Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] his [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Procles was using his wits in the sort of intellectual games — rationalistic interpretations of myths , comparisons of popular military leaders — which appealed to the Greek and Roman public . |
| 2 | But Gary was keeping his predictions for the gilt market restrained . |
| 3 | He was picking his teeth with a match while someone on the phone talked his ear off . |
| 4 | Simultaneously , de Gaulle was pushing his ideas in a parallel series of bilateral meetings , arguing the case with Adenauer in February 1961 and then with the Italian premier in early April . |
| 5 | Harold was flexing his muscles for the perfect balance , teeth bared , knife poised over his head . |
| 6 | Dr Les Atkinson , vice-president of the chamber and chairman of BP Shipping , forecast : ‘ Any shipowner who disregards this guidance and causes a pollution incident is going to have an impossible task establishing in the courts that he was operating his vessels in a prudent and competent manner . ’ |
| 7 | Not that she was destined to get any practice at such a mega-speed , since Downes , at least for the first half of the interview , was to enunciate his words with the slow deliberation of a stupefied zombie . |
| 8 | He looked helplessly at the adjutant , who was eating ; then at Woolley , who was cleaning his ears with a match stick ; and turned back . |
| 9 | Joyce was informing his listeners of a massive air strike by Luftwaffe bombers against the Kent coast . |
| 10 | Now all he had to do was convince his colleagues in the company of the fact . |
| 11 | He was gritting his teeth against the pain , keeping it at bay while he studied the stump , the severed hand . |
| 12 | Jeremiah was wearing his pin-stripes with the seat shiny from decades of polishing the council furniture with his bottom . |
| 13 | He passed the walls of monasteries that once echoed to the chants of the Greyfriars , the Whitefriars and the Blackfriars , past guildhalls where merchants had convened to discuss the business of the world when Henry VIII was executing his wives down the road at the Tower , past delicate little churches designed by Wren in the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1666 . |
| 14 | Ian was very upset by his father 's intransigent attitude but he knew what he wanted to do and that was to pursue his studies by every means possible , although by now doubts were beginning to cloud his mind . |
| 15 | As Roger Forester was closing up the cottage behind him DI Mike Schaffer was swinging his legs off a creaking camp-bed in the office of the Langstone schoolhouse and sitting groggily upright . |
| 16 | More 's eloquence has set the tone for much historical writing on the subject , but while one should not deny that enclosures created a good deal of suffering , one should also remember that More was exaggerating his points for the sake of effect . |
| 17 | At British level Rob was finding his feet as a coach , but found the initial lack of funding frustrating . |
| 18 | Shafgar ( 4.1 ) was showing his paintings to the teacher . |
| 19 | I , I think so , because oh it 's still difficult to interpret Dickie 's stipulations sometimes , but he was waving his hands towards the scorer . |
| 20 | He was toasting his feet on the coal fired Aga |
| 21 | Tuppe was toasting his feet by the fire . |
| 22 | One of his earliest escapades there was to take his students to the Leaning Tower and drop weights from it , thereby disproving one of Aristotle 's dicta on motion . |
| 23 | The meeting was being held in the dining-room , and he was leaning his haunches against a table at the very front of the room , looking extremely cool and self-possessed . |
| 24 | ‘ He was leaning his elbows on the table . ’ |
| 25 | Malcolm was digging his nails into the palm of his hand . |
| 26 | The last fish he had landed was a magnificent sea-trout weighing 6lb and , as he applied the priest , he was telling his companions about a similar fish , caught by his father in the dim and distant past : ‘ A beautiful fish , gentlemen , just like this one is . ’ |
| 27 | His public voice was richer in its Southern tones than normal and he was delivering his words in the slow , measured cadences that he normally employed on the floor of the Senate . |
| 28 | He had folded up his sheets and blankets and was polishing his boots by the time reveille sounded . |
| 29 | Off-duty police constable David Crowe was visiting his parents in the town 's Coalhall Avenue in October last year when fire broke out in the house next door . |
| 30 | Even now , with Nicaea descending into a maelstrom of violence and recrimination , the head of the Justice Police was concentrating his energies on a series of grizzly murders . |