Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adv] [verb] [pos pn] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was already taking his own advice . |
| 2 | Eliot wrote back and discussed the matter ; he was already formulating his own ideas on the general subject — he gave a paper on " The Christian Concept of Education " at a conference in Malvern in January 1941 — but , since they were markedly different from those of Pound , it is probable that he was only humouring him . |
| 3 | He was also suiting his own book . |
| 4 | And after Jim 's death , to be destructive became an attitude , as opposed to what Jim did — playing out a mythic drama where he was really wrestling his own death . |
| 5 | In a way he was only echoing her own thoughts but to hear them spoken aloud and by this unsympathetic stranger was oddly disturbing . |
| 6 | He was now showing his own responsiveness to Dave and Dave 's response in return , which made Mr E more hopeful about him . |
| 7 | Having read again a book he had admired when studying at Edinburgh , a book much concerned with precisely such comparisons and contrasts — his grandfather Brasmus Darwin 's Zoönomia ( 1794–6 ) — he was soon taking its title for the opening heading of his Notebook B , where he was now to pursue his own inquiry into ‘ the laws of life ’ . |
| 8 | He was still wearing his own clothes , too . |