Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [pron] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was sending her to face a hostile male and when everything was clearly laid down she was to spy on him — a thing she had refused so loudly . |
| 2 | Minutes afterwards , Fabia was still sitting stunned and hardly able to credit that she was going to Prague with Vendelin Gajdusek — that he was allowing her to use a spare room in his Prague hotel suite ! |
| 3 | On the only occasion he was beaten he finished a good third against older opposition in the Prix de l'Abbaye de Longchamp . |
| 4 | Examined , he was told he had a ‘ mild dose ’ of clap , hardly surprising in the circumstances . |
| 5 | The vet was very kind but had to explain that Lizzie had severe heart failure , repeating himself several times before Marjorie and Bill could comprehend the situation ; he was asking them to make a decision — a decision to end Lizzie 's life . |
| 6 | He was making her feel a bit strange again with his hand on her skin and she was at a decided disadvantage . |
| 7 | ‘ I should n't think there have been any shortage of women in your life who would have been delighted to make a home for you anywhere in the world ! ’ she told him waspishly , disliking the way he was making her feel a little sorry for him . |
| 8 | He was poising himself to launch a final attack on Grant , intending to finish him off at his leisure . |
| 9 | He was coaxing me to walk a bit further without having to carry me , by promising that it was just a bit further . |
| 10 | A WARTIME shell blew off a man 's hand as he was cleaning it to make an umbrella stand . |
| 11 | As he was unmasked he drove a poisoned dagger through Aethis 's heart , and so the eighth Phoenix King was slain by a trusted friend . |
| 12 | She thought that the day he was murdered he received a letter which , she guessed from his reaction to it , was from Canon Wheeler . |