Example sentences of "he [is] [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Support for him is slowly growing among influential Tories . |
| 2 | When we look at Poe 's tales , the structure seems predictable , even formulaic : the dawning sense that all is not as it should be ; the attempts to explain away the moaning sounds that something inside him is nevertheless compelling him to hear ; the fight with fancy , as if one could will away one 's deepest fear ; and then the horrified recognition that what one was most afraid of is there , behind the antique panels , waiting to throw one to the floor . |
| 3 | What the charity groups think of him is hardly going to make or break him in the operatic world . ’ |
| 4 | That s past him hopefully , and he s also playing with more confidence … |
| 5 | He s always encouraging the team . |
| 6 | He s 37 for christs sake and yet he s always getting back to defend . |
| 7 | in the coming year , and he is today announcing that we are doubling the size of the homeless mentally ill programme in London . |
| 8 | In other words , the sceptic , if he is to make himself understood , can not avoid relying on the conceptual scheme that he is overtly attacking , and if so , his argument collapses before it can even get off the ground . |
| 9 | He is instinctively keeping balance like a monkey in flight . |
| 10 | Bowden firmly believes that the Irish record pollack could fall this season from one of the wrecks he is presently working over , and these recent successes augur well for the future . |
| 11 | He is presently covering rock concerts for Kendal council who are hosting an exhibition of his work later in the year . |
| 12 | He is presently covering rock concerts for Kendal council who are hosting an exhibition of his work later in the year . |
| 13 | He is equally unforthcoming about how he gets written out of Neighbours ; Joe Mangle will be no more in the New Year , but he wo n't reveal how . |
| 14 | What is required of the student is the capacity to identify with English : " Unless an undergraduate can identify himself in some sense with the subject he is studying , he is either reading the wrong School , or has no business to be at university at all . |
| 15 | If you see a picture of a golfing great with his hands well in front of the clubhead at impact , you can be sure that he is either playing the type of shot I have just mentioned or he could be squeezing the ball out of a tight lie . |
| 16 | To laughter , he joked : ‘ He is probably looking after his pond . ’ |
| 17 | My husband has n't got a fixed address and he is probably hiding . |
| 18 | He is probably going to the château . |
| 19 | Well at the present moment it 's about , where he is it 's about half past five , twenty to six , so he is probably waiting for his supper I should think his evening meal . |
| 20 | In fact he is probably feeling fresher and sharper now , hungrier to resume his England career than for some time . |
| 21 | Do not immediately put him on the lead , for this will reinforce the idea that when he comes back to you , he is immediately going to be taken home and , in future , will associate coming to you with the end of the walk or game . |
| 22 | he tries to arrest her , but she bravely defies him until some guerrillas arrive , and he is soon begging abjectly for mercy . |
| 23 | By not considering this as a possibility , the pilot gives himself little or no hope of a safe landing , especially if the alternative is a very low 360° turn and he is already flying rather slowly . |
| 24 | So far his progress has been encouraging and he is already taking a few steps with the aid of a frame . |
| 25 | Section 40(1) of the Patents Act 1977 permits an employee inventor to apply to either tribunal for a single or periodic award of compensation over and above the salary he is already earning . |
| 26 | Currently , his network of clubs covers the south east of England , in Heston , Raynes Park , Chigwell , Finchley , Enfield , Eastbourne and Bushey , although he is already looking at new sites in Kent and Scotland and the intention is to expand to other areas of Britain , including Northern Ireland . |
| 27 | When Disllokey nods to me this morning it is with a distant seriousness , as if he is already bracing himself to lose his identity in the harshly impersonal world across the water . |
| 28 | ‘ keep to a particular line ’ means e.g. to continue in the line in which he is already travelling ; |
| 29 | Three months after becoming prime minister , he is already putting in place a vast programme to privatise the state-owned businesses that have been a drag on the country since they were nationalised by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in the early 1970s . |
| 30 | He is already playing for the team and has the qualities to perhaps captain France on day . |