Example sentences of "[noun sg] he was [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| 6 | ANDREW Fitton , the chief executive of Braithwaite , has withdrawn the consortium bid he was preparing for Eagle Trust , the Midlands mini-conglomerate currently under investigation by the Serious Fraud Office and the West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 | Another engagement he was hoping to be offered was from Her Majesty — to be detained at her pleasure . |
| 14 | If he knew the effect he was having on her traitorous senses , she 'd die of chagrin . |
| 15 | But Luke did n't seem to notice the effect he was having on her . |
| 16 | ‘ The moustache came to symbolise everything I hated about my character and the effect he was having on me and my marriage . |
| 17 | The doctor gave her a puzzled look , withdrawing the light he was flashing into her eyes for a moment . |
| 18 | At 21 Henry Skelton had his life before him … a brilliant artist and musician he was studying at New College , Oxford . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | However , most of the work he was doing at this time was of a minor nature . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | Yeah and we see a lorry with a bloke he was doing like that looking out the back and we all go Ahhhh ! |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Any one of them could have been the girl he was looking for , with or without a bandage . |
| 28 | It was as if he had suddenly been made to remember just what sort of girl he was talking to . |
| 29 | Li Yuan glanced at the slender folder he was carrying beneath his arm . |
| 30 | The fair hair had faded to a dusty grey , and his skin looked pale and unhealthy , as if he spent too much time indoors , but the green eyes were lusty with life and rebellion against the confines of the wheelchair he was manoeuvring into the room — |