Example sentences of "he [was/were] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | After all Meredith was not alluding to her , any more than he was casting himself in the role of Caesar . |
| 4 | He paused , and Juliet felt he was watching her in the darkness . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ He was feeding them to the tigers ! ! ’ |
| 7 | He was swinging her into the sailboat , then , with a broad grin , leaping in beside her . |
| 8 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
| 9 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | One time I did and he was tapping me on the shoulder saying , ‘ I 've broken a string ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ He was telling me about the Russian visit . ’ |
| 16 | He was telling her about the Ayatollah , and she was telling him about her convent days . |
| 17 | It was then she realised that he was lambasting her with the tennis racquet . |
| 18 | Our session started out as a posed picture for the photographer but in the end I was showing the former world champion my favourite trick shot — jumping the white over two reds into the middle pocket — and he was advising me about the exact position of the white and then how to pull off one of those complicated round-the-table shots . |
| 19 | He was holding it by the bridle a minute or two later . |
| 20 | He was waving something in the air and laughing . |
| 21 | Yet now he was praising her to the skies . |
| 22 | I walked in there and I can se he had a he had a er some copies and and er he was getting one in the bloody phone ! |
| 23 | He was taking himself to the limit and then pushing on from there . |
| 24 | She was left thinking how hard he was driving himself for the sake of his adoptive family . |
| 25 | Juan quickly established that Avila was nowhere near the rescue base ( had we followed the consul 's directions we would have ended up three hours away ) and within an hour he was driving us into the heart of the Sierra de Gredos . |
| 26 | He was leading her to the edge of the dance-floor . |
| 27 | On long strides he was leading her towards the door , oblivious to her inner anguish . |
| 28 | Then he was leading her across the terrace and through the open doors of the villa , across the drawing-room and out into the hall . |
| 29 | Then I realized he was putting himself into the part . |
| 30 | It symbolized that he was putting himself under the protection of the saint , the patron of his kingdom ; but it also revealed the sort of anomaly which had entered the feudal hierarchy . |