Example sentences of "he [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waugh himself ca n't be blamed for the wrenching out of a context that might have helped us to understand whether he is referring to unhappy women , rendered so by not being content with their lot , or men , who are now being forced to lend a hand with the Hoover . |
| 2 | In these circumstances it is sufficient for the broker to disclose to the customer that he is acting as principal , provided that he does not charge commission . |
| 3 | Spasticity can also cause pain anywhere in the hemiplegic side : the pain may occur when associated reactions happen , for instance when the patient is asleep , or when he is moving without proper control . |
| 4 | What Stephen says and what Stephen thinks begin to merge because the punctuation mark that indicates ‘ now my character speaks ’ is missing.Joyce does use the dash , however , to show that he is moving from descriptive narrative to direct expression . |
| 5 | Following the completion of the acquisition of Framlington 's private client fund management business in January and the recruitment of five new investment managers in Liverpool , he is looking for increased investment revenues in this year . |
| 6 | Will the right hon. Gentleman say what support he is receiving from other G7 countries for his recent endorsement of a rouble stabilisation fund ? |
| 7 | Bill Walker , MP for Tayside North , said : ‘ He is living on borrowed time . ’ |
| 8 | Still , he feels that the waiters know that he comes from Dearborn and they can see that in his cashmere tweed jacket he is sailing under false colours . |
| 9 | He is calling for good conditions for traders at the new pitches in Tarleton Street , Williamson Square and Paradise Street . |
| 10 | O'Leary is in the second year of a leisure management course at West London Institute where he says he is adjusting to minor celebrity status . |
| 11 | Jones seems to have found elements of the trend of thought he is pursuing in modern Western culture , for example in Owen Barfield , Loren Eiseley , Michael Polanyi and Peter Ouspensky . |
| 12 | It is sometimes argued that an experienced programmer can detect the ‘ general shape ’ of a particular high-level language X from blocks of machine code , just by hunch and judgement , but this ignores the possibility that the code may have been written in language Y with the syntactic style of X precisely in order to create this confusion ; just as one can murmur English with a German intonation and cause a distant listener to believe he is listening to unintelligible German . |
| 13 | He is staying with Christian friends during term-time , where he is being really loved and cared for by them . |
| 14 | Murphy , who was 39 last week , recently announced that he was making his original partner , Helen Cree , managing director , although he is staying as executive chairman to concentrate on growing the business , particularly in the financial sector , and improving quality . |
| 15 | NICKY MASON , ranked No.5 , showed during England 's outstanding 5-1 victory over the Soviet Union at Worthing on Thursday night that he is pushing for regular inclusion in the England team . |
| 16 | He is pushing for initial funding of $A5 million rising to $A15 million in three years . |
| 17 | He is aiming for full employment by Keynesian means , redistribution of wealth through jobs , not taxes . |
| 18 | The presiding officer must decide , when a person tries to vote , if he is suffering from mental illness , is subnormal , intoxicated and so lacks the capacity to understand what he is doing . |
| 19 | He is suffering from senile dementia : the deterioration of a super brain . |
| 20 | The lack of analysis of specific songs in Adorno 's writings means that it is impossible to know whether he is talking about real pieces or , more likely , ideal types . |
| 21 | I would like to point out that when your Alexander teacher talks about ‘ unreliable feelings ’ he is talking about sensory feelings and not emotions or intuition ( a point that has confused many people in the past ) . |
| 22 | He is talking about social ecology on Tuesday 12 May at Lady Mitchell Hall , Sidgwick Avenue , Cambridge ; on 14 May at Bristol University Students ' Union in Queens Road ; on Monday 18 May at the Beckett Lecture Theatre of Leeds University in Woodhouse Lane ; and on Thursday 21 May at St James ' Church , Piccadilly , in London . |
| 23 | He is talking about senior managers at Thames Water . |
| 24 | This summer he is going to American in the hopes of meeting Darlene from Roseanne . |
| 25 | Team owner Frank Williams must have watched his pit lane monitor with a mixture of delight and dismay as the star he is losing to Indy Car racing ripped up the record books . |
| 26 | However , the developer of the Replix software , Dr Hikyu Lee , who had been president of Samsung Software , has picked up the rights to it and moved it to SoftLinks Inc , a new operation he is starting with ex-Data General Corp staffer John Doyle as vice-president , sales and marketing . |
| 27 | Lenders to the bidder who require the target and its subsidiaries to provide authorised financial assistance under CA 1985 , s155 ( see para 22.1.7 below ) , without the prospect of minority opposition , may prefer a Court Scheme for this reason , as may the bidder if he is paying for costly bridging finance in the interim . |
| 28 | He is walking about Nice with dark glasses and bruises . |
| 29 | Thus it is that the Masters and Augusta are always spoken of in reverential tones , each contestant being made to feel that he is walking on hallowed ground in close communion with the saints of the game . |
| 30 | He is applying for judicial review of a decision by the council 's professional conduct committee to prefer the less serious charge of breach of proper professional standards , which leads to an admonition . |