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 | You suggest he was secretly testing it for work on the Antarctic land mass , flying it south over the pack ice . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Naturally , but I could see that he was merely dismissing them as the ravings of an hysterical woman . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He was always taking me to one side , telling me what I should and should n't do . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | Marshall 's hands had once made music — now they could n't — so he was perhaps punishing them with hard labour in a sort of brutal compensation . |
| 17 | The way he said it , it was as if he was only lending it to her in order to have her bring it back again , but she was forced to agree . |
| 18 | He smiled tenderly , and the knowledge that he was only doing it for the benefit of anyone who might be watching sliced deep into the very heart of her . |
| 19 | She knew he had killed one of her countrymen the previous evening , and she supposed he was now preparing himself for all the others he would fight . |
| 20 | He was now presenting himself as a cynical hard-nosed East End wheeler-dealer . |
| 21 | Anger did n't suit her friendly snub face , making her seem out of place in that aloofly cut suit and he realised he was mentally taking it off her . |
| 22 | He was only about two meters away from me and he was like shooting me in the back . |
| 23 | He was usually decrying her for displaying that vice . |
| 24 | He was still holding her by the scruff of the neck . |
| 25 | He was still holding her in the loose circle of his arms and she instantly bridled at the teasing . |
| 26 | ‘ You can let me go now , ’ Jenna said stiffly , reminding him that he was still holding her in arms that were beginning to tighten almost imperceptibly . |
| 27 | He was still watching her across the table . |
| 28 | He was still watching her with that professional expression on his face . |
| 29 | The frustration of what she could only identify as love for him , plus the fact that she 'd given herself to him so completely , mixed with her suspicion that he was still using her in some way to further his own undisclosed purposes , had engendered a turmoil of emotions within her , among which , she was ashamed and horrified to realise , lurked a certain impulse to exercise violence on his person . |
| 30 | But it seems that , I mean , redressing a paper that you know what it says is one thing erm so something like Hillman 's Guardian , he knows what words they are going to use in those headlines and he provides them with a new look for saying those words in , but in many ways his redesign of that paper was erm it was an undynamic one in the sense that he was still providing them with elements which they could bolt together to make a page in a classic broadsheet newspaper way . |