Example sentences of "he was [v-ing] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He very rarely spoke about business matters to Georgina and decided on reflection against recounting the day 's events except to say that he was leaving for Istanbul in the morning , and would be away for three or four days . |
| 2 | He was leaving behind ideas of training as a test pilot , which he had kept in mind as a second choice of career , although doubting that he would obtain the necessary academic qualifications . |
| 3 | Lorry driver , he was delivering in Edinburgh at the time of the rape . |
| 4 | ‘ The stewardess thought he was weeping for happiness at being free . |
| 5 | The story goes that he was watching at home with his wife but after the pile-up occurred , he could stand it no more and went out into the garden for the rest of the race . |
| 6 | Last night , he was recovering with relatives in nearby Deganwy . |
| 7 | He was calling to Juliet in the audience , telling her to wake up and watch the play . |
| 8 | He was pretending that the errand was a nuisance , though at the same time he was grinning with pleasure at the thought of taking McIllvanney 's brand new sportsboat to sea . |
| 9 | He was grinning like Pan in a wood . |
| 10 | He was grinning from ear to ear and pointing his finger up to the flies . |
| 11 | ‘ Get on with it , Ruthie , ’ he told her , and though he was grinning from ear to ear she knew what was powering him and she felt the excitement blossom in herself . |
| 12 | He was grinning from ear to ear and the first stabs of doubt needled at Ruth 's heart . |
| 13 | Thus , it is not open to an officer of a company to say that he was dealing as agent on behalf of the company . |
| 14 | Deloittes had been negligent when certifying AWA 's 1986 profits and it had also failed to adequately disclose to directors various matters including books and record deficiences , the existence of ‘ hedges upon hedges ’ , the ability of its foreign exchange dealer Andrew Koval to siphon funds , and the fact that he was dealing in sums of up to $400m . |
| 15 | Maggie glanced anxiously at Felipe but he was riding in silence with Mitch , well in front of them . |
| 16 | He was living in Redruth at the time and the long drive up to the parsonage seemed a very good place for the test . |
| 17 | Erm but the most unfortunate thing that Old Edward the the old chap who owned the place he was living in part of the house and Old Jane , his housekeeper , my mother she could bake bread and wash , her mother had taught her that , but it was making butter that was the problem . |
| 18 | Erm eventually er , one of my teachers in my school had migrated to this country and he was living in Southall at that time and he was working in a bakery . |
| 19 | Ill health dogged his period at St Mary 's , and he returned for a further period of treatment while he was the curate , and in September 1962 he came to Coniston as the Parish priest and significantly , no further setbacks were experienced to his health while he was living in proximity to Coniston Old Man and during the period he was Parish Priest . |
| 20 | Don Getty announced on Sept. 9 that he was resigning as Premier of Alberta and as leader of the province 's governing PCP . |
| 21 | Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici announced on March 6 that he was resigning as leader of the Malta Labour Party ( MLP ) , following its defeat in the elections of Feb. 22 [ see p. 38784 ] ; he proposed George Vella as his successor . |
| 22 | Shevardnadze stunned the Congress by announcing from the podium on Dec. 20 that he was resigning in protest at the ascendency of reactionary forces , and what he called the " onset of dictatorship " . |
| 23 | Filshin claimed that he had been set up , and announced that he was resigning in protest at an " anti-democratic campaign " being waged by the KGB and " central Soviet structures " to discredit the Russian Federation government . |
| 24 | Julio Strassera , who had been the chief prosecutor at the original " dirty war " trials in 1985 , announced that he was resigning in protest as Argentina 's representative to the UN Human Rights Commission . |
| 25 | I have argued elsewhere that Pound was prepared to take instruction , as well as to give it ; that when he first came to London in 1908 , he was looking for masters to whom he might apprentice himself ; that he found them in the Irishman W.B. Yeats and the maverick Englishman Ford Madox Ford ( whose professionalism about writing still denies him in England the recognition that he gets abroad ) ; and ( so I have speculated , though I know it can not be proved ) that Pound sought the same relationship with another Englishman , Laurence Binyon , who was too cagey to go along with the idea . |
| 26 | I know he was looking for Nicola at one stage because he asked if I knew where she 'd gone . |
| 27 | He was looking for space in which to dump two sacks of garden fertiliser . |
| 28 | They say he was looking for evidence of natura naturans ‘ all-creating nature ’ , rather than natura naturata , ‘ the made world ’ ; in certain seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writing of unimpeachable orthodoxy reference is made to anima mundi , a spirit pervading the world and supplying the continuing presence of God . |
| 29 | When Nick Logan at NME advertised for ‘ Hip Young Gunslingers ’ , he was looking for kids like Parsons who could articulate the inarticulate : punk . |
| 30 | He assessed her as if he was looking for flaws in a jewel . |