Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] he [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He then sent a counter-embassy to Charles ( in the autumn of 772 ) , explaining that he was not unlawfully retaining those lands claimed by the Pope on behalf of the Exarchate of Ravenna , as the claim was false . |
| 2 | She listened to his calm voice explaining that he was not available and if she would like to leave a message … but the message she would like to have left was far too complicated , so she rang off without saying anything . |
| 3 | It was made clear to a friend of mine who was dying that he was not wanted on the ward , not through words but by the minimum care he was given after an unsuccessful operation and the refusal of any doctor to speak to him . |
| 4 | Well Peter I sa la one night last week oh it was the week before I was going up past and this fella was walking and he was fucking staggering and he was going on the road and Peter 's came back and fucking him . |
| 5 | ‘ I would n't know he was sulking if he was n't there , would I ? ’ said Constance . |
| 6 | Mr Brown 's girlfriend is dying and he 's really cut up about it . |
| 7 | did n't know what had been happening because he was n't at the meeting . |
| 8 | He had been long absent from the public balcony of the Roman palace which he had made his stage , and he was now proving that he was n't in chronic decline , as rumour held , with a pox contracted years ago , but had merely suffered a passing dose of ‘ flu . |
| 9 | He gave Doddie Weir a whack and he 's vilified by the press for three weeks afterwards , some of them suggesting that he was not fit to be a policemen . |
| 10 | The great virtue of Cagney to the Hollywood set-up was that he could realistically depict anger , violence , and meanness without in any way suggesting that he was personally a worthless villain or that the film in which he was appearing was deliberately condoning these unpleasant qualities . |
| 11 | I suppose English critics will always work on the old lines , and try to get behind the book to quiz the author … instead of seeing that he is almost irresponsible , that it is the result of haphazard circumstances , and that the writer rubs his eyes and wonders how this and that got into his pages as much as the reviewer does . |
| 12 | He turned up at the dance studio in a pair of very skimpy tight shorts and observing that everyone else was very white and wore towelling track suits , and seeing that he was very tall and very naked , got nervous so went for a walk and smoked a joint . |
| 13 | the difficulty , for the father , of accepting that he was no longer the only decision maker ; |
| 14 | She had thought he was asleep , realising that he was n't only when she felt him tense under the light touch of her fingers , but as he neither moved away nor said a word , she let them remain there , resting lightly against him , the contact lax and undemanding . |
| 15 | Realising that he was not only wasting his time until the storm abated but also endangering his life , George turned in what he hoped was the right direction for home . |
| 16 | But either it was not hunting or he was too big to tackle , for it disappeared over the heather ; and although he waited motionless for some time , it did not return . |
| 17 | In Twyford v. Manchester Corporation [ 1946 ] Ch. 236 , the plaintiff , although believing that he was not liable , for some years paid fees under protest for permission to recut and repaint tombstones in a cemetery . |
| 18 | He had laughed , simultaneously mocking the stupidity of government by cosmetics and confessing that he was also a part of it , just as he was part of government by voice coach and acting coach . |
| 19 | Dr Jaffery rustled around the room , picking up books and looking behind cushions for his mosque cap before remembering that he was already wearing it . |
| 20 | You said last week at the staff meeting that he was n't . |
| 21 | With a defective engine , little fuel and no instruments , the pilot decided to land , imagining that he was back over British-held territory . |
| 22 | But it is difficult to make anything of the sort of entry which assesses the rector at nil and omits the chaplain 's name , implying that he was not in his post . |
| 23 | ‘ He was told in writing that he was only going to be narrating for five minutes of the video , which is not what happened . |
| 24 | From what you told me , you seemed to feel the opposite : life might have been worth living if he was n't there . ’ |
| 25 | Everybody hates a bad leaver but , whereas in the West you can usually close the door on a guest who has finally reached the garden gate , in the islands it is impolite to stop waving and chanting until he is either round a corner and out of sight , or else too distant to be able to see the whites of his eyes . |
| 26 | No he 's alright looking but he 's just boring . |
| 27 | He had been told very little , and even that he had difficulty in remembering because he was so filled with excitement and anticipation . |
| 28 | When he opens his mouth , a valve closes to prevent him swallowing when he 's underwater , and he could have ejected that medicine if he had wanted to . ’ |
| 29 | A confirmed five-string user , John agrees to try the Pedulla , adding that he 's really no fan of Bartolini pickups , having tried them before and found them not to his taste . |
| 30 | ‘ I have the authority necessary from the board to build this company over , ’ he said , adding that he was not sure that breaking the company up would be the right approach . |