Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he were to read it with a less selective eye , he would benefit considerably . |
| 2 | When she looked back at Petion , she saw that he was watching her with a sympathetic expression . |
| 3 | He was watching her with a glint of amusement in those remarkable eyes . |
| 4 | His voice was low , and she glanced up and saw that he was watching her with a strange kind of intensity . |
| 5 | With a puzzled lift of her head she found he was watching her with a faraway expression in his eyes . |
| 6 | He was watching her with a strange look on his face , half amusement , half something else , and she felt herself bristle . |
| 7 | That curious flicker was in his eyes again ; he was watching her with an intensity that was unnerving . |
| 8 | He was watching her like a cat with a mouse . |
| 9 | The Feldwebel had not moved and I looked all the way up his black leather jack-boots and the thin grey greatcoat with its cheap tin buttons looking as if they had come out of a Christmas pudding before I noticed that his eyes were slightly open and that he was watching me with an uncle 's amusement . |
| 10 | If he was to save her from a lifetime 's retreat from life and love he had to move her along the right road as quickly as he dared and as quickly as she would let him . |
| 11 | Simon Evans was hooked on his gameboy from the minute he was given it as a present . |
| 12 | As to whether this was an historically accurate account of American development is beside the point , since he was using it as a debating point . |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps he was using it as an office , ’ the agent suggested , kindly . |
| 14 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 15 | She understood that he was imagining her in a swimsuit with sleek hair at the local pool or in a short , white dress on a tennis court . |
| 16 | He was regarding me with an indulgence that did not convince me . |
| 17 | He was telling her about a holiday in Greece instead . |
| 18 | I thought he was telling us about a mountain he climbed . |
| 19 | As the abrasive words poured into her ears , he was moving her against an ornamental lacquerwork cabinet of hip height and bending her backwards , a hand dealing with the intricacies of her bustier with a sure skill that bore witness to a wealth of experience with even the most esoteric of feminine garments . |
| 20 | And then , almost at once , his iron control seemed to snap , and he was kissing her with a frenzied , pent-up , impatient longing that was totally beyond anything she 'd ever experienced before . |
| 21 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
| 22 | Ginny could only suppose that Ralph thought he was protecting her from a possible nuisance . |
| 23 | Looking impossibly handsome in his formal wedding clothes , he was surveying her with a fierce intensity that not only made her blush furiously , but caused her pulses to race almost out of control . |
| 24 | What he was putting them in a ? |
| 25 | The parchment was illuminated : an Englishman stood waist-deep in an ocean of scalloped rills , drawing a galleon of far greater tonnage than any ship Kit had ever sailed in as if it were a child 's toy boat ; he was pulling it towards a pair of islands , like pease puddings , smoking from their rounded summits on the pretty dish of the sea , garnished with sea creatures : one had a spiralling tusk and frilly fins , another a crocodile 's saw-toothed snout . |
| 26 | ‘ Especially if he was doing it with a few friends . ’ |
| 27 | we 're used to a lot of Shakespeare 's archaisms because he was studying them at A level and Shakespeare 's got so a special sort of band of them that he uses . |
| 28 | The only thing wrong was he was washing them with a hundred octane gasoline , he had a gasoline engine firing exhaust underneath it and he was parked among all our gas trucks . |
| 29 | He was threatening them with an extraordinary general meeting of the club . |
| 30 | He was raising it for a second hit when Nancy rushed forward and , seizing the piece of wood , threw it into the fire . |