Example sentences of "he [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyways , its quite funny — Souness has been after all our midfielders at some stage ( except Strach AFAIK ) , now he s moving onto our reserves . |
| 2 | If he s standing on the half way line — picking his arse there s a good chance that he s not been told to do that . |
| 3 | There were pilots getting their aircraft away on two engines , with armourers hanging on underneath checking the bombs , incendiaries blazing and HE S exploding in all directions . |
| 4 | In the following pairs of examples , ( a ) represents normal placement and ( b ) contrastive : a ) I want to know where he s travelling to ( The word ‘ to ’ , being a preposition and not a lexical word , is not stressed. ) b ) ( I do nt want to know where he s travelling from ) I want to know where he s travelling |
| 5 | In the following pairs of examples , ( a ) represents normal placement and ( b ) contrastive : a ) I want to know where he s travelling to ( The word ‘ to ’ , being a preposition and not a lexical word , is not stressed. ) b ) ( I do nt want to know where he s travelling from ) I want to know where he s travelling |
| 6 | And now you can ask I can sort of ask you questions on it like if he 's been travelling for let's say If he 's if he 's covered sixty miles how long has he been riding for ? |
| 7 | Okay erm If he 's done two hundred miles , how long has he been riding for ? |
| 8 | Carrie flashed Seb a shy smile that , had he been looking at her , would have conveyed to him all the love she was feeling . |
| 9 | Only in his more recent work The Power of the Center , published in 1988 , has he been looking from art to the resources offered by psychology . |
| 10 | Thomas May 's earlier assumption would have been a perfectly natural one had he been dealing with a museum collection , but here at Templebrough , the sherds came from his own excavation , and the only conclusion to be drawn is that he had very little conception of the significance of stratified deposits . |
| 11 | What had he been thinking about ? |
| 12 | Had he been hoping for Doreen to arrive and say she was no longer interested in the large Hastings home and that she 'd be willing to live anywhere with him — even to work beside him out in the wilderness ? |
| 13 | In 1984 opinion polls showed that Ronald Reagan would have been decisively defeated had he been running for re-election in Britain . |
| 14 | a police officer , what 's he been doing for the last |
| 15 | ‘ I like the quiet of Beckenham , where no one bothers your balls , ’ said Dad , thinking that that was the end of the matter , as it would have been had he been talking to Mum . |
| 16 | ‘ How long has he been talking to you like that ? ’ |
| 17 | So whom had he been talking to ? |
| 18 | ‘ Had he been working on it ? |
| 19 | Has he been working for a long time ? |
| 20 | Had he been standing within striking distance , then , as her fury overflowed , Leith was fairly certain she would have hit him . |
| 21 | Well I thought it was interesting , the boss said yesterday at partnership board , and I suspect he been saying with David , that erm you know , the gap in provision for careers education and guidance in North Yorkshire , is training teachers . |
| 22 | Francie 's shoes were brilliant with polish but Finn 's were caked with mud — though where could he have been , had he been walking in the pleasure garden by himself , talking to the broken queen and patting the stone lioness on the head ? |
| 23 | Could he be thinking about his girlfriend ? |
| 24 | Will he be thinking of us when he spends his gold mancho that 's what he 'll get . |
| 25 | What would he be doing on a scientific installation ? ’ |
| 26 | What would he be doing at this moment ? |
| 27 | But what would he be doing in the middle of nowhere … unless he was keeping an eye on Mungo , to see that he was safe ? |
| 28 | Well I , I thi well if , if your boss checks it , what should he be checking for ? |
| 29 | Nor will he be standing for election as Institute vice president this year . |
| 30 | To cleanse us from sin , what type of sins in particular in the , would he be cleansing as at ? |