Example sentences of "he was [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was writing much later than the others . |
| 2 | My other half ordered from a catalogue disc drives to assemble compu , er a home computer and he was looking very carefully cos computer parts can be quite expensive and he was looking at national catalogue for the best prices . |
| 3 | Oh God ! ’ he was yelling aloud now as he stumbled back towards Martin and then stood looking down at him . |
| 4 | But the time came when he reached the age when the farmer had to pay sixpence a week for his insurance stamp , and he was sent back home because the man said he could n't afford it . |
| 5 | An ex-Marxian socialist in post-war Oxford , he was to avow as late as 1957 , in an address to the Fabian Society called Socialism and the Intellectuals , that he had voted Labour in every election since 1945 , and ‘ unless something very unexpected happens , I shall vote Labour to the end of my days — however depraved the Labour candidate may be , and however virtuous his opponent . ’ |
| 6 | He was drunk as often as he was sober and in either condition held an inflated opinion of his abilities , both in bed and on the battlefield . |
| 7 | And he stood and listened to this for a while and then he thought he was delayed long enough so he set off home . |
| 8 | She had reached a zenith of feeling , and really did n't care which hole he was shafting so long as he was inside her . |
| 9 | Abu was an army man in an army jeep , to which he was wedded as intimately as an Indian mahout is wedded to his elephant . |
| 10 | Halifax , however , was always more equivocal ; he was trying as late as the battle for France to keep the option of peace talks open , if they could preserve the independence of the British Empire . |
| 11 | He was waving quite cheerfully when she last saw him . |
| 12 | He was getting back quicker than I thought because he is quite a tall guy , so I had to knock the stumps down as quickly as possible and the quickest way to get there was through the air — and I took it . ’ |
| 13 | I knew he was getting out soon so I was very frightened . |
| 14 | He was vaguely aware that he was driving rather better than usual . |
| 15 | Watching him secretly from under her lashes , she revelled in his evident pleasure , and could n't help wondering whether he was driving so smoothly because he did n't want to wake her … or because he always drove like a man making love . |
| 16 | He was changing less predictably than the tide . |
| 17 | He felt annoyed at first but then he realized that he was running far better than he had been the previous day and that he was n't even trying . |
| 18 | He was breathing more quickly than usual . |
| 19 | Ferdinando was already on his horse , which he was to ride as far as the station . |
| 20 | He was held up again when he needed to turn into Mulfords Hill because no one would let him into the flow . |
| 21 | He was playing well enough till he reached the greens , but his putts would not go in . |
| 22 | It had been eleven months since he 'd seen or spoken to Chester , but he was greeted as effusively as ever , and ushered in . |
| 23 | He was behaving as irrationally as Myeloski . |
| 24 | Edward was demanding that the callers be patient , he was coming as fast as he could . |
| 25 | The bearded man pushed his way through those in front of him until he was standing not more than six inches from the young gunman . |
| 26 | He was smiling grimly now as he came towards her . |
| 27 | But Mr Lawson must have known that the timing of his words meant he was going much further than that . |