Example sentences of "he be [v-ing] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is wearing only the pads and a pink jockstrap . |
| 2 | He is emanating quite a powerful golden light himself , he notices . |
| 3 | From these sources he is piecing together the vocabulary and grammar of Gothic . |
| 4 | When Florence of Worcester draws elements of his account of the battle of Assandun in 1016 from Sallust he is revealing quite a lot about the classical interests of twelfth-century historians , but also raising doubts about his own reliability , and William of Malmesbury , whose methods so often find favour with modern scholars , nevertheless records miracle stories which his critical faculties ought to have led him to doubt , and perhaps did ; and like historians of all periods , William , Florence and their colleagues were at the mercy of the bias and inadequacy of their sources , as well as their own prejudices and errors . |
| 5 | Kant does not think he is putting forward a doctrine on the basis of which ordinary morality can be criticised , but that he has formulated the principles by which all good people implicitly know they should , and in their hearts do , judge their conduct . |
| 6 | In addition , with a don at the University of Sussex , he is putting together a book on the experience of being European . |
| 7 | He can not understand that he is waiting only a matter of moments before his desire will be satisfied . |
| 8 | He 's wearing only a new white dhoti and his body looks old , its loose flesh striated with veins and sinews . |
| 9 | As well as the speed , he 's getting quite a taste for the adulation from friends and relatives . |
| 10 | what he , he 's moving , he 's moving actually a bit more towards the East End model in Glasgow |
| 11 | but I mean I can see that for he 's got , he 's doing exactly the same , literally a capital K in the middle of joined writing |
| 12 | He 's doing quite a few weekends on duty , to earn a bit of money . |
| 13 | So he 's standing right the other |
| 14 | The famous Asshe charm was in full spate ; he was leaning forward a little , his eyes , flashing their old fire , fixed on hers . |
| 15 | He was using just a small group — a sax player , a keyboard player , bass and drums , as I recall — and he was really wailing . |
| 16 | He was looking skywards the way he did as a player : he would flick at the ball with the outside of his left foot while leaning back looking at the sky . |
| 17 | Abruptly she looked away from him , painfully aware that he was speaking only the truth . |
| 18 | That he was speaking only the truth simply served to infuriate her all the more . |
| 19 | He was wearing only a sleeveless vest and a pair of short pants that reached almost to his bony knees . |
| 20 | He was remembering again the time when he returned to England fifteen years ago from the tropical island on which he had been left . |
| 21 | By the time he was eighteen , he was earning quite a lot of money as a medium . |
| 22 | He was firing deliberately a bit wide , I thought , to scare rather than to hit me , for at that sort of range anyone with a rifle — unless he were truly an appalling shot — could scarcely miss . |
| 23 | The guitar was not a suitable instrument for this piece and Alice could see that he was providing only a background strumming . |
| 24 | The hon. Member for Norfolk , North ( Mr. Howell ) said that VAT should be increased : I suspect that he was giving away a secret Tory agenda . |
| 25 | ‘ You know he was making rather a set at Paul Gray . ’ |
| 26 | With eights and nines off his card , he was making mostly the same numbers as everyone else , just in a different way and order . |
| 27 | He was sitting just a matter of inches away , when he moved to reach for a coffee-cup she caught the smell of freshly washed hair , and her fingers itched with the memory of tangling themselves in those jet-black waves . |
| 28 | She spotted Adam almost as soon as she entered the club , but though he was sitting only a short distance away with a stocky sandy-haired man she did n't recognise , it took her some time to reach his table , since she was obliged to stop at every few strides to talk to customers . |
| 29 | After many months of careful observation he realized that he was doing exactly the same thing while talking , but to a much lesser extent , and that was why his speaking habits had gone undetected . |
| 30 | He was doing quite a lot of this , I noted . |