Example sentences of "he was [verb] [pron] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David , feeling that he was learning nothing at Newtown Comprehensive and that his parents ' lives were increasingly centred on London , took a unilateral decision ; he left Clogau , moved into the family flat in Chelsea and enrolled at Holland Park Comprehensive , the most renowned , free-thinking state school of the day . |
| 2 | He was watching her with eyes that blazed , not with passion but with cold satisfaction . |
| 3 | He was demanding something of Meredith , that much was evident . |
| 4 | The people knew God did not need to be fed by them — he was feeding them with manna . |
| 5 | It was decided that he was bringing them into disrepute and should be dismissed summarily . |
| 6 | He looked at her with his blue eyes that made you feel you were in the far distance and he was bringing you into focus gradually , like a ball magnetised to drop into his outstretched hand , be clasped by his fingers . |
| 7 | ‘ He was inviting us for Sunday lunch tomorrow . |
| 8 | He was confusing her with Celeste , she thought impatiently . |
| 9 | He was given lots of cuddles because he kept looking at us as if to say ‘ What has happened to me ? ’ ‘ |
| 10 | He was writing something in longhand , the paper turned sideways , the pen flying along the lines away from him at great speed . |
| 11 | Then a long time after that , it was May , and I 'd been the night before , but he was out ( or in bed with someone ? ) and that evening he was in and alone , and we talked some time ( he was telling me about John Minton ) and then he put on an Indian record and we were quiet . |
| 12 | He was drowning himself in booze and self-pity . |
| 13 | Pc Elsegood told Wing he was an off-duty policeman and he was arresting him for assault . |
| 14 | After a couple of minutes , one of them returned and placed a hand on Beattie 's shoulder and said that he was arresting him under Section 10 and Schedule 1 of the Northern Ireland ( Emergency Provisions ) Act . |
| 15 | The ‘ English gentleman ’ star spent five days in hospital with a perforated ulcer — and was told he was drinking himself to death . |
| 16 | Leila did n't have the heart to tell him she doubted whether there 'd be much opportunity for him ever to do that , at least while he was helping her with Ari . |
| 17 | Addressing a special session of the Cortes ( parliament ) on Feb. 1 , Alfonso Guerra , who at no time condoned his brother 's alleged activities , acknowledged that Juan had used the government office but said that this was because he was helping him as deputy secretary of the PSOE , and he denied that private activities had been carried out in the office in his presence or with his knowledge . |
| 18 | He said he was taking him to obedience classes but he was n't . |
| 19 | He was taking her to St Bartholomew 's , the hospital where he was a junior physician . |
| 20 | There were no words in the experience , but he became aware of the fact that he was keeping something at bay ; or another way of looking at it would be that he was wearing some rigid outer clothing , like corsets or a suit of armour . |
| 21 | On the contrary , given the formidable powers he had shown to me , I rather suspected that even during his absence he was keeping me under observation . |
| 22 | He must n't touch her or she would shatter to pieces , fall on him and ask him why he was ignoring her in favour of her sister . |
| 23 | He said to me once , when he was driving me to school , that there was nothing left to believe in these days . |
| 24 | Like cos he was asking me about Shane |
| 25 | But no , he was asking her about Mathilde , about Katherine . |
| 26 | Gyggle also had some good news for me — he was to accompany me to London . |
| 27 | In a suicide note Nguyen Van Hai said that he was killing himself in protest at Hong Kong 's refugee screening policy . |
| 28 | I was perhaps the only one who knew he was doing it for Duke . |
| 29 | He was doing it for Germany . ’ |
| 30 | But she could tell he was doing it for effect , he was still himself . |