Example sentences of "[Wh det] he [be] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ keep to a particular line ’ means e.g. to continue in the line in which he is already travelling ; |
| 2 | Her father 's loving- ( or lying- ) competition , designed though it may be to give her the best part of England ( which he is also giving himself , of course , since he intends to live in retirement with her ) , and revealing , in a way , his love for her , is nevertheless so constructed that she would have to compete with hypocrisy in order to win . |
| 3 | But he admitted finding Minton 's facility suspect and thought ‘ the restlessness with which he is still casting about for fresh novelties of manner suggests a certain instability . ’ |
| 4 | My hon. Friend has made it clear that no willing volunteer will be turned away and that anybody who wants to continue to serve with the TA will be able to do so , maybe not with the unit in which he is now serving , but with another unit . |
| 5 | Prosecutors agreed not to go ahead with the case , in return for Chieke pleading guilty to separate , less serious matters , for which he is now serving 12 years in prison . |
| 6 | So says theatrical director Sam Wanamaker of Shakespeare 's Globe Theatre , which he is now trying to reconstruct on the south side of the Thames in London . |
| 7 | I do not think there is any difference of opinion as to its being a general rule that , where any injury is to be compensated by damages , in settling the sum of money to be given for reparation of damages you should as nearly as possible get at that sum of money which will put the party who has been injured , or who has suffered , in the same position as he would have been in if he had not sustained the wrong for which he is now getting his compensation or reparation . |
| 8 | As for Sir Robert , who is , I believe , a man with a strong marketing background , might I suggest that he emerges from the confines of his embattled empire and experiences at first hand the market in which he is now operating incognito during the evening rush-hour . |
| 9 | This day I was motored over to Burghclere to see Stanley Spencer 's mural paintings which he is now working on in the Memorial Chapel built for the plans of the pictures he has in mind . |
| 10 | Next door , steady work is going ahead on a long term , very ambitious educational project to which he is now turning his energies . |
| 11 | Mur. 0/1 ascending to 0/7 , which he is currently taking . |
| 12 | He was sentenced to 10 years ' imprisonment which he is currently serving in Guanajay Prison . |
| 13 | In February 1992 he was sentenced to four years in prison , which he is currently serving in Sindos Military Prison near Thessaloniki . |
| 14 | Signed to the Canadian independent label Stream Records in 1986 , Daniel released a debut album ‘ Good Day Messiah ’ for which he is currently seeking a licensing deal . |
| 15 | He lives in a 48″ × 18″ × 15″ tank which he is rapidly outgrowing . |
| 16 | Among the few papers in his possession at the time of his death were some manuscript notes in which he was evidently attempting to develop his earlier skit , ‘ The Hopkin Syndicate ’ . |
| 17 | He had the faculty of meeting everyone on the level , and Father had a story of seeing him at a political meeting , which he was probably chairing , walking arm in arm with the Grand Old Man himself , both talking . |
| 18 | With his long miserable face and long red nose which he was perpetually wiping , and his habit of comparing each one of us with his paragon of a wife , we hated him . |
| 19 | His motive is the kind of pleasure for himself ( or pain avoided ) at which he was ultimately aiming . |
| 20 | The blood of this world which he had created and which he was slowly killing . |
| 21 | I even knew a chap in hospital once who was more concerned about his totally symptomless brain tumour than about the lobar pneumonia from which he was cheerfully recovering . |
| 22 | The forensics , for much of which he was still waiting , and might go on waiting unless he pressed , the photographs and diagrams contained in the Scene of Crime report , and the testimony of Mrs Brocklebank . |
| 23 | Mireille eventually met Rob Andrew , the Lions captain , and he too ended up with a bouquet , which he was still wondering how to dispose of as his players began to line up . |
| 24 | He did make the inevitable protest of the recently released prisoner : was he to be hounded wherever he went , just because of the recent trip ‘ abroad ’ , and surely that debt was paid in full and he could be allowed to start again in , of all places , his old home , which he was only visiting in the hope of finding where his parents had moved to ; to lose touch with his dear mother was not to be borne ; he needed to talk with his parents , to explain things to them , and ask for their forgiveness . |
| 25 | Cardiff looked back to see that the other man had opened one of the metallic cases and taken out what seemed to be earphones , which he was now wearing . |
| 26 | Having eaten two packets of bacon-flavoured potato crisps , he had purchased another tube of Rowntree 's Fruit Gums , which he was now enjoying while waiting for the lights to dim . |
| 27 | Moreover the death of Albert only served to emphasize the emotional burden which he was now craving : the increasing loneliness of the ageing Janie Moore , and the total isolation of his brother . |
| 28 | But his depression at the failure of the play was only part of a pervasive depression from which he was now suffering . |
| 29 | It was rather as if the author — for all the breadth of his experience which he was constantly insisting upon — had never quite grown up . |
| 30 | He was the only Ryan to wear glasses , which he was forever pushing higher on his nose , the thick lenses giving him an owlish appearance . |