Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [conj] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But more important than that , the title also represented a triumph in the battle against time which he has been waging since he learned that he might soon be forced to quit the Tour . |
| 2 | His performances on video and in the flesh at seminars are electrifying as he paces around , shirtsleeved and sweating , exhorting his audience to liberate themselves from old ways of thinking . |
| 3 | Very loudly ( ad for some time before ) , a tailor had been singing as he sat at a window in a comer of the yard . |
| 4 | When they could hold it no longer the Collector shouted the order to retire to the next door : that which led from the drawing-room to the hall and where , several weeks earlier , the Collector had been lurking as he tried to make up his mind to attend the meeting of the Krishnapur Poetry Society . |
| 5 | ‘ The locals are praying that he wants to stay in Santa Barbara forever . |
| 6 | A lot must have been happening while he had slept . |
| 7 | I realized he had been listening until he heard Catherine say she could not marry him . |
| 8 | He had heard from other prisoners ( he told Beltrami ) that a man called Ian Waddell had been boasting that he had taken part in the Ayr crime , and then , on a quite different charge , Waddell was sent to Barlinnie himself . |
| 9 | that 's where they 're going cos he said they he 's not actually for the itself |
| 10 | Erm , one thing some people do know that are in this room , and others do n't , and he 's quite embarrassed about this , on the way home from the conference , Matthew and I had a very , very bad accident , on the motorway and we 're both very , very lucky to have survived actually , erm , but erm , unfortunately during the course , well after the accident , Matthew was breathalysed and found to be over the limit and he 's in court actually in the Birmingham area on the twenty second of February , and we 're hoping that he gets off with a very light sentence , but er , we 're both very , very lucky to be here today . |
| 11 | The warning alert must have been sounding since he had broken into the room . |
| 12 | He tried to grasp what he had been rehearsing but he seemed to have lost it . |
| 13 | He would have been lying if he had recorded only the more accessible drama of the painter 's electric quarrels with Gauguin in the Yellow House in Arles , the distant necessary brother who supplied paint and love , the severed ear delivered to the whore in the brothel , the asylum fears . |
| 14 | DeVore might have been lying when he said he had no motive in helping her , but he was right about Mach wanting her dead . |
| 15 | Where had he been going when he left her ? |
| 16 | And what the hell had happened to the mild , gentle humour he 'd been displaying since he 'd arrived ? |
| 17 | It was of films like these that the exhibitor Sidney Bernstein may have been speaking when he said : |
| 18 | ‘ As far as Frank is concerned , he is entirely satisfied with what I am doing and he has given me the space to get on with it . |
| 19 | Now with this one the one we 've just done you do n't really know how far to go I mean I might have been going to ask erm how long has he been travelling if he 's been riding for a thousand hours . |
| 20 | please to hear it I 'm sure his dad would be fuming if he did drink and drive |
| 21 | And he seemed to be pretending that he had never touched her with his hot , wet mouth , anyway . |
| 22 | The stone referred to here is clearly a symbol of God rather than an embodiment of God , but at the same time it has an element of sacredness , which is what Gandhi may be implying when he maintains that God resides in the stone in a special way . |
| 23 | computers and that and er he left it and he just carried on talking about this that and the other , and he says right I 'm going and he went and he left the game , he 'd brought it down for the kids , he did n't say , you know |
| 24 | He appeared to be dozing because he did not notice her approach , nor open his eyes , until she had parted the branches and was looking down at him . |
| 25 | In fact … one of them was stuffing something through the wire and bars of his cage which they should n't be doing and he did n't much like it … |
| 26 | And while her heart swelled — could he be saying that he thought she was lovely ? — a few seconds later he was steering the Mercedes around a bend and was then at once driving to the other side of the road where a kind of lay-by had been cut into a high mass of rock . |
| 27 | What he ca n't be saying if he understands the system is , " 1 want to vote effectively both for my first-preference candidate and for my second or any lower preference " . |
| 28 | ‘ We should n't be asking whether he deserves his place . |
| 29 | You must prod him with coloured pencils , or tell him he must be joking when he makes heavy weather of something that another author does neatly . |
| 30 | He 'll still be playing when he goes under , he 'll be rattling his coffin to get out … or not out , that would suit him |