Example sentences of "he was [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I followed him out of the City until I was convinced he was packing up for the day . |
| 2 | Richard 's face was bleeding and she knew he was shouting up at the people . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He wriggled back further on the bed till he was leaning up against the wall . |
| 5 | He was leaning out of the shelter . |
| 6 | He was slapping about with a dustpan and brush , getting up the worst of the spilled coffee and other foods . |
| 7 | Otley 's cavalry twill and brogues were doing their best to keep up and he was breaking out in a sweat . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He was pointing out into the audience as he said it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He was looking round with a vacant look on his face and I was frightened . |
| 13 | Up for re-election in 1952 , he was looking around for a cause that would be electorally popular , and found it in anti-communism . |
| 14 | At the door which led back on to the landing he was looking around for a prop or a wedge to pin it open when he thought of the parcel that he 'd been hugging since the zoo . |
| 15 | He was looking up at the sign over the door . |
| 16 | He was looking down at the pavement outside the house . |
| 17 | It must have been an automatic reaction because he was looking down at the motionless figure and shouting , ‘ Harriet ! ’ |
| 18 | When they had gone , Maria glanced at Luke , but to her relief he was looking down at the photos Florian had left behind , his expression inscrutable . |
| 19 | He was looking out of the window at his lovely new garden , at the exquisite magnolia just breaking into its goblet-like , glowing blooms which were , since Monday , also his . |
| 20 | He was looking out over the prison courtyard , watching the sheets of rain falling , the brightness of the observation lights along the prison walls reflecting in his eyes . |
| 21 | Sitting safe in the big tree , hidden within the protective myriad of bough , branch and leaf , he was submerged in a greenish half-light filtered through layer upon layer of natural growth , and he was looking out from the dimming or dappling shelter of his high cave into the dazzle of a rare summer brightness beyond . |
| 22 | His face was a mask of alarm and he was looking back to the office door and the cabinet which was pushed up against it . |
| 23 | When the twelfth-century bard , Cynddelw , recalled ‘ the clash of Powys … with Oswald ’ , he was looking back on an episode which had considerable significance not only for the Welsh but also for the Mercians . |
| 24 | He was kneeling down by the wall holding out his hand to me . |
| 25 | Fortescue dropped the manuscript he was reading on to the table . |
| 26 | He was hanging out of a Lynx sitting on the side of this with this gun right ? |
| 27 | He was calming down under the influence of Tweed 's self-controlled personality , his off-hand way of talking . |
| 28 | He was holding on to the hand of one of the passengers who was bleeding rather badly . |
| 29 | Instead , he was holding out like a carrot a heart-stopping headlong plunge into a new dimension of existence . |
| 30 | She sensed that he was holding back with a massive effort , suppressing his own hunger with iron discipline . |