Example sentences of "he was [verb] [prep] [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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1 | He was in the middle of more grief than he could deal with , yet he was piling onto it the commonplace misery of subterfuge , as if he had to protect some clandestine happiness that did n't even exist . |
2 | Giulia told me he was looking at you the way a starving man looks at a plate of pasta . ’ |
3 | Anyhow , he , he bakes bread and he was talking about it the other day and I said oh that 's lovely homemade bread . |
4 | He was staring at it the way a cat looks at a dinner-plate . |
5 | In fact , he was to learn of it the very next day , and he duly performed his own half of the bargain with a strangely honourable integrity . |