Example sentences of "he was [verb] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was bound to remember you with a little legacy . |
| 2 | Something about the man aroused the guard 's suspicions , so he was asked to accompany them to the frontier post for further questioning . |
| 3 | And he called it the well he was asked to make one for other blacksmiths . |
| 4 | While he was thinking how to do this , he was asked to bring me to the palace . |
| 5 | One they were going into a pub , and going into the toilets , you know , making a , so he had a a policeman waiting in and the toilets , for them you see , and the o one other , notable occasion he was seen chasing them down the main street in Morley , he got his cape on , you see , |
| 6 | His invention of photogenic drawing dated back four years earlier but he was spurred to bring it to the attention of the scientific world by the announcement by the Frenchman Daguerre of his revolutionary invention , the Daguerreotype . |
| 7 | As home secretary , he had psyched himself up to batter the police unions and the chief constables , but on penal policy he was pushed to find anything in the agenda of Tony Blair , his Labour counterpart , to quarrel with . |
| 8 | This man she 's married finally came to his senses , but he was refusing to marry her at one point . |
| 9 | It certainly was n't because he was trying to save her from a Fate Worse than Death . |
| 10 | Merrill sensed that he was trying to put her at her ease , building a bridge over the rift that divided them , to get the evening off to a good start . |
| 11 | He was trying to put her in the wrong again . |
| 12 | He was trying to hold it to his chest . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh Simon ! ’ he said , looking at my face as if he was trying to memorize it for some exam . |
| 14 | He was trying to move it off the path . |
| 15 | Atrimonides was grabbing wildly at her , desperately flailing his hands and feet , and Cheryl realized he was trying to use her as a reaction mass to slow his own fall . |
| 16 | One minute he was kissing her as if he never wanted it to stop , and the next he was trying to protect her in some cryptic , jaded way from a danger that seemed clear to him but was a mystery to her . |
| 17 | But Rochester did er did er , when he was trying to rebuke himself for committing what was bigamy , and the works , he said , when he compared his own wife , who was really a mental animal because she very bestial the way she bit people , and then , he compared her with this sweet , dewy-eyed Jane , he did give a reason did n't he ? |
| 18 | The words were spoken with a provocative , sidelong glance and Melissa was sure that , just for the hell of it , he was trying to trick her into questioning him over his relationship with Rose . |
| 19 | From what Morse said it looks as though he was trying to flog it in some under-the-counter deal , but I do n't see how it helps us . ’ |
| 20 | He huddled up as if he was trying to roll himself into a ball . |
| 21 | He was trying to convince him of something and kept at it . |
| 22 | Days later I realised he was trying to tell me about the Brighton bombing ; it had occurred the same morning . |
| 23 | For all the importance that de Gaulle attached to securing the support of the Resistance , he was determined to secure it on his terms , i.e. in such a way as to reinforce his leadership and legitimize his movement before world opinion . |
| 24 | He was determined to torment her in any way he could . |
| 25 | Back with his own cast , he was determined to keep them at it as long as possible , fulfilling his own need for manic activity . |
| 26 | In some ways Donaldson realised that it was he that was actually doing all the learning-Bobo was using a vocabulary that she 'd already acquired , whilst he was struggling to adapt himself to it . |
| 27 | He was struggling to pull something to the top of the dunes . |
| 28 | Equally interestingly , Mr E felt he was managing to convey something of his greater hopefulness to Dave 's mother , using insight-promoting questions when she kept praising her daughter and complaining about Dave , and asking , for instance : ‘ What are the things you can be nice to him about at home ? |
| 29 | She could not possibly have known the misery such a revelation would cause him , because now he was forbidden to call her by any other name and he knew from painful experience that Tom Fish would not relent until he had his way . |
| 30 | She saw his hands curl into white-knuckled fists and knew he was fighting to keep them at his sides . |