Example sentences of "[verb] he [be] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well do n't you enjoy him being here making you laugh ? |
| 2 | I know the name " — is partially explained by the fact that the stage directions suggest he is still looking at Chetwyn , but we infer Anderson 's absent-mindedness from his response because any confusion over the referent of the question is unlikely , assuming that Anderson , as a participant in the Colloquium ( albeit an unenthusiastic one ) , knows that the venue is Prague . |
| 3 | You suggest he was secretly testing it for work on the Antarctic land mass , flying it south over the pack ice . |
| 4 | Well , it turned out he used to be a ‘ pretty successful writer ’ , but then he found he was just getting into ‘ things that were too weird . ’ |
| 5 | Arthritic and near blind , he found he was also suffering from cancer and in human years would have been aged around 90 . |
| 6 | He found he was still standing there some minutes later , not because the traffic had been particularly heavy — there had been several opportunities to cross — but because he was lost in thought about what he had seen . |
| 7 | Charlie found he was continually spitting out mud and once even came face to face with a German who could n't blink . |
| 8 | He says he 's also sueing the police because he 's bitter about his treatment during the murder investigation . |
| 9 | The family of the entertainer Leslie Crowther , who was critically injured in a car crash three months ago , says he 's slowly getting back to normal . |
| 10 | Abbot Mark says he 's definitely ruling out the use of his mitre and crozier while refereeing on the river . |
| 11 | She says he 's never going to get married . ’ |
| 12 | PC Packer says he 's only doing his job . |
| 13 | He says he 's now aiming to compete in the nineteen ninety six Olympics . |
| 14 | He says he 's now trying to undo all the plans that they 've made . |
| 15 | He says he 's quite enjoying it . |
| 16 | Mr Malik says he 's always catching you out in fibs . |
| 17 | Dave says he 's really looking forward to a nice day |
| 18 | He says he 's really going to make a killing ! — It 's beautiful ! ’ |
| 19 | He says he is now living in fear , having been told that an £80,000 contract has been taken out on his life . |
| 20 | Chen says he is still looking for new sources of finance that would enable the company to re-hire the 320 people thrown out of work by the closure , but does not hold out much hope . |
| 21 | And he says he is still learning about them almost half a century on . |
| 22 | Coun leader John Williams says he was just following official policy and any attempt to re-establish links before the South African referendum later this month would have been premature . |
| 23 | He says he was just starting out in life and they 're very bitter that he was killed by one person 's obsession for an obscene knife . |
| 24 | Cranog Jones says he was only trying to de-tune the engine . |
| 25 | He says he was always doing something . |
| 26 | The recurring bouts of illness made him feel he was continually living on the brink of eternity . |
| 27 | I hope he 's still going ahead with it ! ’ |
| 28 | I just hope he 's better looking than this . ’ |
| 29 | As a Governor he was expected to be continually generous , and it seemed he was always having to spend more money than he could afford . |
| 30 | It seemed he was deliberately galloping very close past her to upset her chestnut mare , who kept taking off into the pampas . |