Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] he [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went in acting very worried , looking at people as though ashamed that they were seeing him in a cinema . |
| 2 | ‘ Good morning , ’ said the tailor , to this company , for he believed in good manners , and the creatures were surveying him in a judging and intelligent way . |
| 3 | But he might not always meet her calling or her waiting , for men , too , were bidding him to the sound of axe and plough and sword . ’ |
| 4 | We were escorting him to the door when there was a loud explosion at the side of the house . |
| 5 | But examples of this kind were pointing him in the direction he wanted to go . |
| 6 | He felt as if Simon were lifting him by the collar and dangling him so that his feet were off the earth and his toes straining to reach something . |
| 7 | Indeed one might argue that talk of Jesus as our ‘ brother ’ , emphasizing his humanity , makes Jesus more intrusively male than if one were casting him in the role of the cosmic Christ . |
| 8 | Len was thumping him on the arm now with his fist . |
| 9 | Ten miles away on that December evening , Walter Schellenberg lit a cigarette in the back of the Mercedes which was speeding him towards the castle . |
| 10 | And then the music was drawing him into the fire and the light , and he could see the massive shape of the Chariot limned against the forest now , bathed in its own radiance , hung with silk , lined with satin … |
| 11 | She was pursuing him like the Fury pursuing the crime . |
| 12 | Dyson swung the wheel to the left , then swung it sharply to the right again to avoid a lorry which was overtaking him on the inside . |
| 13 | Jean was pulling him by the hand towards the dance . |
| 14 | I was accompanying him in the show anyway and I think we just had the nerve . ’ |
| 15 | About once a week or fortnight I had to attend some quite high-powered meetings in London to which James came too , as I was feeding him at the time . |
| 16 | Still peering from the corner of his eye , Frankie stared at her breasts for a long time before he realized with a jolt that she was observing him through the mirror . |
| 17 | That way , he would be left alone without worrying why no one was asking him for an autograph . |
| 18 | The old man was begging him for a dime to buy a cup of coffee . |
| 19 | The woman was taking him for a ride , working on him to get what she wanted , and that included Lissa 's destruction . |
| 20 | She was carrying him as a baby along a valley devoid of vegetation and with high hills on each side . |
| 21 | I mean , my mate , he went to hospital cos they said he was allergic to something and they was putting him in a thing that only |
| 22 | He saw the work that I examined and dealt with , and on the Tuesday , I was saluting him as an inspector . |
| 23 | Someone was shaking him by the shoulder as the band played ‘ God Save the King ’ and everyone else in the cinema stood to attention . |
| 24 | Duvall was shaking him by the sleeve , bringing him back . |
| 25 | And again he looked around , this time for the devil who was tempting him with the prospect he most profoundly desired . |
| 26 | Poor love , ’ she smiled faintly , ‘ he was half asleep , and at first when he heard what I had to say he thought I was leaving him in the lurch after all . |
| 27 | He turned towards Sylvia Toye , who was watching him with a smile on her face . |
| 28 | Devlin , in fact , was watching him through a bead curtain at the rear . |
| 29 | She was watching him through the cigarette smoke to judge the effect she was producing . |
| 30 | I like him , I was watching him on the telly the other day , I think he seemed nice . |