Example sentences of "[v-ing] [conj] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he says nineteen sixty two when I started reffing and he said the oth they 're not I 'm not giving them this one but these two are for the other mascot scene . |
| 2 | Parks claimed that he was n't even aware of what was happening till he heard the door slam shut as the thieves made their escape . |
| 3 | I had applied for an Adjournment debate on this subject , but I realised that the hon. Member for Rotherham ( Mr. Crowther ) had a prior right , representing as he does the NLVA . |
| 4 | He did n't smile as the Shermans approached but waited with his left hand resting on the hilt of his ceremonial sword , his aloof expression suggesting that he estimated the dignity of his person to be at least equal to that of the fabled hero of France looking down from the wall behind him . |
| 5 | The quote is : ‘ At the inaugural dinner for its first showing at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum in April 1991 , Rand Castile , the director , admitted to a personal call from Henry Kissinger suggesting that he drop the show , diplomatic relations with China being at stake ’ . |
| 6 | At the inaugural dinner for its first showing at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum in April 1991 , Rand Castile , the director , admitted to a personal call from Henry Kissinger suggesting that he drop the show , diplomatic relations with China being at stake . |
| 7 | However , whether or not someone might have bumped him off is mercifully a hypothetical question , seeing that he had the decency to do the job himself . |
| 8 | It was due to this second helping that he rejected the quail and mutton cutlets ( with pickled walnuts ) as Alice and Algernon , with a somewhat nervous eye on Lord Beddington , offered them . |
| 9 | He wrote to various suppliers implying that he owned the arcade and obtained around £350,000 worth of goods on credit . |
| 10 | I think he goes training because he knows the police can never find an Athletico training session . |
| 11 | He was frowning as he took the victor downstairs to Harry . |
| 12 | It was painful for the woman , and Juliet tried to comfort her , but the doctor was still frowning as he concluded the examination . |
| 13 | He appeared to be deep in thought , frowning as he watched the highway ahead , and at last she felt she must say something to break the silence . |
| 14 | He turned and headed back to the Montego , pausing as he opened the door . |
| 15 | But , with Piers there , she watched instead as they worked together , Simone quickly preparing the garlic butter , and making the salad dressing as he chopped the lettuce . |
| 16 | Azadi was trembling as he replaced the handset of the telephone . |
| 17 | The Iranian 's hand was trembling as he lifted the handset from its cradle . |
| 18 | He was still grinning when he left the centre and as Rachel began clearing up the soiled dressings she strained her ears to hear what was being said in the office . |
| 19 | The evening breeze also brought the sounds of singing and he recognised the lusty bellowing of Ranulf . |
| 20 | Debates on Europe in the Assemblée Nationale are attended by a mere handful of deputés and after the dramatic debate in Westminster in June 1991 , Jacques Delors remarked that only the British were discussing Europe properly , adding that he wished the other countries would do the same . |
| 21 | I visited a college there in , in that offshore island in the Indian Ocean and met the principal of that theological college and I said to him , I asked him how the college was going and he gave the same blandness to his answer as to my question and then he said of his theological college we are still training an aristocracy for the church and ensuring the inertia of the people of God . |
| 22 | They had to get rid of a leader before they could bring themselves to admit that the poll tax was a mistake and I ca n't see John Major going before he loses the next election . |
| 23 | Corbett tugged his cloak around him and strode back towards the priory building , not caring whether he shattered the peace of a convent where so many dark deeds had been committed . |
| 24 | Faced with an audience which included Dikaiopolis , the main character in Aristophanes ' Acharnians ( see lines 1ff. ) , farting and grumbling as he watched the Spartan ; put a match to the combustible parts of Attica , a speaker might well need to invent cruder techniques . |
| 25 | Maybe not everything … but he 's lying when he says the Darkfall has passed . |
| 26 | During the hearing , he claimed that Chapman and the directors knew of this and accused the manager of lying when he told the commission he did not know . |
| 27 | William Empson has commented , " I find it a completely achieved poem ; probably Coleridge was lying when he told the story of the person from Porlock , nearly twenty years later … " |
| 28 | And the list grew longer every time , for he did n't just read the new names but began with the first and proceeded to the newest , the tension in his cathedral growing as he reached the end of the litany of those whose names were already familiar and , without pause , added those of the latest . |
| 29 | She followed Master Nan , waiting as he unlocked the great double doors again and pushed them open . |
| 30 | ‘ If you 're wakeful I thought you might like company in the shape of Emma — ’ He stopped , his eyes narrowing as he saw the expression on her face . |