Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [be] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so something erm I mean it , it just seems strange to me that , you know , something which has exist existed for thousands of years , you know , he 's suddenly sort of pooh-poohing so to speak , erm and I mean obviously the fact that there was a revolution twenty years later or whatever erm me means that something must have been wrong but erm you know i it 's strange how he 's suddenly criticizing and how the criticism has n't come before , how nothing 's happened before , how this seems an opportune moment for it to happen . |
| 2 | He said he had connections with the music industry and how he was always having famous musicians and producers sitting in the back of his cab . |
| 3 | What's-His-Name , English lecturer , second year , that course on the Nineteenth Century Novel … remember how he was always wittering on about Incest in Wuthering Heights ? ’ |
| 4 | The novelist Jack Trevor Story describes how he was once seeking a copy of an early book of his , The Trouble with Harry . |
| 5 | The way you looked at him and how he was continually glancing at you told me it had been love at first sight . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Like kicking the St Bernard when he 's only trying to help . ’ |
| 7 | He finally bowed to the inevitable after 61 minutes , when he was visibly hobbling around . |
| 8 | An example is the appalling tragedy of lorry driver Leslie Parsons , who was killed last February when he was just doing his job . |
| 9 | She feels it 's sad that Frankie died at a time when he was just becoming popular with a younger audience . |
| 10 | Menem , who later claimed that his action had been taken in the long-term interests of national unity and reconciliation , was immediately accused of double standards in releasing the former officers when he was simultaneously demanding the severest penalties for those involved in the latest rebellion . |
| 11 | Then the next morning when he was still sleeping it off , Doris 'd go off to the pub herself and have a few , and bring back a quart of mild , and they 'd get drunk again together . |
| 12 | Sex had brought them together , bound them through the difficult and dangerous years when he was actively opposing the authorities . |
| 13 | Looking back on the period when he was seriously searching as a fourteen-year-old ( and for a man with a mind of Russell 's breadth this was no ‘ mere adolescence ’ ) , he described it like this : |
| 14 | However he was soon scoring hundreds for Beckenham and enjoying wandering club cricket with the Yellowhammers . |
| 15 | And , as officials at Lord 's were criticised for their harsh treatment of the player , Lamb was celebrating in Cape Town where he is currently playing for Western Province . |
| 16 | Makhoul 's own history reflects these elements : Palestinian , born in Israel , studied art there and in England , where he 's now living . |
| 17 | Erm I tried phoning James the the place where he 's actually doing this training course . |
| 18 | Dr Newcombe put him in touch with the ACE centre in Oxford , where he 's painstakingly learning how to read and write again . |
| 19 | Because th th th th there , there 'd been statements from Mao until the end of nineteen forty five where he 's still talking about land to the tiller being some way off |
| 20 | Of the other parties , the Independent Smallholders ' Party ( which had won 57 per cent of the vote in the last free election in 1945 — see p. 7600 ) , led by Istvan Prepeliczay , advocated the return of collectivized land to its owners as listed in the 1947 land register ; the Hungarian Socialist Party ( HSP ) was established in October 1989 [ see p. 36960-61 ] as the reformed successor to the Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party ( HSWP ) and currently claimed 50,000-60,000 members , the first candidate on its national list being Imre Poszgay , who had acted as a catalyst for many of the reforms but who came third in the constituency where he was also standing ; and the League of Young Democrats ( FIDESZ ) , led by Viktor Orban and claiming 5,000 members , was closely allied to the SzDSz . |
| 21 | On that first Broadway night I had stood in the wings where he was absent-mindedly fondling the breasts of his frizzy-haired admirer , and to me he had looked just like any other dirty old man ; but then , as the royal fanfare sounded , he had twitched his grey gown , given me a wink , and walked into the stage 's glare . |
| 22 | These he made as aquatints , and the next series followed in 1796 — Series of Picturesque Views of the North of England , where by 1796 , the survey over , he informed the public that he was leaving behind his previous work and going to be a drawing master once again , but at 3 Lad Lane where he was again living with Hartley his half-brother . |
| 23 | Going to the chair where he was already dropping off to sleep , she gently pulled him to his feet and began peeling the clothes from his back . |
| 24 | In the circles where he was now moving , a mixture of the artistic and homosexual worlds , corduroy was the smart thing : working-men 's clothes adopted as a badge of nonconformity and made fashionable , just as happened years later with blue jeans . |
| 25 | But the marriage of Benjamin and Elizabeth took place neither there , nor in the City where he was then living , but back in the parish where he had been born : St George 's in the East , Stepney . |
| 26 | I was passing over a hill when Idris drove past me , hooting , and pointing to the valley where he was obviously going to wait for me . |
| 27 | The next time I met him was under an awning in the Campo San Polo in Venice , where he was quietly discoursing to a bunch of very young German anarcho-punks . |
| 28 | That is why he is now writing a book for the ‘ home cook ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ Thank you , ’ she said , wondering why he was still holding her hand . |