Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | He paused , and Juliet felt he was watching her in the darkness . |
| 32 | As Woodroffe recounts , he was watching it from the opposite bank of the narrow stream and was so close that he was worried the vole would hear his receiver pulsing loudly . |
| 33 | ‘ He was feeding them to the tigers ! ! ’ |
| 34 | He was swinging her into the sailboat , then , with a broad grin , leaping in beside her . |
| 35 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
| 36 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
| 37 | As he was conducting them across the dozen or so yards , the Archimandrite appeared to touch Miss Fergusson 's elbow by way of courteous but strictly unnecessary guidance . |
| 38 | And then he was dragging her by the hands , racing across the lawn , nearly pulling her arm from its socket , crashing through the kitchen door , crying aloud so that it sounded like a whoop of triumph . |
| 39 | Later I thought it through and decided a big part of it was that , although he was coining it from the teds , I think he felt he was seen — by his peers — as an artistic cretin . |
| 40 | One time I did and he was tapping me on the shoulder saying , ‘ I 've broken a string ’ . |
| 41 | ‘ He was telling me about the Russian visit . ’ |
| 42 | He was telling her about the Ayatollah , and she was telling him about her convent days . |
| 43 | It was then she realised that he was lambasting her with the tennis racquet . |
| 44 | Our session started out as a posed picture for the photographer but in the end I was showing the former world champion my favourite trick shot — jumping the white over two reds into the middle pocket — and he was advising me about the exact position of the white and then how to pull off one of those complicated round-the-table shots . |
| 45 | He was holding it by the bridle a minute or two later . |
| 46 | In his room at the hotel , he would find a gun and it was emphasised that , after the shooting , he was to replace it in the room as arrangements had been made to dispose of it . |
| 47 | Yet now he was praising her to the skies . |
| 48 | Juan quickly established that Avila was nowhere near the rescue base ( had we followed the consul 's directions we would have ended up three hours away ) and within an hour he was driving us into the heart of the Sierra de Gredos . |
| 49 | He was leading her to the edge of the dance-floor . |
| 50 | On long strides he was leading her towards the door , oblivious to her inner anguish . |
| 51 | Then he was leading her across the terrace and through the open doors of the villa , across the drawing-room and out into the hall . |
| 52 | He was putting them on the game , women and young girls who would otherwise never have dreamt of doing it . |
| 53 | The cost of a player in the fantasy league does not reflect his ‘ true ’ value ; for defenders and goalies it 's how many clean sheets , +4 points , or goals conceded — 1 point for each ( but they get points for nipping in the odd goal ; why Irwin is worth 3m and Tony 1.9m ) ; for the midfield and forwards it is how many they score , +3 points , and how many they assist with , +2 points , explaining why Speed is valued higher than Macca , as at the time of setting this up he was putting them in the onion bag . |
| 54 | Soon he was showing them to the leading head-hunters in employment agencies . |
| 55 | And he ki he was killing them in the back yard there . |
| 56 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with the great reluctance . |
| 57 | If he was still amusing himself , thought Cadfael , he was doing it with the eloquent dignity of archbishops and all the king 's judges . |
| 58 | Meanwhile Dave had gone to pick up the boss from Stuttgart Airport as he was joining us for the weekend . |
| 59 | Well he was poking me in the groin . |
| 60 | He still held his own automatic in his left hand , and he was raising it towards the door as he backed off . |