Example sentences of "he 's [v-ing] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | President Bush says the world must look beyond the Gulf crisis to a new deal for the Middle East , and he 's hinting that an Iraqi pull out from Kuwait could lead to an end to the conflict between the Arabs and Israel . |
| 2 | But tonight there 's still no word on whether he 's staying or going . |
| 3 | ‘ I know where he 's staying and I 'm going to tackle him this evening . ’ |
| 4 | Poor David Lawrence the ball does seem to follow him around whenever he 's bowling as well he , ease himself back to his position now two more to , he moves on to eleven . |
| 5 | ‘ I do n't disturb him when he 's reading or sleeping or anything like that . ’ |
| 6 | He 's always doing that , he 's reading or drawing or something and he 's laughing to himself . |
| 7 | Not only is the official not complaining of the handicaps with which they have been saddled by Howard 's fellow-countrymen — he 's apologizing that they have n't overcome them ! |
| 8 | The dog just leaps on him right , so he 's wrestling this dog , and he 's screaming and the dog going , growling at him and everything |
| 9 | Oh and I just hope he 's remembering that I do n't want to be the sister in there . |
| 10 | Steve Goodwin is The Drummer From Cud and he 's pretending that he thinks it 's a really cool joke ha ha ha that both he and the band he loves have become a synonym for wanky indie crap . |
| 11 | " And he has n't asked about me , " says the woman , who still loves her husband and worries about whether he 's eating and whether he 's well . |
| 12 | I mean the furore about actually leasing trains has taken several years to develop erm And you just have to look at at the moment now and he does n't know if he 's sinking or swimming basically . |
| 13 | Walter 's managed to get the hold that he needs , but now he 's tugging and nothing 's happening . |
| 14 | And he does n't realise that he 's abusing and using them |
| 15 | He 's complaining because I , well it 's as though we run a minute mile . |
| 16 | really nice he 's thinking that I mean that , he could n't never lift the seat up . |
| 17 | Not a medium so he 's given him the small so he 's thinking if if it does n't fit he 's still made the sale . |
| 18 | You may well be better off without him instead of living in limbo , not knowing what he 's thinking or why he 's acting in this way . |
| 19 | He imagines he 's thinking when he just sits in his room and dreams and mumbles . |
| 20 | ‘ He 's a poet ’ , I said , ‘ — whether he 's writing or not . |
| 21 | Well if he 's coughing as well and he might make himself sick . |
| 22 | The other thing is as well though you could 've actually got more out of Martin by talking about that because you may have mentioned something that he 's enjoying and says oh I do that , or something like that . |
| 23 | He 's blossoming and that can only be good for us . ’ |
| 24 | He 's watching and listening to everything around him . |
| 25 | And he 's stopping and going |
| 26 | But he 's also saying is n't he at the end of this paragraph , or he 's implying that th this is this revolution is not happening because we the communists are making it happen , it is happening and we need to react to it and somehow we 've therefore got a choice , we can either trail behind or we can lead it . |
| 27 | And he 's warning if this is n't tackled now , we are creating a lethal cocktail which will result in a spiral of despair . |
| 28 | He 's suggesting that joint sentence formulation is quite common in everyday informal conversation , and that there are certain syntactic strategies which promote this kind of collaboration between speakers , |
| 29 | Jesus is not suggesting there are some who are righteous and some who are sinners , because we 're all sinners , all have sinned but he 's suggesting that those who do n't realize and acknowledge they 're sinners , he says , I have n't come to call you . |
| 30 | But then he has it , he 's off and running , he 's merging and purging that database with frantic abandon . |