Example sentences of "he was [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marlow himself , listening to Jim 's confused , hesitant version of the affair as the court-martial proceeds , realises that ‘ with every instant he was penetrating deeper into the impossible world of romantic achievements ’ and cuts across the young man 's evident yearning to make some heroic restitution by the blunt reminder , ‘ If you had stuck to the ship , you mean ! ’ |
| 2 | The river dream came to him again , he was wading deep into the current , its coldness griped him by the crutch , shocking him , he must reach that bluish hovering light on the far bank — trees towering above — a house , a tall bulky building towering above him … |
| 3 | I followed him out of the City until I was convinced he was packing up for the day . |
| 4 | At the last festival , Ib Anderson was the undoubted star , and we were told he was leaving immediately after the festival to join New York City ballet . |
| 5 | He had been so proud and happy to be returning to his family with the news of his impending marriage , yet now he was leaving home as an outcast . |
| 6 | Richard 's face was bleeding and she knew he was shouting up at the people . |
| 7 | Pearce and Duvall were blurred figures beside the wreck , distinguishable only in that Duvall was carrying the paraffin containers , which he was setting down on the pavement . |
| 8 | He was leaning forward across the table , staring at me with a sort of frustrated belligerence . |
| 9 | He wriggled back further on the bed till he was leaning up against the wall . |
| 10 | He was leaning casually against a nearby brick pillar , his dark eyes watching her carefully . |
| 11 | He was leaning comfortably into the corner of his seat reading the unmistakable pages of the London Financial Times . |
| 12 | When she looked up he was leaning elegantly against the table , watching her . |
| 13 | He was leaning out of the shelter . |
| 14 | He was leaning nonchalantly against the open door , looking , she noticed disgustingly , fresh and handsome , despite the late hour . |
| 15 | In this instance he was referring chiefly to the international press . |
| 16 | He was slapping about with a dustpan and brush , getting up the worst of the spilled coffee and other foods . |
| 17 | He vanished again behind the boat-house , and when I saw him again he was aiming fast for the cliff path , with the bag once again slung over his shoulder . |
| 18 | One minute he was busking away on the cabaret circuit , the next he was on late-night TV , and then suddenly he was grinning all over the tabloids . |
| 19 | Otley 's cavalry twill and brogues were doing their best to keep up and he was breaking out in a sweat . |
| 20 | He swivelled from joist to joist , raker to rafter , feeling horribly like a monkey and getting very cold feet in the process even though he was breaking out in a sweat at the same time . |
| 21 | Wayne number two was sitting — or rather , slumped — in the dining alcove of the deck saloon , and he was leaking all over the expensive-looking upholstery . |
| 22 | He was pointing across to the Mudchute , explaining what happened . |
| 23 | He was pointing out into the audience as he said it . |
| 24 | He heard again the noise of doors opening , voices , saw a light streaming across the street , and he was scrambling frantically over the bomb-site , tripping over a pile of rubble , tearing his coat on a fence , and running down the shockingly open street , running for his life . |
| 25 | She certainly did n't like to say that he was living there with a girl . |
| 26 | He 'd probably never been to Brixton before — I could tell that from the way he was sinking down in the back of Armstrong the farther along Effra Road we got . |
| 27 | It occurred to him as he was crashing about in the cupboard among his own old mackintoshes , tennis racquets , gum boots , and broken picture frames that he might be doing the wrong thing . |
| 28 | A : to give him and he was writing just at the beginning he was — writing the whole — for each year of his life he wrote something in that had — had been invented or + |
| 29 | Freud fails to mention explicitly the way in which nationalism may exhibit these characteristics too , even though he was writing just after the end of the First World War . |
| 30 | He was looking round with a vacant look on his face and I was frightened . |