Example sentences of "he was [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And let's not forget that Waqar shot out the first four England batsmen in the second innings at The Oval with a new ball — and he was scarcely getting it off line . |
| 2 | By living with ‘ the woman ’ he was undeniably saddling himself with more expense , but consider the gains , he implored . |
| 3 | In fact , he was already discussing it in his office when he discovered that Paramount were in the middle of a feud with Redford and were just about to serve him with a writ . |
| 4 | But he was already leading her to the stairs . |
| 5 | I watched Paul play his second and I 'm sure he was just like us on the 9th , in between clubs . |
| 6 | He told me this foolish theory many times , but really he was just telling it to himself : the less of a woman be made me out to be , the less of a lover he would need to be . |
| 7 | He was just wrapping himself in a garish Hong Kong dressing-gown when the door burst open and a hulking first lieutenant in combat dress , his helmet stuffed with leaves and his face already smeared with camouflage cream , stood staring at him . |
| 8 | Luke had n't mentioned company , she thought , but then he was n't expecting her at this ungodly hour — it was nearly eight already . |
| 9 | Simon said that he was n't expecting me to be spotted by Ferrari that day ; he just wanted me to get round safely . |
| 10 | Surely he was n't accusing her of lying about this , too ? |
| 11 | ‘ No , I know he 's got a navy blue one but he was n't wearing it on Friday night . ’ |
| 12 | So did my father , he was n't to bother himself with the day-to-day things like washing sheets or buying food , that was her job , she made it plain . |
| 13 | ‘ He was n't carrying anything in his hand that I could see . |
| 14 | on the ar , we well you know we 've paid for his education since he was seven because he was n't doing anything at primary school ! |
| 15 | He was n't doing anything on it . |
| 16 | When he wrenched his back he was n't doing anything in the house , when he wrenched his back all he was doing was lifting the carton of the back seat of the car . |
| 17 | He was not using it to further his own human development , he was using it up for the profit of the people who paid him , the anonymous shareholders and their abstract interests . |
| 18 | His argument that he was not displaying it towards another gains strength from the fact that , under section 18 ( which is explicitly concerned with the offence of stirring racial hatred ) the word ‘ display ’ is not similarly qualified . |
| 19 | He was not supporting me in the way I felt he should support me . |
| 20 | In Berry ( No. 2 ) , the applicant , B , had been convicted of making an explosive in circumstances giving rise to the reasonable suspicion that he was not making it for a lawful object . |
| 21 | So he persuaded himself , for it made his own sin less grievous that he was not leading her into temptation too . |
| 22 | He moved and acted , but the springs of his life and the driving force of his actions were not within himself … his strength was being spent on the grindstone of alien work ; he was not putting it to his own account . |
| 23 | You suggest he was secretly testing it for work on the Antarctic land mass , flying it south over the pack ice . |
| 24 | On the other hand , while Franco was selling strategic minerals to Hitler , he was also selling them to the Allies , precisely because he did not want Spain to become the economic satellite of Germany . |
| 25 | He was forever denouncing me during Parliamentary Questions in the most lurid terms but the denunciations were invariably so protracted that even his own side lost interest . |
| 26 | ‘ Naturally , but I could see that he was merely dismissing them as the ravings of an hysterical woman . |
| 27 | He was always inviting me to little supper parties and so on , and it became so noticeable that other people began to make snide comments . |
| 28 | He was always taking me to one side , telling me what I should and should n't do . |
| 29 | Account executives at the insurer , who monitor its agents , had Wright marked down as a man with constant cash flow problems — he was always hassling them for his commission . |
| 30 | that 's right because they 've just released papers after thirty years of work that he was doing for the M O D he was actually doing it in his role as a member of the P R flight , Beaver Brooke sold the government this idea |