Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With glazed eyes he was staring into the middle distance . |
| 2 | Even the pods he was giving to the pigs , he would have liked to have eaten himself . |
| 3 | Two days he was hanging around the place . |
| 4 | But Henry was more concerned about the political repercussions of the advances he was making on the Continent than about the troubles of the church of Canterbury . |
| 5 | She became very busy with the packages he was stacking on the jetty . |
| 6 | And since , unlike many wives of city moguls , she 'd had recent experience at the sharp end of business in the City of London , she understood , only too clearly , the problems he was facing at the present time . |
| 7 | Nilsen was finally arrested when pieces of the corpses he was flushing down the toilet blocked the drain . |
| 8 | I did not even complain to the British Medical Association — as I was in law entitled so to do — about the gross impertinence of a certain toothy and incompetent doctor in this very borough who imagined in his stupidity that I was incapable of reading upside-down the notes he was making on the other side of a desk at which I was once unwise enough to sit . |
| 9 | Within minutes he was helping with the digging . |
| 10 | Then , on sharp , swift strides he was heading for the door , while Shiona continued to stand where she was , rock still , as though rooted to the floor . |
| 11 | The doctor cut off all the drugs he was taking with no ill effects . |
| 12 | Montgomery looked up from the pile of papers he was scrutinising with a small frown . |