Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [adv] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if she was , perhaps he ought not be trying to murder her ? |
| 2 | When the assistant is serving you , he may also be serving two or three other people at the same time and holding a conversation with yet another . |
| 3 | He could be working something out , but he may just be enjoying emotional relaxation and a purely sensory level of play . |
| 4 | In this respect he was faithful to the specific teaching of the Gītā on the need for detached or selfless action , and he may well be reflecting the stress on dharma , or duty , characteristic of the Hindu tradition and which received particular emphasis in the Buddhist tradition . |
| 5 | He had grown accustomed , even in the work of supposedly enlightened anthropologists , to terms such as ‘ savage ’ , ‘ lower races ’ , and ‘ inferior races ’ , so that when he speaks of ‘ inequality ’ , he may well be thinking of a vertical model , though he may mean simply ‘ difference ’ when he writes that |
| 6 | In assuming the mantle of David and writing his own psalms , he may even be expressing in this work a sense of identification with David as a type of Christ . |
| 7 | He may even be charging the Night Goblin unit , for example . |
| 8 | He may even be dying . |
| 9 | While he may not be collecting as actively as he was a few years ago , his name still inspires sufficient awe in most art world people for them to request complete anonymity when discussing him . |
| 10 | ‘ He may not be leading her on . |
| 11 | Or he may simply be taking a highly speculative position . |
| 12 | An examination of the client 's hesitance , however , indicates that he is not at all sure about the terminology and that he may simply be echoing the wording of the charge . |
| 13 | Indeed , if the effect of the exchange 's rules is only that the member is liable to other members ( or the clearing house ) as a principal , he may actually be dealing as an agent in any event , and his client may be able to read through the contract to the market . |
| 14 | He told Husband he 'd have to consult with the rest of the private Office and maybe even the PM before he could agree to them interrogating you ; he may actually be doing that , for all I know , though I think it 's more likely he 's been waiting for his temper to cool before he briefs you . |
| 15 | Sole has retired from rugby at the age of 30 , when prop forwards such as he should just be coming to their prime . |
| 16 | This may be true , but he should not be clouding the issue with irrelevant gibes at the ‘ competition . ’ |
| 17 | With the exception of Michael Colborne , everyone within the palace was telling Charles that he should not be getting involved . |
| 18 | He accused Sir Patrick of failing to address ‘ the real issues of the province ’ and said he should not be attending tomorrow 's meeting of the Anglo-Irish conference in Dublin . |
| 19 | His tribute was meant for Alex and Mary McLaggan , but as he sang he half turned towards Jean , he could not keep his look away from her , and as the words enveloped her she felt herself choking in a warm cocoon , her cheeks burned unbearably , he should not be doing this , it was too much in front of so many friends and strangers . |
| 20 | By rights , he should not be playing next week . |
| 21 | If he really supports the work of the east London TEC , he should not be saying that firms should not spend 0.5 per cent . |
| 22 | Philip knew he should n't be touching it . |
| 23 | Sorting out what he should n't be sorting out |
| 24 | Whatever , when he arrived at the Ring , Niki was pilloried in the sporting press for his opposition to a great track in which all the other champions had raced : if he was so craven-hearted , they said , he should n't be racing . |
| 25 | I was n't there trying to tell him that he was doing something wrong or that he should n't be doing it . |
| 26 | anything he can find that he knows he should n't be doing like pulling things out the freezer and then the fridge and and pulling the cooker door down and |
| 27 | He should n't be walking the streets . ’ |
| 28 | He should n't be talking to a newspaper . |
| 29 | I do n't think he should really be telling me all this , but he is demob happy and there is something of the anonymity of the confessional in this dimly lit train compartment , lurching slowly over the snowy plateau of the Kola Peninsula . |
| 30 | He 's always fore he 's forever contrasting er these these er centres in Highfields with his village halls and er small village halls and that and that 's very , the very truth , I 'd like to refer him and he knows as well as I do that what he should really be comparing with are the youth and community provision across the county which is an enormous amount in excess of the amount we put into old people 's homes and as Mr so rightly said , they 're problems were gon na have to grapple with in the future and so you then look at what has been suggested , what has been proposed and the point that Professor made about the Labour party having to make it work , is because it is they and everybody knows it 's they have been five membering this thing all the way through . |