Example sentences of "he [be] [v-ing] i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is talking to me as if I could be a partner in his business : he is drawing me in . |
| 2 | I mean , we 've , I 've , there was a situation these are the roads he 's taking me around now , he had me reverse round the corner which was practically blind , could n't see what was round the corner , so I was edging round , and it was on a hill so I had to do it , every time I stopped I had to put the handbrake on so I did n't roll |
| 3 | So he 's taking me here tonight . |
| 4 | As a matter of fact , he 's taking me out to dinner tomorrow . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , he 's picking me up any minute , ’ Belinda answered Deana in a moment of daring wickedness . |
| 6 | He 's picking me up on my bus again . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's calling me soon , so I 'll invite him along . |
| 8 | Perhaps he 's watching me now from behind a tree … |
| 9 | He 's had a cancellation for a perm — he 's fitting me in . ’ |
| 10 | All right , I 'm , I 'm never speaking to you again because ever since you dumped him he 's been hanging around with us and he 's pissing me off ! |
| 11 | He 's making me out to be some sort of thick , brainless loony on a self-destruct road to ruin . |
| 12 | He 's tearing me apart , she thought , appalled . |
| 13 | if someone just says sort of , straight off and asks you especially if you you think , Ooh he 's asking me here maybe they 're not , maybe they are . |
| 14 | Hey he 's recording me here |
| 15 | he 's hitting me again |
| 16 | As I left my GP — he was passing me over to a surgeon — and he shook my hand and wished me luck — that in itself was a bad sign — neither the truth nor the meaning had really sunk in . |
| 17 | I was therefore concentrating very hard on what he was telling me when we both became aware of a sudden change in the atmosphere of the main office outside . |
| 18 | This was almost the first time the bloke had spoken to me about anything , never mind about 10,000m running , and here he was telling me how to run tactically . |
| 19 | However , to illustrate my belief that nothing has really changed , while I was taking a few notes from a caddie in Montpellier in the south of France — he was telling me how ‘ we 'd hit a great pitch in at the last ’ — I happened to notice the sign above the caddie shack . |
| 20 | ‘ And , say , he was telling me how in your mother 's day there were coal fires in every bedroom and how … ’ |
| 21 | In fact , he was telling me only the other week , about the the number of criminals that he knows , they 're serving their they 're serving sentences , and they 're only one thing they 're longing and hoping for , it is get out , so they can knock another old lady down , |
| 22 | Without speaking or smiling , he was holding me tightly round the waist , as if he would never let go . |
| 23 | But he was trying me out . |
| 24 | But facing me in the nets for two winters , he got to know my bowling inside out and by the end of our stay in Cape Town he was hammering me all around the practice area . |
| 25 | once and he was showing me how to do it , I could he hardly hit the |
| 26 | We used to build Lego together and make up stores about the fellows who lived in the Lego houses , and if Mike talked about me , people just thought he was making me up . |
| 27 | The next thing I knew he was pulling me up by my hair . |
| 28 | He was testing me out , leaving that cash lying about . |
| 29 | ‘ As he was knocking me all around the ring , ’ said Holyfield , ‘ I thought he 'll miss soon and maybe I 'll get the chance to knock him out . ’ |
| 30 | He was hitting me really hard . |