Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] he [be] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From inside the room it must have looked like he was just hopping off into empty space , say goodbye to Buck Rogers , a suicide leap over a thirty-foot drop . |
| 2 | On Gordon Durie : ‘ I was n't surprised when he was substituted because he was already crying after one of my tackles on him . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm insulted that he 's even talking about me on the tape — and I 'm sure the other players he 's mentioned feel the same . |
| 4 | Madame Butterfly , he thought , for he had sneaked a glance at the soldier opposite and seen that he was now weeping , the letter crumpled in his fist , scrunching apple blossom . |
| 5 | If Ramsbum had been a human being Amiss might have suspected that he was seriously feeling grief . |
| 6 | The boy had seen because he was always looking to see what people were doing . |
| 7 | Garland was shaken and he was still making up his mind how to react when the doorbell rang . |
| 8 | THE LIDs OVER the cannons ' eyes slid open as the pirogues approached ; the watch would have thought that he was only imagining the narrow prows breaking the black water , but the order had been given , ‘ Full alert ’ , and so the English sailor trusted his eyes and raised the alarm . |
| 9 | Simon Cormack , seeing his rescuers approaching him , slowed until he was hardly jogging at all . |
| 10 | The farm worker still remains socially and geographically isolated but he is also becoming less bound by custom and habit . |
| 11 | Edward Thomas may not have known that he was also making an ecological point when he pinned down so precisely the atmosphere and feel of these places : |
| 12 | I wrapped him in the big blanket we 'd brought as he was already shivering . |
| 13 | It was Fiver who had stamped and he was now staring intently across the field . |
| 14 | But , when asked whether he was still looking for a new goalkeeper despite Hitchcock 's form , Porterfield said : ‘ We are always looking to improve our squad of players and we will keep searching . ’ |
| 15 | The Collector 's delirium still continued and he was undoubtedly becoming weaker ; because of these continuing symptoms McNab now substituted bark , chloric aether , and ammonia in effervescence for the laudanum and asked Miriam to increase the brandy to half an ounce every hour . |
| 16 | Last night television 's aristocracy came together to pay homage to his service … still unfinished by the way , attempts to retire have failed and he 's still running the Sunday evening programme Highway with Harry Secombe . |
| 17 | Now , after two or three treatments , his coordination has improved and he is also doing much better at school . |