Example sentences of "[vb past] he [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adam found he was holding both hands clamped over his mouth . |
| 2 | He jabbered away to his friends , and Ellie assumed he was explaining that item number one was a drink . |
| 3 | The Marquis still faces charges of dodging taxi fares , but the case was adjourned after a court heard he was receiving psychiatric treatment . |
| 4 | ‘ I heard he was making some kind of detective story with McQueen . ’ |
| 5 | He suddenly felt he was facing impossible odds . |
| 6 | You felt he was registering unfavourable impressions " . |
| 7 | Apart from the political overtones and undertones , Nicholson knew he was breaking new ground with one specific sex scene in which he showed full-frontal nudity and a fairly complete filming of the sex act itself , still unheard of in the movies , in spite of the musical Hair . |
| 8 | But it 's no way , I mean it was a really wet morning at quarter to seven , it had been raining , and he was right behind a lorry , and he , he , the lorry went to go one way and the he did n't go back because he knew he was going one way and the guy was going the other , he just started to go round to go to the left and bike was just there , he had no way of seeing him or he . |
| 9 | Jasper knew he was allowed extreme latitude in almost everything he did . |
| 10 | ‘ I thought he was designing better places for people to live . ’ |
| 11 | Then I realized he was making some sort of joke and endeavoured to smile appropriately , though I suspect some residue of my bewilderment , not to say shock , remained detectable in my expression . |
| 12 | Secretary of State Warren Christopher said he was sending strong messages to Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Croatian President Franjo Tudjman . |
| 13 | The shooting took place in the Highfield Estate off the Shankill Road and local people said he was hit several times in the head by gunmen who sped from the scene in a car . |
| 14 | Mr Sergei Shakhrai , a key Yeltsin adviser , said he was instigating legal proceedings against Mr Khasbulatov for insulting him in an interview . |
| 15 | I thought Val said he was having three days holiday ? |
| 16 | The new transcription absorbed his waking hours ; but , despite the difficulties , he said he was making slow progress . |