Example sentences of "he [was/were] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 2 | Tufnell was still there to wheel away , but after his earlier successes , he was enduring something of a lean spell . |
| 3 | He was learning something of the dead man 's background , admittedly from a biased witness , but any policeman knows that all witnesses are biased in some degree . |
| 4 | After all Meredith was not alluding to her , any more than he was casting himself in the role of Caesar . |
| 5 | When she looked back at Petion , she saw that he was watching her with a sympathetic expression . |
| 6 | He was watching her with a glint of amusement in those remarkable eyes . |
| 7 | His voice was low , and she glanced up and saw that he was watching her with a strange kind of intensity . |
| 8 | With a puzzled lift of her head she found he was watching her with a faraway expression in his eyes . |
| 9 | He was watching her with a strange look on his face , half amusement , half something else , and she felt herself bristle . |
| 10 | That curious flicker was in his eyes again ; he was watching her with an intensity that was unnerving . |
| 11 | He was watching her like a cat with a mouse . |
| 12 | He paused , and Juliet felt he was watching her in the darkness . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As Woodroffe recounts , he was watching it from the opposite bank of the narrow stream and was so close that he was worried the vole would hear his receiver pulsing loudly . |
| 15 | ‘ He was feeding them to the tigers ! ! ’ |
| 16 | He was swinging her into the sailboat , then , with a broad grin , leaping in beside her . |
| 17 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
| 18 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
| 19 | As he was conducting them across the dozen or so yards , the Archimandrite appeared to touch Miss Fergusson 's elbow by way of courteous but strictly unnecessary guidance . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps he was using it as an office , ’ the agent suggested , kindly . |
| 22 | He was constructing something from a foil ash tray when she approached . |
| 23 | And then he was dragging her by the hands , racing across the lawn , nearly pulling her arm from its socket , crashing through the kitchen door , crying aloud so that it sounded like a whoop of triumph . |
| 24 | All she wanted to do now was get out of here because it was pretty obvious that this woman had known Felipe when he was enjoying himself on the coast and there was definitely something between them . |
| 25 | Later I thought it through and decided a big part of it was that , although he was coining it from the teds , I think he felt he was seen — by his peers — as an artistic cretin . |
| 26 | He was draining her from every angle , mentally , physically and … and sexually . |
| 27 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 28 | One time I did and he was tapping me on the shoulder saying , ‘ I 've broken a string ’ . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He was regarding me with an indulgence that did not convince me . |