Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [v-ing] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must be trying to lure him to it , the naughty girl . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , he was not prepared to take chances , so he checked and rechecked the security of the box and the store-room below in case vandals from a nearby village might be intending to pay him an unwelcome visit . |
| 3 | And the new line of Mr Ryabov and his allies might be a cleverer tactic than the one used by Mr Khasbulatov : instead of opposing the president , Mr Ryabov might be trying to draw him into protracted haggling in order to dissipate the momentum the president won in the referendum . |
| 4 | Almost certainly , they 'd be coming to see him , too . |
| 5 | The emergency plan was for Giles , fingers crossed , to take the tube from Heathrow to Hammersmith , where we 'd be waiting to pick him up . |
| 6 | The latent thought is the notion that Gloucester may be plotting to murder him — an idea too horrifying to contemplate . |
| 7 | She may need money to buy food for the family , or she may be trying to stop him leaving her and the children . |
| 8 | He recalls vividly being told shortly after he took the job at Fawley refinery that an Esso director would be calling to see him . |
| 9 | Teena had phoned her husband , warning him police would be coming to see him that night . |
| 10 | Endill remembered that this was the place where someone would be waiting to meet him . |
| 11 | That leaves the Russians relying on inexperienced stand-in Aleksandr Goteyen , and Mark Hateley and Ally McCoist will be looking to exploit him . |
| 12 | Martin Hines says he 's been a winner here twice and everyone will be looking to beat him . |
| 13 | Quinn said : ‘ Bobby Gould was prepared to take a gamble on me at Coventry , so I will be trying to pay him back for that by scoring even more goals . |
| 14 | We will be asking to see him very quickly . ’ |