Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [Wh det] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Truman once said he was asked what the job of the presidency involved and Truman once said I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them . |
2 | Hitler no longer seemed to be speaking to convince ; rather , he seemed to feel that he was expressing what the audience , by now transformed into a single mass , expected of him . |
3 | He was realizing what a change Tess 's confession had made to his whole life . |
4 | He was doing what the saint willed . ’ |
5 | He was feeling what the laser would have felt , had it been of flesh and bone . |