Example sentences of "[conj] he was [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was either out and had n't switched on the answering machine or he was tormenting her by ignoring the telephone . |
| 2 | Later I thought it through and decided a big part of it was that , although he was coining it from the teds , I think he felt he was seen — by his peers — as an artistic cretin . |
| 3 | It was decided that he was bringing them into disrepute and should be dismissed summarily . |
| 4 | Claudia lifted her arms , putting them round his broad shoulders , hardly conscious that he was divesting her of her jacket and blouse . |
| 5 | Jimmy adjusted the gun so that he was holding it with both hands . |
| 6 | It was then she realised that he was lambasting her with the tennis racquet . |
| 7 | When she looked back at Petion , she saw that he was watching her with a sympathetic expression . |
| 8 | His voice was low , and she glanced up and saw that he was watching her with a strange kind of intensity . |
| 9 | The Feldwebel had not moved and I looked all the way up his black leather jack-boots and the thin grey greatcoat with its cheap tin buttons looking as if they had come out of a Christmas pudding before I noticed that his eyes were slightly open and that he was watching me with an uncle 's amusement . |
| 10 | After a couple of minutes , one of them returned and placed a hand on Beattie 's shoulder and said that he was arresting him under Section 10 and Schedule 1 of the Northern Ireland ( Emergency Provisions ) Act . |
| 11 | She understood that he was imagining her in a swimsuit with sleek hair at the local pool or in a short , white dress on a tennis court . |
| 12 | And when Pilate saw that he was accomplishing nothing but rather that a riot was starting , he took water and washed his hands in front of the multitude saying , I am innocent of this man 's blood , see to that yourselves . |
| 13 | David , feeling that he was learning nothing at Newtown Comprehensive and that his parents ' lives were increasingly centred on London , took a unilateral decision ; he left Clogau , moved into the family flat in Chelsea and enrolled at Holland Park Comprehensive , the most renowned , free-thinking state school of the day . |
| 14 | He had on the long white cloak which signified to the audience that he was wearing nothing at all . |
| 15 | Utterly flabbergasted , Leith began to realise that he was accusing her of announcing their ‘ engagement ’ to all and sundry . |
| 16 | She looked at him warily to find that he was regarding her with unprecedented tenderness . |
| 17 | It symbolized that he was putting himself under the protection of the saint , the patron of his kingdom ; but it also revealed the sort of anomaly which had entered the feudal hierarchy . |
| 18 | Privately , Robbie considered he was over-reacting , that he was blaming her for his own inability to work today . |
| 19 | Instinct told her that he was planning something for her and it might not be to her liking . |
| 20 | The official story is that he was playing it at a party and people wanted to hear it over and over . |
| 21 | In a suicide note Nguyen Van Hai said that he was killing himself in protest at Hong Kong 's refugee screening policy . |
| 22 | When she came to , she saw that he was carrying her across the field , past the cottage and up the track towards his Jaguar . |
| 23 | Giles recalls one remark when Montini was criticizing the De Gasperi Christian Democratic government for inaction while denying that he was doing anything of the kind ( a typical Montini ploy ) : ‘ In political questions the Church has to be general , just as in religious matters she can not afford not to be particular ’ ( ibid. , p. 109 ) . |
| 24 | you , er , it had happened because I had been , I had had a lot of training and a lot of swindles and thing , I was able to talked to him and I talked to him for an hour and a half er , I was curious for one thing to find out why he was , he , he was breaking into people 's houses , so that the fact that he was doing it for , to , to get money for drugs |
| 25 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with the great reluctance . |
| 26 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 27 | Ward 's excuse for talking in Spanish had been that he was accustoming himself to using it freely . |
| 28 | The note which had been sent into him at the factory had said that he was to meet them at eight o'clock on Boxing Night . |
| 29 | She knew that John truly believed that he was protecting her by keeping their love secret , but she was becoming frustrated and annoyed about the situation . |
| 30 | It occurred to Cassie that he was keeping himself under an unnatural control , like a muzzled animal . |