Example sentences of "he was [v-ing] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to Stephen that he was skipping among the trees . |
| 2 | ‘ He may have done , we 'd not have heard him , ’ said the Leader , ‘ or thought he was shouting at the horses . |
| 3 | One moment he was shouting at the boys in the dorm to keep quiet , the next thing he was in the bathroom retching , then out on the landing , heaving and crying out . |
| 4 | He 'd knocked the pictures crooked and now he was fiddling with the things on Philip 's desk , his pens and Sellotape . |
| 5 | He was referring to the times at Achnacarry when I would on occasion meet the trainees returning from a speed march and pipe them the last two miles back to the camp . |
| 6 | Knowing he was referring to the drugs , Polly recoiled as though he had struck her . |
| 7 | Had the French not been so proud , the anonymous chaplain of Henry V 's household asserted , they would have recognised that earlier defeats which they had experienced ( he was referring to the battles fought at Sluys in 1340 and at Poitiers in 1356 ) , constituted a clear sign of divine arbitrament , and much bloodshed would have been avoided . |
| 8 | The first day Benguiat accused him — Parkinson printed up this sheet as a handout with which the finished examples had the logos that he was exploring in the lectures and one of them was the New York Times magazine , and of course Benguiat had done the original job for the New York Times and the magazine , the other magazine , so he thought that what Parkinson was showing was an example of a redesign , relettering of an existing logo , and perhaps he should n't of said that , you know . |
| 9 | Legend relates that while he was living in the mountains he brewed a hypnotic drink , and after drinking it fell into a deep sleep and dreamed strange dreams . |
| 10 | There were times when he spoke as though he was living in the days of his ancestor , Richard ; regarding himself as a feudal overlord with the power of life and death over his vassals . |
| 11 | Although he did n't say so , Lyn knew he was looking for the marks of Peach 's claws . |
| 12 | And then he told me a hilarious story about the way in which the chairman of the committee , I 'm not sure quite what particular branch in the world he 'd come from but he was looking at the figures , I suppose it was an accountant looking at the , the figures saying now why is it that the amount spent on district nurses has gone up ? |
| 13 | Even when he was looking at the ones like the Carmen at Ivinghoe ) that I think are my best ( or did then ) . |
| 14 | ‘ He was looking at the marks of a ladder just under her window . |
| 15 | In AD 685 St Cuthbert perambulated ‘ illis murum civitatis ’ and also saw a fountain working , implying that there was still a functioning aqueduct ; whether he was looking at the walls of a genuine town or of a fort is arguable . |
| 16 | He was speaking to the women , but looking at Goldman who was kneeling , head lowered . |
| 17 | This Ethiopian , he had come to Jerusalem , he was a , he was a a , go , a Godly man , he was seeking after the things of God , and he had come to Jerusalem on a pilgrimage to worship God , and he was returning home , and he had got hold of the scroll that had Isaiah fifty three in it , and he was reading it , and Philip goes up to the man in the chariot , he said , do you understand what you 're reading ? |
| 18 | Theodore claimed that he was acting on the instructions of Childebert 's magnates . |
| 19 | Now he was joking about the rumours of his marriage . |
| 20 | He was being sick right and he was hanging over the banisters like this these flats and I could n't stop laughing . |
| 21 | He was listening to the sounds of his army gathering ; brown-jerkinned archers ; men-at-arms in conical helmets carrying long spears and quilted jackets ; the shouted orders of his serjeants and the neighing and whinnying of the proud-blooded warhorses . |
| 22 | And the stone seats beside the fire would be replaced with benches , once Cameron brought the rest of the spare timber he had promised from the linen mill he was building for the Flemyngs at Aberfeldy . |
| 23 | And , as he smiled , he was gazing into the eyes of an extraordinarily beautiful dark-haired girl . |
| 24 | After that he 'd come down and hopped through a hole in the fence where the canal ran alongside some waste ground , and now he was staying off the streets as he made his way across town and toward home ground . |
| 25 | Mueller had simply used his privileged position to advise the General Directors that he was operating on the instructions of the President . |
| 26 | And Helmut liked to feel he was stepping in the footprints of celebrated men . |
| 27 | He was thinking of the places under review : Belmodes , his house in Mouncy Street , Rose Hilaire 's flat . |
| 28 | As his feet touched the bottom he was thinking of the tanks the Allies had intended to land on the rocky promontory before him ; clearly this was not possible , for now in the starlight he could see its rock face was impassable . |
| 29 | ‘ Only the pilot will be able to tell us what he was thinking in the seconds before he ejected , ’ said Mr Richard Colley , spokesman for the Upper Heyford base . |
| 30 | " The student did not seem to know how to use the library ; he was mooning about the shelves instead of consulting the index . " |