Example sentences of "[noun] he was [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He wanted her to go and buy some presentable clothes she could wear to the sort of smart restaurants he was taking her to . ’ |
| 2 | The chip man kept lifting handfuls of soggy potato to his head , but instead of shoving them into a mouth he was plastering them onto the featureless mass , sculpting himself a parrot nose , acromegalic brows and a Kirk Douglas chin . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's going to show me this museum he was telling me about . |
| 4 | And the job he was telling her about seemed interesting and desirable . |
| 5 | Everything was happening so fast — he could n't be aware of the crisis he was dragging me towards . |
| 6 | Mr Clarke told the Commons he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 7 | Mr Clarke told the Commons he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 8 | ‘ You know , ’ she said resentfully , ‘ when Billy was inside he was sharing a landing with some very funny men , and one day he was telling them about that pub he bought with the cellars full of Château d'Yquem not showing off or nothing , just by way of general conversation , and they said , ‘ Nice , is it , with that stuff you lot eat ? |
| 9 | Simon Evans was hooked on his gameboy from the minute he was given it as a present . |
| 10 | One minute he was kissing her as if he never wanted it to stop , and the next he was trying to protect her in some cryptic , jaded way from a danger that seemed clear to him but was a mystery to her . |
| 11 | If he was n't shaking hands with people he was greeting everything around him . |
| 12 | On the contrary , given the formidable powers he had shown to me , I rather suspected that even during his absence he was keeping me under observation . |
| 13 | Although he was no stranger to the town , now that he was on a case he was seeing it with new eyes . |
| 14 | Juan quickly established that Avila was nowhere near the rescue base ( had we followed the consul 's directions we would have ended up three hours away ) and within an hour he was driving us into the heart of the Sierra de Gredos . |
| 15 | I mean I w when I was dropping dead with exhaustion one evening I said to him look Tony , the there 's I 've cooked a chicken , there 's a big chicken cooling on the table and there there were red sauce , potatoes , gravy , I said , stick the lot on a plate a micro and , you know , film it over , microwave it oh well I sha n't bother to eat anything now of course he was paying me for his food |
| 16 | At once he was contrite , and in seconds he was hurrying her to his car . |
| 17 | The colour left her skin , her pale face showing a deep fear at the way he was crushing her to his body , the whipcord strength of his arms and the determination of his roaming fingers giving her an idea of the violence with which he would take her . |
| 18 | It was hard to conceal the sudden rush of nerves she felt when she saw the way he was watching her with that barely hidden amusement . |
| 19 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
| 20 | ‘ I expect you would be a good judge of that , ’ she snapped , hating the fact that she felt less annoyed at finding him in the room than at the thought of all the other women he was comparing her to . |
| 21 | On long strides he was leading her towards the door , oblivious to her inner anguish . |
| 22 | Mm my John was in Sale on Saturday when he ran into John he was telling him about his |
| 23 | All this time he was propelling me into a little room near the front door , and I was absolutely stiff with fright . |
| 24 | In fact he was identifying himself with his Girondin friends who were guillotined by the Jacobins in October and November 1793 ; although the story that Wordsworth visited France at this time to take help to the Girondins may be untrue , this is clearly what he would have wished to do if an opportunity had arisen . |