Example sentences of "[coord] he [be] [v-ing] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The writer of this extract may have felt that she or he was paraphrasing rather than plagiarising , and might point to the reference made in the extract to Leech and Short as evidence that she or he was not being dishonest . |
| 2 | • Check that your child 's heart is beating and he is breathing regularly and , if necessary , give artificial respiration ( see Not Breathing ) . |
| 3 | and he 's sitting outside and he goes , he 's mum goes well he 's been out there two weeks and he 's still stood there in the same spot and he 's going like that |
| 4 | Now well I 'm sitting there , Robert 's my customer and like I 'm sitting there and he comes out with this fabulous spiel , right , as this objection , right , that was word perfect and he 's sitting there after he 's finished it as smug as anything and looking at me as if to say so what are you gon na do about that then ? |
| 5 | It was no longer just go out and do a gig with your equipment — there were lighting men , dancers , singers , — there was so much that I think no-one could handle it and he was wanting more and more to make the show very good . |
| 6 | Mr Stack is vice president Europe for Air Express International and he was speaking just after AEI had won the British International Freight Association 's 1993 Air Division Gold Award . |
| 7 | I used to get home absolutely exhausted from work and he was sitting there and he 'd say , " What 's for dinner then ? " |
| 8 | Well he said , Alright , he said , I 've made arrangements for your baggage to be picked up and you 'll stay with me in New Rochelle , and he was going away and he slipped me ten bucks cos I only had ten pounds money . |
| 9 | And he was standing there and he scored . |
| 10 | But the Hall of Light faded , and the impression of great elegance and immense silence and a drifting unfamiliar scent faded , and he was falling forward and there was some kind of cell waiting for him , and this was surely the end of everything , and this was surely all he could ever expect anywhere in the entire world … |
| 11 | But he was getting nowhere and felt frustrated . |
| 12 | Hayling was still not a formal member of the group starting the paper , but he was getting more and more interested , and in his official GLC capacity acted as a go-between between the paper and GLEB , smoothing over the difficulties and piloting the paper round bureaucratic pit-falls . |
| 13 | But he was having today as well were n't he , his back door ? |
| 14 | I know nothing of the circumstances of his illness , but he was dying angrily and his procrastinations could be sufficiently explained by a need to hold on to life , to defer events into the future . |
| 15 | His voice was low , but he was breathing harder and his eyes gleamed as though he held Tug in a trap . |
| 16 | Occasionally two or three rooks would straggle up to mob him from some tree or tiny patch of parkland they were trying to protect but he was going strongly and the wind was giving him support and direction . |
| 17 | Artemis reined her horse back again , but he was becoming more and more strung-up and excited by the minute . |
| 18 | But he was smiling broadly as he held her away to arm 's length . |