Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he were to read it with a less selective eye , he would benefit considerably . |
| 2 | Tufnell was still there to wheel away , but after his earlier successes , he was enduring something of a lean spell . |
| 3 | When she looked back at Petion , she saw that he was watching her with a sympathetic expression . |
| 4 | He was watching her with a glint of amusement in those remarkable eyes . |
| 5 | His voice was low , and she glanced up and saw that he was watching her with a strange kind of intensity . |
| 6 | With a puzzled lift of her head she found he was watching her with a faraway expression in his eyes . |
| 7 | He was watching her with a strange look on his face , half amusement , half something else , and she felt herself bristle . |
| 8 | He was watching her like a cat with a mouse . |
| 9 | If he was to save her from a lifetime 's retreat from life and love he had to move her along the right road as quickly as he dared and as quickly as she would let him . |
| 10 | Simon Evans was hooked on his gameboy from the minute he was given it as a present . |
| 11 | As to whether this was an historically accurate account of American development is beside the point , since he was using it as a debating point . |
| 12 | He was constructing something from a foil ash tray when she approached . |
| 13 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 14 | She understood that he was imagining her in a swimsuit with sleek hair at the local pool or in a short , white dress on a tennis court . |
| 15 | He was telling her about a holiday in Greece instead . |
| 16 | I thought he was telling us about a mountain he climbed . |
| 17 | Laura gave a low moan as she struggled to sit up , one half of her still almost unconscious mind noticing that Ross must have recently had a shower , since his black hair was still damp and he was wearing nothing but a short white towel about his waist . |
| 18 | Essentially he was establishing himself as a figure of imperial stature , as his gold coinage reveals . |
| 19 | In 1964 Mr Wilson presented himself as a radical figure , but by 1974 he was comparing himself to a family doctor , and hoped , in his own words , ‘ to achieve … peace and quiet for the country ’ . |
| 20 | And then , almost at once , his iron control seemed to snap , and he was kissing her with a frenzied , pent-up , impatient longing that was totally beyond anything she 'd ever experienced before . |
| 21 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
| 22 | Ginny could only suppose that Ralph thought he was protecting her from a possible nuisance . |
| 23 | Looking impossibly handsome in his formal wedding clothes , he was surveying her with a fierce intensity that not only made her blush furiously , but caused her pulses to race almost out of control . |
| 24 | He was burning something in a small crucible , watching it bubble . |
| 25 | What he was putting them in a ? |
| 26 | The parchment was illuminated : an Englishman stood waist-deep in an ocean of scalloped rills , drawing a galleon of far greater tonnage than any ship Kit had ever sailed in as if it were a child 's toy boat ; he was pulling it towards a pair of islands , like pease puddings , smoking from their rounded summits on the pretty dish of the sea , garnished with sea creatures : one had a spiralling tusk and frilly fins , another a crocodile 's saw-toothed snout . |
| 27 | ‘ Especially if he was doing it with a few friends . ’ |
| 28 | we 're used to a lot of Shakespeare 's archaisms because he was studying them at A level and Shakespeare 's got so a special sort of band of them that he uses . |
| 29 | The trouble was , of course , that among Henry 's sort of person , a rugby-playing surveyor , for example , or the kind of dentist like David Sprott who was n't afraid to get up on his hind legs at a social gathering and talk , seriously and at length , about teeth , he was considered something of a subversive . |
| 30 | He had no time for the cant of the priests about sin , but he knew , as he lay in the barracks hearing the grunts and panting of his companions , that he was honing himself for a superior form by refusing his body . |