Example sentences of "he [be] [v-ing] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has he been taking lessons from the right hon. Member for Yeovil ( Mr. Ashdown ) in arm movements , or perhaps he is auditioning for a part in ’ Thunderbirds ’ ? |
| 2 | It was as though he were dictating material for a paper in one of the journals or addressing a class of senior students . |
| 3 | And beside him , an elderly priest in a black soutane was also holding up a thumb and laughing as though he were taking part in a particularly outrageous joke . |
| 4 | ‘ Hi John , ’ he said , with some slight suggestion of benevolence in his voice , as if he were taking Dyson on his staff in spite of a prison record . |
| 5 | as though he were sorting cards for a seance . |
| 6 | ‘ Father Tom , ’ he said , as if he were meeting Carey for the first time for a long time . |
| 7 | Putting his left arm round Donald 's shoulder , he took advantage of his first relaxation from the spasm of pain , to raise the glass to his lips , push his head back and , as if he were administering medicine to Maisie , roll the fluid past the perfectly kept teeth . |
| 8 | He smiled at her and said , ‘ Buenos dias , señorita , ’ as blithely as if he were bringing breakfast to her room in a Costa del Sol hotel . |
| 9 | He looked noble , as though he were saying goodbye before catching a troop ship to almost certain death on some foreign front . |
| 10 | That , in any case , as he had mentioned to no one , had itself lately become uncertain , as though he were losing control of his arm and his brain . |
| 11 | She sighed erotically in his ear , as the tips of his fingers explored between her mature quim-lips to run the whole length of her crack as if he were playing scales on a piano . |
| 12 | However , it must be stressed that it is a question of fact in each individual transaction , and the question one has to ask objectively in every single situation is whether the purchaser is merely selecting specific assets for the use in his own business or whether he is buying assets in order that he can carry on the business in succession to and in place of the vendor . |
| 13 | His wounded country needs time and international tolerance to recover and , accepting the inevitable , he is buying time with a series of compromises . |
| 14 | I would n't like to say he is using Saeed as a weapon against me . |
| 15 | The reader who believes he is learning things about Imperial Ethiopia may be equally inclined to tell himself that this is a country of the mind , constructed on principles not very different from those of the Samuel Johnson who devised , for the Abyssinia of Rasselas , just representations of general truths and of a common humanity . |
| 16 | Bruno was razor sharp himself as he added : ‘ He is earning money over here and buying houses in Canada . |
| 17 | God is establishing a Kingdom , therefore , into which he is calling people from every country , race and class . |
| 18 | He does not know he is taking part in a battle . |
| 19 | Denied the opportunity of supervising a major programme of construction in New York , where the Whitney Museum 's trustees have been unable to agree Michael Graves 's proposal for an extension , he is taking responsibility for the final stages of the conversion , now estimated to cost $35 million , of an ornamental warehouse located on Pittsburgh 's North Side , which will accommodate the museum . |
| 20 | Although UCTA does not say so , the section must here only be dealing with sales or hire purchase of goods made to the consumer in the course of a business , because s 6(2) only protects persons dealing as consumers , and a person can only deal as a consumer if the person with whom he is dealing deals in his turn in the course of a business . |
| 21 | Perhaps , however , we must think of the postman as having a seemingly well founded belief that he is delivering letters to real people . |
| 22 | Oh yes and er the I pass all the correspondence I have to the County Planning Officer who deals with it with the most enormous efficiency and I hope that he is maintaining liaison with what I call the Rucatse Group which consists of , Neil and Tony and somebody from Crawley who is I think it 's |
| 23 | He is in prison for committing violent crimes against English imperialism and he is demanding status as a political prisoner . |
| 24 | He is telling Larry about his whippets . |
| 25 | The man is a rogue , he stole from his own firm and now that he is serving time in Swansea Prison , I could never allow him near you , let alone marry you . ’ |
| 26 | Alan Cooke and Carl Prean scored two wins each , with Prean again suggesting he is pushing Cooke for the England No.1 position . |
| 27 | ‘ He is seeking compensation for the distress and inconvenience . ’ |
| 28 | He is seeking help in building up a stock of frames . |
| 29 | He is seeking help in building up a stock of the frames . |
| 30 | Mr Clinton might say in June that he is renewing MFN until 1994 ; that he is looking at the application of other American laws to areas like weapons proliferation and trade abuses ; and that he is starting some ( as yet murky ) process to ensure that the Chinese are discharging their obligations under human-rights treaties . |