Example sentences of "he was [v-ing] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was scanning the smoky room , fidgeting a little nervously . |
| 2 | We were appearing together at a literary lunch in Cleethorpes — he was promoting the latest edition of his diaries — and someone was playing the organ whilst we were eating . |
| 3 | He was tormenting the thin man . |
| 4 | He was learning the whole time , today one thing , tomorrow another , this year well , next year better . " |
| 5 | Chaca had even spray painted his tag ‘ Chaca ’ on the inside of the lift as he was leaving the criminal court building after being convicted of defacing public property . |
| 6 | De Klerk 's predecessor as State President and leader of the NP , P. W. Botha [ for whose resignation from these posts in 1989 see pp. 36453 , 36837 ] , made known on May 6 that he was leaving the National Party and accused de Klerk of taking " the path of abdication " . |
| 7 | He was accompanying the chief executive of BP Exploration , John Browne , on a trip to the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan where BP and Statoil are discussing offshore developments in the South Caspian Sea with the Azeri government . |
| 8 | He realized that he was supporting the weaker side , and was against the transfer of power to ‘ mere financiers and political economists ’ . |
| 9 | Alun Evans , secretary of the Welsh football association who doubles up as chairman of the UAU committee , said : ‘ I was informed by the chairman of the UAU rugby committee that he was discussing the possible sponsorship of its championship and I received a copy of a proposal … it contained a number of features which were not acceptable to the union and it was therefore with great surprise that we learned a launch for the sponsorship had been called and it was decided that the union could not agree to this action . ’ |
| 10 | He was off the road on a forest track , little-used and thick with dead leaves , and he was watching the failing light through the branches of the trees overhead . |
| 11 | THE Michael Knighton Story , already sold to a tabloid , began publicly as recently as 18 August when it became known that he was buying the controlling interest in Manchester United from Martin Edwards . |
| 12 | He was eyeing the young woman as if she were a — well , a confectionery shop . |
| 13 | He was breaking the French stick , his eyes roving dispassionately over her scantily clad body , and she felt herself blush . |
| 14 | In his own Board , Melling was none the less able to pursue an off-peak pricing policy , despite criticism from the other chairmen that he was breaking the common front against Ministry interference on pricing . |
| 15 | As he responded , Rostov remembered the survey briefing and wondered if he was seeing the first evidence of genetic mutation . |
| 16 | And then , even while she was making valiant efforts to control herself , because for certain he was going to set about strangling her at any moment , after some seconds of looking at her as if staggered , suddenly , and to her amazement , he was seeing the funny side of it also — and he was laughing too ! |
| 17 | Zen seemed to see again that glare of hostility and hear the Questore murmur , ‘ Until today he was handling the Miletti case for us . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Until today he was handling the Miletti case for us . ’ |
| 19 | He was conducting the whole affair with a model of the war zone with cardboard tanks and national flags to identify the blocks of combatants . |
| 20 | He was conducting the whole thing , with a minimum of gesture : a sort of schoolboy Adrian Boult . |
| 21 | In fact he was using the Parsons-White string bender , the one where you pushed down the neck of the guitar and that moved a mechanism which raised the B-string by a tone , but I did n't have a clue about that . |
| 22 | Yeah that 's cos he was using the allen key . |
| 23 | He was using the cordless phone she and David had bought him last Christmas . |
| 24 | The first of these , Sea Change , was awarded the Carnegie Medal in 1948 and in an interview the author explained the way in which he was using the adventure-story genre : |
| 25 | He was using the past tense . |
| 26 | He was using the common coin of the judicial language which is frequently employed to remind the jury of their duty in a serious case and their Lordships do not consider that he overstepped the limits of his obligation to ensure a fair trial . |
| 27 | He was looking the other way , sorting mail . |
| 28 | He was passing the open door , caught the odour of cigarette smoke . |
| 29 | He was passing the open passenger-door of the Volvo , on his way to climb in the boot . |
| 30 | He was meeting the British Rail chairman , Sir Robert Reid , this morning to discuss prompt implementation of the 93 recommendations . |