Example sentences of "he was [verb] [pron] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember when he was asked what the principal crop of Thailand was and he answered transistor radios . |
| 2 | Anyway , just after Christmas this guy says er I still want the hotel so Peter said well you better put something down , you ge , better get something so he he went and put fifty thousand as a deposit on it and then said his legal advisers would be in touch and they had a month went by and they never heard anything , so Peter rang up , he was telling me the other day , er , he rang up yeah , go , he does n't want it you know ? |
| 3 | Until the mishap he was giving me a great feel and I was delighted how he was going in the blinkers . ’ |
| 4 | He probably was k feeling kind because he thought he was giving you a nice stick . |
| 5 | ‘ He was giving us a bad time , though , till you came in . |
| 6 | ‘ All I do know is that when we were on the way here he was asking me a great many questions about what went on in the village . |
| 7 | In showing this place to her and wanting to see her walking in it , he was making her a deep gesture of friendship ; she was sorry that she did not care more . |
| 8 | And he was offering her a derelict conservatory . |
| 9 | Arthur Ibbetson , the English cameraman who worked with him on several occasions , first notes how alarmed he was to discover what a bad skin Richard had and then enthuses without pause about the shape of his face , his professionalism , his patience . |