Example sentences of "he be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Now 'e 's payin' for it .
2 What 's more , 'e 's callin' on me late tonight to find out if I 've 'ad another go and if I 've earned the quid . ’
3 ‘ I do n't know where 'e 's gon na get the money from , ’ Nellie snorted .
4 She 's sure 'e 's gon na end up in prison the way fings are goin' .
5 ‘ If that rozzer sees Chopper 'e 's gon na twig somefing 's up .
6 'E 's got four lorries in there now an' I did 'ear 'e was lookin' fer anuvver place .
7 ‘ What 's more , Joe Wallace was so pissed that night 'e did n't 'ave an inklin' who 'e was talkin' to or what pub 'e was in for that matter , so there 's no come-back from 'im at least .
8 She begins her descripton of his plans in London English : " ( 'e was going ) to Jamaica , 'e was going to — " .
9 I was worried 'e was gon na take up boxin' after doin' it in the army .
10 What 's more , 'e told 'er if she did n't stop 'er silly carryin 's on , 'e was gon na leave 'er . ’
11 He even felt a rather pleasant sense of detachment from what was going on , almost as though everything around him were happening on television and the barman might switch to another channel at any moment .
12 The paramount value which Semai place on avoidance of conflict or confrontation precludes a direct response , so a strategy of passive resistance is adopted : the person who is being importuned begins , without responding directly , to turn slowly , almost imperceptibly , around , until the one who is importuning him is speaking to his back .
13 A man who advertised for a woman to live on a desert island with him is looking for another female travelling companion to repeat the trip .
14 Mr Watson said : ‘ It is the intention of Coun Garvey as long as he retains control of his private prosecution to seek that it be directed to the crown court on the basis that the allegation against him is heading towards the crown court and it would be sensible to have the two alleged criminal acts tried arising out of the same incident tried before the same court . ’
15 Mr Thomas is a witty writer , and I 'm sure his data-gathering has been impeccable , but somehow I just know the water around him is going to be thick with dorsal fins in February .
16 In that election the candidate dropped out at the last minute and the only man who could be found to replace him was living in Zambia .
17 And even now the closeness of him was acting like a drug on her tired senses , its effect heightened by a heady mixture of desire and fear .
18 Well , oh is n't he , I can see when she looking at him was looking at him , that 's what .
19 Something about him was beginning to needle her , challenging her to meet him on his own terms .
20 Handling him was going to be a delicate business , and Nelson was more than relieved that the job would n't fall to him .
21 " When it was clear that identifying him was going to be a long job — if , indeed , he could ever be identified — the coroner issued a burial certificate .
22 Towards the end of the fifteenth century the King was beginning to lose his power to amend a statute after it had passed both Houses : the statute as presented to him was coming to be regarded as the final legal form , which he could only reject or accept in toto .
23 Whatever was bothering him was gnawing at him as he ate .
24 And now you can ask I can sort of ask you questions on it like if he 's been travelling for let's say If he 's if he 's covered sixty miles how long has he been riding for ?
25 Okay erm If he 's done two hundred miles , how long has he been riding for ?
26 Carrie flashed Seb a shy smile that , had he been looking at her , would have conveyed to him all the love she was feeling .
27 Only in his more recent work The Power of the Center , published in 1988 , has he been looking from art to the resources offered by psychology .
28 Thomas May 's earlier assumption would have been a perfectly natural one had he been dealing with a museum collection , but here at Templebrough , the sherds came from his own excavation , and the only conclusion to be drawn is that he had very little conception of the significance of stratified deposits .
29 What had he been thinking about ?
30 Had he been hoping for Doreen to arrive and say she was no longer interested in the large Hastings home and that she 'd be willing to live anywhere with him — even to work beside him out in the wilderness ?
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