Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [conj] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he ca n't be saying if he understands the system is , " 1 want to vote effectively both for my first-preference candidate and for my second or any lower preference " . |
| 2 | The dinosaurs were spying as he replaced the book . |
| 3 | Maybe not everything … but he 's lying when he says the Darkfall has passed . |
| 4 | And given his own class position , as an émigré from the upper middle-class , a class serviced by the domestic labour of the working class , it is telling that he understands the contribution of coal to his class comfort , but does n't discuss the contribution of that other " service " , domestic service . |
| 5 | Now his heart was thumping as he turned the elevating screw past five degrees . |
| 6 | Gasping , momentarily blinded by the water in her eyes , she became conscious of Niall , treading water beside her , of his dark hair , plastered against his head , of his bronzed , naked chest against which her own head was resting as he let the water take her weight , drawing her towards him . |
| 7 | Parks claimed that he was n't even aware of what was happening till he heard the door slam shut as the thieves made their escape . |
| 8 | The Iranian 's hand was trembling as he lifted the handset from its cradle . |
| 9 | Azadi was trembling as he replaced the handset of the telephone . |
| 10 | He was frowning as he took the victor downstairs to Harry . |
| 11 | William Empson has commented , " I find it a completely achieved poem ; probably Coleridge was lying when he told the story of the person from Porlock , nearly twenty years later … " |
| 12 | I visited a college there in , in that offshore island in the Indian Ocean and met the principal of that theological college and I said to him , I asked him how the college was going and he gave the same blandness to his answer as to my question and then he said of his theological college we are still training an aristocracy for the church and ensuring the inertia of the people of God . |
| 13 | He had a blinding headache and simply was n't thinking of what he was doing as he swung the car off the slip road to enter the motorway . |
| 14 | Sarah was crying as he lifted the heavy body into his arms . |
| 15 | When Talbot returned to the bridge he could see the marker buoy just astern , bobbing gently in the very small wake Van Gelder was creating as he edged the Ariadne gently to the north-west . |
| 16 | He was muttering as he elbowed the nurse away from a malfunctioning VDU . |
| 17 | Miss Bond , who was standing when he entered the room , was the perfect complement to Beryl , plump instead of lean , dainty instead of gaunt , amiable instead of forbidding . |
| 18 | He was talking as he led the way along a narrow hall , mounting the staircase to the first floor . |
| 19 | The bartender was whistling as he polished the glasses . |
| 20 | He knew that Mariana was watching as he stripped the shotguns , oiling them before reloading the magazines . |
| 21 | Kubitsky was holding the weapon , but it was Sandor who was smiling as he watched the others — Yuan , Zukov , Mubarak , even Vorontseff — as they climbed unarmed from the hatch . |