Example sentences of "[that] he [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our Nancy might be only seventeen , but she 's already a full-growed woman to look at , and I know she 'd be pleased to be 'is wife , 'e 'd only 'ave to ask 'er , except 'e did say once that 'e 's waitin' a while before 'e gets married . |
| 2 | The other thing is as well though you could 've actually got more out of Martin by talking about that because you may have mentioned something that he 's enjoying and says oh I do that , or something like that . |
| 3 | But you can hardly set out to persuade your most promising applicant that he 's downgrading himself . |
| 4 | Yamazaki seems unconcerned by the fact that he 's taking on problems that have defeated many who should have known better . |
| 5 | Er we set up on a regional basis er er Robert talked to you a couple of months ago about the initiatives that he 's taking from our and that again is a very much of a cross practice initiative er which is drawing on all the skills that we 've got within the with within the office penetrate the middle market sector and we are going to er specifically use er our grounds expertise and er computer audit expertise as a product which we saw would be attractive to these er these sort of companies . |
| 6 | but did somebody else say to me that he 's taking action against the Scottish Office |
| 7 | The Chief Constable of Gloucestershire has announced that he 's leaving his job to take up a new post with the intelligence service in London . |
| 8 | Now , as one New York dealer put it a week ago , ‘ the word is that he 's cashing in . ’ |
| 9 | There is a wealth of revealing evidence on the attitudes that affect reading : ‘ His daddy always takes him to bed , and he says ‘ Can I have a story ? ’ said an engineer 's wife , ‘ but he 's been told now that he 's getting a bit too old for stories ’ ’ [ ‘ He ’ is four ] ( Newson and Newson , 1968 , p.274 ) ; ‘ Then I read her a story , ’ said an actor 's wife , ‘ and Rupert listens , and then I show Rupert his little book ’ ’ [ Rupert being sixteen months old ] ( ibid . |
| 10 | Let him think that he 's getting away with it . |
| 11 | His big thing at the moment does n't seem to be women but some ruined castle down in Berkshire that he 's getting restored . ’ |
| 12 | Er so er let's say that the ten percent rate applies , er mind you ten percent is a long way from where we are now , but it makes the figures easy to look at , so er let's say that he 's getting ten percent gross on his return on a building society , he 'd actually get seven and a half percent net , er so on his ten thousand he 's going to earn seven fifty . |
| 13 | If the client is confident that he 's getting the best deal from us , he will say , alright Birmingham ar are cheaper than York on a route improvement say , but I 've had one of their cheap jobs before . |
| 14 | There are two girl keepers who spend as much time as they can with him and are giving him so many titbits that he 's getting thoroughly spoiled . |
| 15 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 16 | I would imagine that he 's getting help off his parents , to be honest . |
| 17 | So that he 's getting |
| 18 | ‘ I 've had a message from one of the members of the consortium that he 's providing a multi-lingual stenographer . |
| 19 | cos if you do n't know how much money that he 's earning what can you do ? |
| 20 | But he denies that he 's deserting a sinking ship . |
| 21 | And h let him realize that he 's remembering these , and it 's easier than looking it up every time . |
| 22 | That he 's using his vast profits from drug-smuggling to finance his terrorist activities ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Because my impression is that he 's using the privacy of the consulting room to hide something . |
| 24 | I told you on Saturday evening that he 's using you , just as he 's used me . ’ |
| 25 | it 's tempting to think that he 's using phraseology picked up on a recent voyage on the Star Ship Enterprise . |
| 26 | He 's declaring that he 's using a taxi and it costs him a hundred and sixty pound a month , every day back and forwards to work , well everyone knows that 's a lie cos she takes him to work |
| 27 | The idea is that he 's using them as , as a way of communicating the idea of the forest being er landscaped ; the whole environment of being polluted and it has an ecological background to it . |
| 28 | He knows that he 's looking for a one-way result . |
| 29 | He says that he 's looking for birds preening or doing something which makes a good composition . |
| 30 | Well let me speak to my brother first but erm give Geoff a call , I know that he 's looking for something . |