Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew he was leaving her the next day , perhaps for ever . |
| 2 | I remember when he was asked what the principal crop of Thailand was and he answered transistor radios . |
| 3 | Anyway , just after Christmas this guy says er I still want the hotel so Peter said well you better put something down , you ge , better get something so he he went and put fifty thousand as a deposit on it and then said his legal advisers would be in touch and they had a month went by and they never heard anything , so Peter rang up , he was telling me the other day , er , he rang up yeah , go , he does n't want it you know ? |
| 4 | Now he s he thought he was giving me the same stuff , I did n't know what I was on , all I knew was I felt twice as bad . |
| 5 | And from what she could see of him , which was not much , he was giving her the coldest of stares . |