Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [pron] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hates me coming here . |
| 2 | As well as writing soundtracks — his latest , the music for a TV documentary on the architect Frank Lloyd Wright — he busies himself playing with no less than three other outfits . |
| 3 | He defends himself saying that ‘ for nearly thirty years ’ he has been using black and white and that , what is more , the Documenta logo was also black and white . |
| 4 | But he has one failing . |
| 5 | He has his failing however , I am sorry to say , the particulars of which I will explain when we meet . |
| 6 | Well he has someone saying that describing away and they say right they and just like jump off the page and start moving round the room . |
| 7 | that up of a night and he has it going all night |
| 8 | Oh yes he does , he needs them measuring . |
| 9 | he wants , he wants somebody looking at him and saying well |
| 10 | He wants everyone pointing in the same direction , and that means a common culture and a common status . |
| 11 | He says its going to be close . |
| 12 | He tests it using data from a number of different countries over the same time period , reasoning that if equation ( 6.1 ) were true , then those countries in which aggregate demand has been highly unpredictable should be those countries in which unpredictable aggregate demand has little effect on real output . |
| 13 | And at once she remembers Columbus , he envisions her remembering him , the invisible man who dreams of entering the invisible world , the unknown and perhaps even unknowable world beyond the edge of things , beyond the stone bowl of the everyday , beyond the thick blood of the sea . |
| 14 | Peter Lovesey , whose Victorian police procedural novels featuring Sergeant Cribb are fine examples of this branch of the art , has summed it up neatly in saying that he sees himself writing books that are " a counterpoise of teacups and terror " . |
| 15 | He sees himself crossing the road — deftly , like a native , knowing exactly which way to look for the traffic . |
| 16 | He identifies himself with the prophets of the Old Testament in addressing contemporary life , and echoes St Paul when he sees himself keeping the streams of doctrine pure : ‘ For I am inquisitive in the Lord , and defend the philosophy of the scripture against vain deceit ’ ( A130 ) . |
| 17 | He sees me watching him . |
| 18 | ‘ Fine by me , but wo n't Bryant smell a rat when he sees me walking out with all this ? ’ |
| 19 | And obviously the Kuomintang are rather s s he sees them standing in their way or |
| 20 | Tony gets under the bed when he sees him coming . |
| 21 | Roger : Yeah — but it 's all right 'cos he still ca n't do anything if he sees us mucking about . |
| 22 | He 's not Robinson Crusoe , there are other old newspaper owners so he will say okay the government in Australia is doing what I like , therefore my newspapers or usually most of my newspapers , in fact one or two of them wo n't , will support that government and that government can be totally different one in the United States where in the Washington Post or you know in the New York Post or whatever will go and attack or support because he thinks it 's in the less interest that his commercial interest and the U S because he sees us doing the same thing there . |
| 23 | ‘ Dunbar 's coming over and he 'll have fifty fits if he sees you holding Harry 's hand . |
| 24 | ‘ God , Nurse , ’ Ted exclaimed virtuously , ‘ There 's nothing for a hot-blooded sinner like me to do when he sees you coming , except close his eyes and pray for continence . ’ |
| 25 | so they 're trying to corner it and it 's munching on grass quite happily , you could see it was watching a minute , but it was watching them away and I think er any minute it 's looking out the corner of its eye and then it 's just gon na go when he sees it getting closer . |
| 26 | HE WO N'T cut the exchange rate of the over-valued pound because in his daydreams he sees it replacing the German mark as the strongest currency . |
| 27 | ‘ Well that 's the way things are goin' over here , and that 's the way he sees it goin' in the future , under the Government constraints he outlined at that meetin' . ’ |
| 28 | He hears me singing , and so learns where I am imprisoned … . |
| 29 | I do n't mind if he hears us coming . |
| 30 | He goes to work , and when he arrives he gets it working ; when he leaves , at the end of the day , it sleeps until the next morning . |