Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I believe we lost them all the moment he began lying to me — which would have been about four hours after he first climbed into bed somewhere strange , with someone else . |
| 32 | At the same moment he made stabbing movements , at shoulder height , with the bat . |
| 33 | For a moment he stood gazing balefully at the Corsican 's back as he turned away to pass on down the line . |
| 34 | For a moment he considered activating article 16 of the constitution , which granted the president emergency powers . |
| 35 | For a moment he sat watching her , an oddly intense look in those dark probing eyes of his . |
| 36 | In the farmhouse he practised putting on the gaiters and found it a struggle . |
| 37 | kept checking up on people 's like erm capabilities as well instead of getting on with his own job he kept checking up on their them all as well . |
| 38 | yeah , yeah , soon I 'll call you logo he went running |
| 39 | As we rode towards London , one of Mandeville 's secretaries unfurled the pennant on a pole he carried bearing the royal arms of England , showing all and sundry that we carried the King 's own warrant . |
| 40 | tight trousers he kept saying . |
| 41 | When he had leisure he went bicycling to Lincolnshire village churches . |
| 42 | And so he 's the one who started doing this — I do n't know if you remember Rolling Stone during that period he started getting slight , not really new wave , but we used some of the constructivist thing of breaking pages somewhat and pushing things on angles or erm My favourite was his Bob Dylan spread which actually I did , but it was based on what he was trying to get me to do , where everything read left to right and everything was , you know , point sizes lined up and everything was on a column grid , but it was , when you looked at it you had to , you know , like focus on it . |
| 43 | This was supported by the correlation between the male 's condition at the start of the season and the number of days he spent incubating eggs . |
| 44 | After a few days he started telling us about the year spent in isolation . |
| 45 | Removing the wrapping he began pressing the plastic explosive tightly around the rivet line . |
| 46 | He spoke lightly , but in truth he dreaded having to face Sharpe in a dawn duel . |
| 47 | and all of a sudden he keeps going I 'll cover you |
| 48 | he here 's a Pat Boone record or something and all of a sudden he started dancing to all this and the old black bloke comes in and says oh my life , he could n't get any of the old blokes . |
| 49 | As a palaeographer he enjoyed reproducing ancient scripts using implements of his own devising , just as an archaeologist he sought a deeper insight into ornaments by drawing them or even carving them with his own hands . |
| 50 | Lord Tebbit said : ‘ That is pretty silly of Mr Heath considering the years he spent trying to persuade people to vote against Lady Thatcher . |
| 51 | ‘ Other than dying , nothing more terrible than one of your kind getting her claws into him and then refusing to let go over all the years he spent struggling to free himself . ’ |
| 52 | Outside the court room he told waiting reporters , ‘ I resent Blackie being branded a playdog by the gutter press . |
| 53 | His son Alf , the skinhead , had said that he would personally strangle any Muslim he found messing with his wife , adding that if Tehran was such a great place why did n't the bastards go back there ? |
| 54 | Florian 's face had lit up and the questions he started asking fizzed with enthusiasm , but Maria knew that the exchange would only drive his restlessness into temporary remission , not cure it . |
| 55 | It was worth it just to see the fun he had going round in circles on a toy fire engine . |
| 56 | He had dropped me a note the day he left advising me to sell , so sell I did , but despite many hours spent traipsing round the East End I could only find one interested party : Mr Cohen , who had for some years conducted his tailor 's business from above my father 's shop and wanted to expand . |
| 57 | We had tenants in the house and one day he went missing upstairs and found a bag of lipstick , eye-liner and face powder , and decided it would be a good idea to plaster his face with it . |
| 58 | One day he went missing , and the producer went in search of him , eventually catching sight of his Rolls-Royce parked outside a bar . |
| 59 | Pathologist Dr John McCarthy said Mr Topp had probably drowned on the day he went missing . |
| 60 | One resident I spoke to , whose house is immediately on the zebra crossing , reports that every day he dreads hearing the squealing of bl brakes and looking out of his window . |