Example sentences of "he was [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house had been built on the Heath by an enterprising man who was said to have kept a tethered goat there , then to have put a wall round the goat and then to have built the house before anyone noticed he was purloining the land . |
| 2 | Marlow himself , listening to Jim 's confused , hesitant version of the affair as the court-martial proceeds , realises that ‘ with every instant he was penetrating deeper into the impossible world of romantic achievements ’ and cuts across the young man 's evident yearning to make some heroic restitution by the blunt reminder , ‘ If you had stuck to the ship , you mean ! ’ |
| 3 | Why , he was boasting about it in the prop-room . |
| 4 | and there he was boasting about his age and |
| 5 | He still had a lot more to write but , considering that he was bowing out with Telemachus , he thought that he would not leave a negligible oeuvre behind him . |
| 6 | He was bowing over her , and he was nonplussed when , smiling up into his face , she said , ‘ You are teasing me now , are n't you ? |
| 7 | Now , at seventeen , he was bowing to Mrs Cohen 's wish and had entered University College to study medicine . |
| 8 | But in April 1878 he was cautioned for being intoxicated while on duty , and when discovered drunk in 1882 was reduced to the second class . |
| 9 | The right not to answer was pointed out to W when he was cautioned and it would be wrong to put before the jury a question and answer where the question might influence the jury , and the answer amounted to nothing . |
| 10 | He was cautioned . |
| 11 | He was cautioned after his first offence when he was 13 . |
| 12 | The Bishop retired after he was cautioned by the police for the offences . |
| 13 | The writer of this extract may have felt that she or he was paraphrasing rather than plagiarising , and might point to the reference made in the extract to Leech and Short as evidence that she or he was not being dishonest . |
| 14 | so I 've shared a room with erm this chap Tom who was er he had been in the First World War and er though he seemed old to me at the time , I suppose he was probably in his thirties and erm he joined the Home Guard and erm lived , because he was bombed out where he lived in he moved out to Coptock had accommodation out there and er he was in the unit at Coptock and so that used to take up quite a bit of his time and other erm members of staff were , of course also had fire watching and erm various civil defence activities , quite apart from the work on the A R P shifts . |
| 15 | Was that what he was implying ? |
| 16 | To suggestions that he was implying that the Labour leadership had not been bold enough so far , Mr Edmonds said : ‘ There is something of a hangover from the last election at the moment . |
| 17 | This could be said with some emphasis of Chatterton , but not of Eliot himself , who moreover survived , who grew to be famous , who did not kill himself , though he was to wonder how one might set about dying . |
| 18 | Like a little puppy dog , he had waited for a sign that he was forgiven . |
| 19 | He was forgiven and rapidly advanced by the Commons ' managers , joining the important recess committee ( September ) and chairing the inquisitorial information committee ( January 1642 ) . |
| 20 | Doubtless the carver mistook a lighted candle for a flower on the illustration he was copying . |
| 21 | Klaus denied accusations by opposition parties that he was copying Poland 's " shock therapy " , and that he was deliberately using inflation to soak up excess purchasing power . |
| 22 | Just then , the monk found difficulty in seeing the page he was copying . |
| 23 | The days of smoking a pipe suddenly came back to him , and he realized that he was biting down on his own teeth . |
| 24 | It seems that the main annalist 's fondness for tales of woe in this case led him to distort the facts , or that he was misled by sources which did so . |
| 25 | But he was surrendered , they had surrendered him , into the power of death . |
| 26 | For a start he was preaching that assurance was essential for salvation ; that is , you could know within you that you were well and truly saved . |
| 27 | Furthermore he was preaching against Calvinism . |
| 28 | He was preaching on the text ‘ The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence , and violent men take it by force ’ . |
| 29 | During one service , whilst he was preaching , three J.P.s and several soldiers burst into the chapel with the purpose of arresting Richard Baxter . |
| 30 | Every day she insisted on dragging her society friends , some very reluctant , to the Opera House in Haymarket where he was preaching . |