Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [be] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He refused to answer questions , however , on the grounds that they were related to the criminal charges upon which he was currently facing trial . |
| 32 | The someone , who was , of course , Dr Neil , struck a Swan Vesta to light the oil-lamp which always stood on a side-table where he usually kept the book which he was currently reading . |
| 33 | He was young and madly enthusiastic for all things meteorological , with the exception of the teleprinter which he was always messing up , getting the paper stuck and so on , and leaving us to sort it out when we came on duty . |
| 34 | So vivid was her imagination that she became adept at having conversations with him in which he was always making her laugh , always being to her the sort of person she longed to have as a life companion . |
| 35 | As Wilfred Owen moves into the second stanza he takes on the bigger issue of what he is really trying to say . |
| 36 | So if y if you 're manoeuvring round him and he suddenly changes his mind we 're compounding what he is actually doing , by getting assuming that he 's gon na do the right thing . |
| 37 | My concern is with the nature of his reputation , and the striking extent to which both his admirers and his detractors are unable to agree on what kind of writer Derrida is , or even what he is actually saying . |
| 38 | What he is mainly denying when he denies that there are final causes in nature is that the existence of each individual sort of thing is to be explained by its serving some cause beyond it , in particular some kind of human interest . |
| 39 | We just got a little boy here called Wayne and he do n't know what he 's fucking talking about . |
| 40 | And the rewards then would be that erm from the interviewers point of view he be you know viewed as more intelligent , self-confident , industrious all this sort of thing , make him say determined , erm more understandable to the interviewer obviously , and also the there He 's more likely to be well liked by the interviewer , and that 's Because of that not only his voice but the content of what he 's actually saying is gon na be more favourably looked upon . |
| 41 | So he suddenly found that he preferred to write poems but what he 's actually saying in that essay , is that he thinks poems are living things , just as animals are and that they 're they 're difficult to catch . |
| 42 | What he 's talking about and this is the same erm same councillor who was talking about living harmoniously side by side those that have are are buying them , those that are renting them but what he 's actually saying is well I 'm actually very , very sorry but if you have n't a job , if you have n't an income or you 're income is so low , just go over there and stay away from us decent chaps with lots of cash . |
| 43 | And I think I think the reconciliation what he 's actually saying is he has n't got time to recheck those reconciliations before this weekend 's deadline that 's what it appears to be . |
| 44 | And he finishes off this poem with a description of what he 's now writing . |
| 45 | I do n't think that there 's any way he can realise what he put me through … what he 's still putting me through . |
| 46 | What he 's really saying is that he does n't know the answer to the question ! |
| 47 | Can I just say , what he 's really saying between the lines is , are we really saying that these few hundred people might be a necessary sacrifice to produce a greying plan to redevelop ? . |
| 48 | honourable member what he 's really saying as I understand it Madam Speaker is there 's too much bureaucracy and the bureaucracy is going to prevent anybody acting because they 're all overlapping , they 're all paid out of presumably the public purse as well , there 's a there 's a enormous number of public off officials that is preventing er a a clear direct , exes executive arm . |
| 49 | If we just go back to , to what we 've just said and read the first paragraph , wh what he 's really saying here is that a revolution is taking place |
| 50 | ‘ It 's what he 's always telling me . |
| 51 | What he was probably saying was that he could not get more money unless he did a lot more teaching , whereas his heart was in his research . |
| 52 | What he was also wondering was whether Harriet had received any letters of the kind received by Tom Fearon and if so , whether she had kept them ? |
| 53 | He had a curious way of stressing words in the wrong place , sometimes swallowing them completely , but there was a hypnotic singsong quality to his voice which made it very hard to concentrate on what he was actually saying . |
| 54 | She was so pleased that he was able to talk so frivolously that she hardly distinguished what he was actually saying . |
| 55 | What he was actually talking about was the application of the lex Iulia et Papia ; and what he meant no doubt was that , for the purposes of those statutes , the rules expressed for legacies apply to trusts and gifts upon death too . |
| 56 | I will because Mr Mayor I think that councillor started off his response to this by talking about ghettos and a lot of differences between the better off and the worst off and I , the feeling I got from his speech was that what he was actually driving at was he was attempting to perpetuate the class distinction that the Labour party have been so bound up with over the years . |
| 57 | Apparently what he was really thinking of was ‘ The man who changed the political colour of Newbury ’ which did n't sound too bad . |
| 58 | He went on to outline their current deals , leaning back in his chair , hands behind his dark head , but what he was really outlining to her was his power : he meant her to know that he was already too firmly entrenched , handling every top account at Swift , all over the world . |
| 59 | The American ambassador sent his CIA station chief to ask Walters what he was really doing in Morocco at this of all time Walters insisted that his visit had nothing to do with the Shah . |
| 60 | The fact that she did n't know what he was really feeling — and then she had closed the door on ever finding out . |