Example sentences of "[v-ing] what he [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's been doin' what he 's been told to do , and feedin' me back all the inside information I need . |
| 2 | In March a Scottish investment analyst was convicted of insider dealing for doing what he thought was his job — advising clients to sell after talking to top managers about their company 's prospects . |
| 3 | He got very angry quite often-when actors were not doing what he thought was professionally required of them . ’ |
| 4 | Fringe took up his position alongside with familiarity and eagerness , an athlete doing what he 'd been bred for , and enjoyed . |
| 5 | He also on July 24 made remarks criticizing members of the UN Security Council for giving what he maintained was undue priority to the situation in Yugoslavia , which he described as a " war of the rich " . |
| 6 | Knowing what he had been through just added a new dimension to what I saw . |
| 7 | Yeo has written to the department criticising what he claimed was its decision to ‘ down-grade ’ the level of security on the girl . |
| 8 | It took Quiss longer than he had expected to get to the castle kitchens ; they 'd changed some of the corridors and stairways en route from the games room to the lower levels , and Quiss , taking what he thought was the usual way , had found himself making an unexpected left turn and coming to a windy , deserted , echoing chamber which looked out over the white landscape to the tall wooden towers of the slate mines . |
| 9 | Was it , I wondered , his natural reaction to something extraordinary , and did he therefore use it on the stage , or was he simply acting and registering what he thought was the appropriate emotion under the circumstances ? |
| 10 | But after a while his father stopped him to say he was not singing what he had been taught . |
| 11 | Despite producing what he claims is ‘ the Rolls-Royce of beers ’ , Belhaven was in deep trouble . |
| 12 | Attacking what he said was the limited usefulness of the measures , he said : ‘ The situation is so desperate that anything seems better than nothing , even when what the Government is proposing is next to nothing . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ A big chicken , ’ he said , smiling what he hoped was a disarming smile . |
| 14 | WHILE Nick Faldo was stirring himself back to life again in the Freeport-McMoran Classic with a second round of 69 , Sandy Lyle was left contemplating what he felt was likely to be another missed cut in his final preparation for next week 's Masters . |