Example sentences of "[vb pp] [that] he [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the time the reader is reminded that he is reading , confronted with his own reactions , reminded to keep his distance , forced into sceptical attitudes by an author determined that nothing shall appear easy or comfortable . |
| 2 | I thought , ‘ He is peculiar , he 's forgotten that he 's paying me £30 a year to obey his orders , ’ and I said , ‘ Not many masters bother to ask if their servants are offended by their orders . ’ |
| 3 | He 'd almost forgotten that he was looking for her . |
| 4 | He had forgotten that he was watching an exhibition . |
| 5 | Hsu 's monograph suffers from the converse limitation ; the author expressly claimed that he was studying members of his own society but , by the ordinary criteria used by social anthropologists , he was not doing an ) " thing of the sort . |
| 6 | In the end I went to the police and found that she 'd just reported that he was missing . ’ |
| 7 | He had considered that he was having a heart attack ; that would explain the pains in his side and the hot and cold sweats tormenting him . |
| 8 | Nutmeg suddenly realised that he was looking at himself ! |
| 9 | This is a convoluted way of achieving a just result , and the law should be that the defendant should be proved to have realised that he was dealing with a policeman , or was reckless about the matter . |
| 10 | Jesus ' audience , however , would not have recognised the ‘ son ’ as Jesus because they would not have realised that he was going to die . |
| 11 | Surely he must have realised that he was pitting himself against a concern of considerable strength . |
| 12 | Yet , Levine , who died in July 1987 , aged 81 , could not have realised that he was making one of the best investments of his life . |
| 13 | He had explained that he was going to see Eloise , in the hope she might be willing to sell him something . |
| 14 | The 62-year-old bishop later explained that he was quoting from a book called How To Be A Wally . |
| 15 | Technically he is excellent but you have noticed that he is falling down on the supervisory aspects of his job . |
| 16 | Next day , McMartin 's parents had noticed that he was taking a great interest in news of the murder and he had told them some things about the incident . |
| 17 | Had no one in the hospital tried to stop him leaving or even noticed that he was missing ? |
| 18 | I had n't noticed that he was carrying , not wearing , it and I certainly had n't seen him take the meat . |
| 19 | It was decided that he was bringing them into disrepute and should be dismissed summarily . |
| 20 | Billy Sullivan had decided that he was going to own his own gymnasium one day and the idea grew in his mind until it became an obsession . |
| 21 | He is so anxious about being accepted that he is trying to be extra good and even perfect . ’ |
| 22 | It was later generally accepted that he was suffering from multiple neurofibromatosis ( von Recklinghausen 's disease ) , a very rare and incurable disease characterized by the tendency to form neurofibromas ( tumours of the nerve and fibrous tissue ) . |
| 23 | Monsieur Mitterand has already said that he 's going to seek to drive a harder bargain with Britain over fishing limits even than President Giscard was trying to do , and I think our negotiators must expect a rather tough time as far as fisheries are concerned . |
| 24 | May we take it from what he has said that he is saying definitely that he would be prepared at Maastricht to make an irrevocable commitment to a single currency ? |
| 25 | Yes , er I 'm very worried about this aspect of er whose finger er on the nuclear trigger , because the nuclear referee in the Soviet Union is divided between mainly peace states , Russia , Ukraine and , now Boris Yeltsin has said that he is going to protect his Russian minorities in Ukraine and , now I fear that if that comes to some kind of a conflict then it 'll be very uncertain as to what arrangement could be made about er , honouring international agreement and about ultimately too er , any kind of nuclear er congregation . |
| 26 | Asked about apparent defections from his cause , he claimed never to have said that he was counting on anybody . |
| 27 | Had he said that he was going to his death in Lucifer 's inferno ? |
| 28 | It is said that he was interfering with the choir girls , some of whom were betrothed . |
| 29 | Ah he said he was go he promised that he was going to bring a new disk , and then he had n't and then he did this and I thought mm I 'm not going to get a new disk out of him now it 's out of warranty and at least it 's working now and |
| 30 | Ever since I produced my proposals about three months ago , I have thought that he was opposing them . |