Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was searching for a complete lyricist who could add flavour to songs he was intending to be covered by bigger artists . |
| 2 | He guessed that these effects might be due to intoxication by one of the compounds he was working with , and confirmed his idea by deliberate experiment . |
| 3 | As he turned to return down the steps he was thinking of Carrie once more and not taking care where he was stepping . |
| 4 | With glazed eyes he was staring into the middle distance . |
| 5 | Even the pods he was giving to the pigs , he would have liked to have eaten himself . |
| 6 | He continually told his parents he was going to be famous but , like legions of other parents before them , they treated his claims with contempt . |
| 7 | I only once went into his garden , a beautifully kept one , even in war-time , when he kindly picked a bunch of tulips for me and showed me some new potatoes he was growing in pots in the greenhouse . |
| 8 | Two days he was hanging around the place . |
| 9 | Coleridge and Sara began their married life more conventionally , and within a few days he was writing in enraptured terms to Tom Poole from their ‘ comfortable Cot ’ in Clevedon : ‘ the prospect around us is perhaps more various than any in the kingdom — Mine Eye gluttonizes. — The Sea — the distant Islands ! the opposite Coasts ! — I shall assuredly write Rhymes — let the nine Muses prevent it , if they can . ’ |
| 10 | But Henry was more concerned about the political repercussions of the advances he was making on the Continent than about the troubles of the church of Canterbury . |
| 11 | Edward 's trouble was that the tell-tales he was looking for , the subtle marks of treachery , were the main — and open — subject of the conversation . |
| 12 | She became very busy with the packages he was stacking on the jetty . |
| 13 | and he was n't gon na go football tomorrow but he 's got ta go cos if he do n't go he 's letting the team go because things he was saying to my mother last week , well you would n't believe it . |
| 14 | She found his sophistication so overwhelming that she needed a space in order to assimilate all the things he was introducing into her life . |
| 15 | Yeah now that 's , that 's probably worth mentioning to Dave because I think one of the things he was talking about doing was instead of one of the tests or something making people hand in either some sort of lab book or some sort of record of the practical so far this term erm |
| 16 | I 'd 've loved to have been that pillow , I really would er things he was doing to this pillow it was |
| 17 | And since , unlike many wives of city moguls , she 'd had recent experience at the sharp end of business in the City of London , she understood , only too clearly , the problems he was facing at the present time . |
| 18 | John was out of his mind , running up and down the corridor , telling total strangers he was going to Disneyland . |
| 19 | Nevertheless there was no differentiation in the shop between the fire and other goods he was selling in his secondary line of business . |
| 20 | Ken persuaded him to cut the portions he was making for Orton and himself into three . |
| 21 | JAMES Gilbey , the man linked with the Princess of Wales , last night laughed off suggestions he was going to be her public escort . |
| 22 | Nilsen was finally arrested when pieces of the corpses he was flushing down the toilet blocked the drain . |
| 23 | He looked an elegant stranger in his charcoal-grey suit , silk shirt and tie , and not least in the Gucci loafers he was wearing on his feet . |
| 24 | Guided by his new-found friend , Charles studied Jung and also the work of economist and philosopher E. F. Schumacher , who wrote a book entitled Small Is Beautiful ; over the years the Prince has found many of the answers he was searching for . |
| 25 | Philip Sessarago , who 's in his thirties , left Hereford late last year telling friends he was looking for security work in the former Yugoslavia . |
| 26 | The fingers he was scratching under his arm with were crossed . |
| 27 | I did not even complain to the British Medical Association — as I was in law entitled so to do — about the gross impertinence of a certain toothy and incompetent doctor in this very borough who imagined in his stupidity that I was incapable of reading upside-down the notes he was making on the other side of a desk at which I was once unwise enough to sit . |
| 28 | When he next spoke it was about something trivial , and Alyssia replied in the same vein , stifling the burning curiosity to find out what dark secrets he was keeping behind that controlled face of his . |
| 29 | In Edie 's company Minton had drinks with H. E. Bates in 1949 , at his home at Great Chart , in connection with the illustrations he was designing for Bates 's The Country Heart , a revised compilation of his two previous books , O More than Happy Countryman and The Heart of the Country . |
| 30 | minutes he was looking through all the advertisements for civil engineering . |