Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] his [noun pl] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was picking his teeth with a match while someone on the phone talked his ear off . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | He looked helplessly at the adjutant , who was eating ; then at Woolley , who was cleaning his ears with a match stick ; and turned back . |
| 5 | Joyce was informing his listeners of a massive air strike by Luftwaffe bombers against the Kent coast . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | At British level Rob was finding his feet as a coach , but found the initial lack of funding frustrating . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |