Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A guardian would be assessed on the stock he was holding on behalf of his wards , as was Francis Brown of Little Casterton , Rutland , in respect of his four brothers and sisters . |
| 2 | With reference to real , external time , by day 9 of the experiment he was acting like a night-worker , even though he always go up at what he called 0800 and then ate breakfast . |
| 3 | Jezrael was n't sure what emotion he was hiding under his alleged repartee , only that she was going to miss it when it was n't around . |
| 4 | Hands tightly clenched , Gina broke into the slow , seductive future he was forecasting for them . |
| 5 | Although he could see no more than the man 's black outline , he sensed it was a rival he was moving towards , one who saw himself as having rights in the moor , even rights of possession over it . |
| 6 | ANDREW Fitton , the chief executive of Braithwaite , has withdrawn the consortium bid he was preparing for Eagle Trust , the Midlands mini-conglomerate currently under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office and the West Midlands fraud squad . |
| 7 | He edged the car he was driving into Peckham High Street . |
| 8 | As I got out of the car he was coming down the steps of Skeldale House and he put a hand on my arm . |
| 9 | A car he was heading for to draw his next breath suddenly drove off . |
| 10 | Even in the compartment he was explaining to the other half dozen men who had no option but to listen , how the New York Giants would have taken both of them on , one after another , and still have had time to take on the Chicago White Soxs as well . |
| 11 | He was well aware of the anthropomorphism and indeed found it satisfying ; it was as though , in the Britches , thigh-deep in lashing nettle and octopus strands of clutching bramble he was coming to grips at last with a great many things and , as often as not , getting the upper hand . |
| 12 | Edward would come and live on Grace , which would save the rent he was paying on his rooms at present ; the girls , once they were not being prayed for at the grotto , would agree to go back to the nuns ; and with Tilda at school she could go out herself and look for a job . |
| 13 | And I did and to be quite honest , I mean it was n't the money really when you think about it because at end of day , forty six pound he were spending in pub anyway . |
| 14 | Another engagement he was hoping to be offered was from Her Majesty — to be detained at her pleasure . |
| 15 | If he knew the effect he was having on her traitorous senses , she 'd die of chagrin . |
| 16 | But Luke did n't seem to notice the effect he was having on her . |
| 17 | ‘ The moustache came to symbolise everything I hated about my character and the effect he was having on me and my marriage . |
| 18 | The doctor gave her a puzzled look , withdrawing the light he was flashing into her eyes for a moment . |
| 19 | At 21 Henry Skelton had his life before him … a brilliant artist and musician he was studying at New College , Oxford . |
| 20 | Under ‘ Thursday ’ , he read of only two engagements : his treat , that is , the lunch he was giving at English 's Oyster House at one o'clock for six of his local party , much travelled Salopians upon whose goodwill , patience and forbearance he had long relied ; and ( here his heart fell ) the National Society of Agents ' dinner at the Metropole Hotel . |
| 21 | However , most of the work he was doing at this time was of a minor nature . |
| 22 | Now in his eighties but cracklingly alert , he is happy alike to talk about his view of Hamlet and his literary friends in the town , the work he was doing in the church , the essays he was writing : there is an irresistible donnish delight in his manner and calmness , the repose of the greatly confident — a quality which was later attributed to Richard . |
| 23 | ‘ Did you say ten past four ? ’ she said weakly , and after a quick nod he was striding down the corridor , to disappear through the swing door that marked the boundary of the endocrine ward 's domain . |
| 24 | Yeah and we see a lorry with a bloke he was doing like that looking out the back and we all go Ahhhh ! |
| 25 | As his feet touched the bottom he was thinking of the tanks the Allies had intended to land on the rocky promontory before him ; clearly this was not possible , for now in the starlight he could see its rock face was impassable . |
| 26 | That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was |
| 27 | And I heard Monks say that he 'd seen Oliver in the street , and that he knew at once Oliver was the child he was looking for , although I could n't hear why . |
| 28 | Early in the month William Wordsworth , returning from Bristol to the home he was sharing near Crewkerne with his sister Dorothy , made a detour into West Somerset to visit Coleridge . |
| 29 | Any one of them could have been the girl he was looking for , with or without a bandage . |
| 30 | It was as if he had suddenly been made to remember just what sort of girl he was talking to . |