Example sentences of "[verb] he [was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a puzzled lift of her head she found he was watching her with a faraway expression in his eyes . |
| 2 | The ‘ English gentleman ’ star spent five days in hospital with a perforated ulcer — and was told he was drinking himself to death . |
| 3 | I could see he was bracing himself for his act . |
| 4 | As he walked he was stuffing them into his mouth . |
| 5 | But she could tell he was doing it for effect , he was still himself . |
| 6 | He paused , and Juliet felt he was watching her in the darkness . |
| 7 | ‘ Many felt he was allowing himself to be misrepresented . ’ |
| 8 | Lesley says Cindy left him because she felt he was tying her to DeKalb . |
| 9 | She knew he was hiding something from her about the cat , something nasty , that should not be spoken of , she was sure . |
| 10 | I was perhaps the only one who knew he was doing it for Duke . |
| 11 | He let his head roll against the window and she could have believed he was doing something with his eyes to the countryside , the way he had done with his eyebrows to the men . |
| 12 | I thought he was telling us about a mountain he climbed . |
| 13 | Ginny could only suppose that Ralph thought he was protecting her from a possible nuisance . |
| 14 | I thought he was having us on exaggerating — because there were always people hanging out , trying to crash Malcolm 's scene . |
| 15 | The girl beside him thought he was saying something to her and looked away . |
| 16 | Colour flooded her cheeks as she realised he was accusing her of posing and denying he had had anything to do with it . |
| 17 | It looked as if he was weight-training , then I realized he was bending them into circles so they could be covered in coloured paper and turned into Christmas wreaths . |
| 18 | With horror she realized he was carrying her to the top of the stairs . |
| 19 | Then I realized he was putting himself into the part . |
| 20 | It was a tray , a black plastic garden seed tray that we call a finds tray , and all then things he was finding he was putting them in there . |
| 21 | He said he was taking him to obedience classes but he was n't . |
| 22 | Ian said he was fetching her at lunchtime . ’ |
| 23 | He said he was growing it to me . |
| 24 | Although he believed thoroughly in the ability of these products to fill out the tiny character lines around the eyes and mouth , and to smooth his neck , he did not want to admit he was buying them for himself . |