Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] [subord] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whit 's out , he 's phoning me when he gets back . |
| 2 | Books were obviously supernumerary , and he began jettisoning them until he got down to those two which every guest on ‘ Desert Island Discs ’ is furnished with as a bare , civilised minimum : the Bible and Shakespeare . |
| 3 | In Robb v Green [ 1895 ] 2 QB 315 the defendant , employed by the plaintiff as the manager of his business , surreptitiously copied from the plaintiff 's order book a list of names and addresses of customers with the intention of soliciting them after he had left employment and had set up a similar business on his own . |
| 4 | Rereading one before he put it in the envelope , it seemed to him to be ill-organized , to have no coherent theme . |
| 5 | In her motherly concerned way , she was cosseting him as he tried to pick up the pieces of his life . |
| 6 | He pulled sharply on the material , tearing it as he did so . |
| 7 | Directing the building of what appeared to be a large fortification , Ross was clearly enjoying himself as he laughed and joked with the children , as perfectly at ease in these casual , unsophisticated surroundings as he was in the cosmopolitan offices of a smart City boardroom . |
| 8 | So of course he had to keep smoking them until he 'd finished |
| 9 | He too is a man who goes out of his way to twist people 's tails in the hope of provoking them when he thinks their inactivity is impermissible . |
| 10 | I thought he was conning me when he told me his plan . |
| 11 | One of them would not mind sacrificing himself if he thought that the other is of more use to humanity , but sees no evidence of it . |
| 12 | I can see him now , and you three children comforting him because he had left his family in England ! |
| 13 | Roman did n't take kindly to any woman 's refusal , and he no doubt thought he was doing her an honour in wanting her when he thought she had belonged to Garry . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's such a jerk , ’ she remarked , remembering him as he left the breakfast table clad in the dark , light-weight suit which hung uneasily between an older idea of what was appropriate to the businessman and the current notion that , since it was no longer altogether cool to be a businessman , the person in the fast lane to wealth should appear relaxed and unconstrained . |
| 15 | His mother and grandfather were eyeing him as he emerged from the bed and felt the nag of their expectation that he would go off at once to earn a day 's wage at Aberfeldy . |
| 16 | For a second or two his eyes seemed to be searching her as he glanced at her dark , tightly fixed hair , her face , her shoulders and her long neck . |
| 17 | Police have been hunting him since he raped a girl of 11 at Warminster , Wilts , three weeks ago . |
| 18 | Jean-Paul thinks the French brought prosperity to a poor country , and he goes on believing it because he takes care never to set foot outside the European quarter . |
| 19 | A third party coming into possession of confidential information is accordingly liable to be restrained from publishing it if he knows the information to be confidential and the circumstances are such as to impose on him an obligation in good conscience not to publish . |
| 20 | But the terms were not equal , for his assailant bled from the head , under his conical helm and gorget of chain mail , and from some wounds under his plate-armour , also , for there were red seams in his body-harness , and he leaned to his right side , favouring it as he fought . |
| 21 | We had with us a Danakil from the Awash Station , not only as guide but also as hostage , and would not be releasing him until he found a replacement from the next tribe . |
| 22 | He unslung the gun case from across his chest , unzipping it as he gave Mariana a grin . |
| 23 | He never stopped worrying it once he had a bone . |
| 24 | The grain was too complex and cross for him , the blade stuck , and in the same instant Isambard stretched both arms over the boy 's shoulders and seized his hands , forcing them apart and wringing them until he twisted with pain and let go both the knife and the wood . |
| 25 | He tried to breathe slowly , calming himself as he waited . |
| 26 | Minutes later he was loving her completely , his thrusts deep inside her , his penetration so absolute , so wonderfully possessive that she closed around him instinctively , holding him where he belonged , within her for evermore . |
| 27 | She felt herself responding , trying not to think of red roses , and the staff nurse on Rainbow , trying to tell herself that he was kissing her because he wanted to , because he liked her . |
| 28 | Except for the little meanness about Claudine , his nasty trick of kissing her when he knew that Marie would see them . |
| 29 | She was deciding to devote herself to supporting him as he leapt from one peak to another . |
| 30 | In Portugal , Sporting Lisbon gave Bobby Robson a glimpse of the task facing him when he takes over as manager in the summer by losing 1–0 at home to Guimaraes . |