Example sentences of "[that] he 's [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our Nancy might be only seventeen , but she 's already a full-growed woman to look at , and I know she 'd be pleased to be 'is wife , 'e 'd only 'ave to ask 'er , except 'e did say once that 'e 's waitin' a while before 'e gets married . |
| 2 | Once he quits the bank that he 's robbed , only to find his attempts to escape from New York constantly foiled , things become a drag . |
| 3 | The other thing is as well though you could 've actually got more out of Martin by talking about that because you may have mentioned something that he 's enjoying and says oh I do that , or something like that . |
| 4 | He says that he 's heard the shipping companyw ant to re-export the dog , but it would be a brave man who risked trying move the animal in it 's present condition . |
| 5 | But you can hardly set out to persuade your most promising applicant that he 's downgrading himself . |
| 6 | Dick has a generous amount of time and experience in taildraggers like Staggerwings and T-6s but he wanted Bill Dodds who had broad P-40 for the first time so that he could compare the aircraft with others that he 's flown . |
| 7 | ‘ Well all I 'm tellin' you , Pat , is that he 's made a lot of enemies . |
| 8 | And it 's obvious that he 's made a start with the clunch pit murder ; but that is n't noted either . |
| 9 | ‘ It seems my nephew is so besotted with your sister that he 's treated his parents with arrant discourtesy , walking away from the opportunity of meeting his father 's cousin who is flying in from the States — a man who could be influential in his future career . |
| 10 | I do n't think Selina exercises the Fiasco much when I 'm in the States , and of course Alec Llewellyn has no use for it , now that he 's locked up twenty-four hours a day |
| 11 | Yamazaki seems unconcerned by the fact that he 's taking on problems that have defeated many who should have known better . |
| 12 | Er we set up on a regional basis er er Robert talked to you a couple of months ago about the initiatives that he 's taking from our and that again is a very much of a cross practice initiative er which is drawing on all the skills that we 've got within the with within the office penetrate the middle market sector and we are going to er specifically use er our grounds expertise and er computer audit expertise as a product which we saw would be attractive to these er these sort of companies . |
| 13 | but did somebody else say to me that he 's taking action against the Scottish Office |
| 14 | And he 's such a recognisable feature now that he 's become this odd advertising totem — a symbol of endurance and authenticity in a sometimes crummy world . |
| 15 | The Chief Constable of Gloucestershire has announced that he 's leaving his job to take up a new post with the intelligence service in London . |
| 16 | Now , as one New York dealer put it a week ago , ‘ the word is that he 's cashing in . ’ |
| 17 | For now Ted is concentrating on recording Des O'Connor 's new game show called Pot of Gold and he 's pleased that he 's regarded as one of the best in the trade at warming up people . |
| 18 | There is a wealth of revealing evidence on the attitudes that affect reading : ‘ His daddy always takes him to bed , and he says ‘ Can I have a story ? ’ said an engineer 's wife , ‘ but he 's been told now that he 's getting a bit too old for stories ’ ’ [ ‘ He ’ is four ] ( Newson and Newson , 1968 , p.274 ) ; ‘ Then I read her a story , ’ said an actor 's wife , ‘ and Rupert listens , and then I show Rupert his little book ’ ’ [ Rupert being sixteen months old ] ( ibid . |
| 19 | Let him think that he 's getting away with it . |
| 20 | His big thing at the moment does n't seem to be women but some ruined castle down in Berkshire that he 's getting restored . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | If the client is confident that he 's getting the best deal from us , he will say , alright Birmingham ar are cheaper than York on a route improvement say , but I 've had one of their cheap jobs before . |
| 23 | There are two girl keepers who spend as much time as they can with him and are giving him so many titbits that he 's getting thoroughly spoiled . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I would imagine that he 's getting help off his parents , to be honest . |
| 26 | So that he 's getting |
| 27 | Steven Redgrave , so dead set on a third consecutive rowing gold that he 's trained through four months of a stomach illness that would put many of us in hospital . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've had a message from one of the members of the consortium that he 's providing a multi-lingual stenographer . |
| 29 | Bush is so certain that he 's lost The Big Three he has stopped campaigning there , concentrating on a dozen battleground states which could go either way . |
| 30 | So Taylor 's announcement that he 's to put his tactical paperwork in the office shredder and hand over the complete accounts ledger to Gascoigne is the most encouraging statement for English football since the surgeon passed Gazza 's knee A1 . |