer , all in latin with English translations . |
| 20 | The Secretary of State may try to dodge the issue but tonight he is asking us to allow him and British Coal to pay for the top-of-the-range redundancy levels which the interim report from Rothschild urges as a necessary prerequisite for privatisation — |
| 21 | Strach has been on his last legs for the past 2 seasons and while he still produces high quality performances more often than not he is looking more tired with each game he plays , not suprising for someone of his age . |
| 22 | The system now employs feedback to tell the operator whether or not he is achieving the desired result and , if not , the size of the error . |
| 23 | Can anyone help R. Standring , from Bangor in Gwynedd , who is keen to learn whether or not he is sitting on a gold mine or , to be more precise , swinging with one ? |
| 24 | ‘ Already he is looking weak . |
| 25 | INDUSTRY Minister Peter Lilley said yesterday he is lobbying hard to bring part of a £500m contract to Darlington . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | How well-cut his suit now turns out to be , and how confidently , as they disappear once more he is laying down die law to the old man sitting so respectfully opposite . |
| 28 | Before we leave Glamorgan , a word of congratulation to Stephen James , who has been opening in place of Butcher and compiling runs with the kind of technique that reveals how earnestly he is trying to establish himself this summer . |
| 29 | In His account of what happened to the rich man and Lazarus after they died ( Luke 16 verses 19/31 ) Jesus quoted the words spoken to the rich man in hell , by Abraham and in verses 29 and 31 we see Abraham referring to Moses and The Prophets and clearly he is speaking specifically of the scriptures attributed to them . |
| 30 | When he comes back he is wearing a shirt and a pair of socks held up by suspenders . |