Example sentences of "he was [verb] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.

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1 He was in the middle of more grief than he could deal with , yet he was piling onto it the commonplace misery of subterfuge , as if he had to protect some clandestine happiness that did n't even exist .
2 At a later interview he was asked for what the Nobel had been awarded ; Eliot replied that he assumed it was for " the entire corpus " and the reporter asked , " When did you publish that ? "
3 Giulia told me he was looking at you the way a starving man looks at a plate of pasta . ’
4 He was deposed by what the Western Church regards as the 8th Ecumenical Council .
5 Anyhow , he , he bakes bread and he was talking about it the other day and I said oh that 's lovely homemade bread .
6 He was staring at it the way a cat looks at a dinner-plate .
7 In fact , he was to learn of it the very next day , and he duly performed his own half of the bargain with a strangely honourable integrity .
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