Example sentences of "[adv] he was [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly he was reading the most terrible things about his own wife . |
| 2 | I suppose my shadow calculated that I would soon come in off the streets , or perhaps he was using the opportunity to go through my baggage . |
| 3 | Perhaps he was imagining the whole thing . |
| 4 | Perhaps he was awaiting the chance of revenge for the crack on the head that had been given him … |
| 5 | so he was playing the father you see , and he asks his son to come into the study , and he said , but you do realise so , er that the Hugh Laurie is the son of his , you do realise that you were adopted ? |
| 6 | Thus he was to earn the gratitude of those who , on missing the Looe train at Liskeard , have hurried down the hill to catch up with it at Coombe Junction . |
| 7 | He complained that according to English Law he could not marry a woman , and that thus he was denied the right to marry and found a family . |
| 8 | Soon he was learning the flute . |
| 9 | Yesterday he was offered the chance to pull out of part of it and go home because of his domestic troubles . |
| 10 | He just withdrew to his room ; the more he was questioned the more witless he seemed , muttering about shadows on Kinghorn Ness . ’ |
| 11 | Although some years later he was to describe the kind of people with whom he now associated in a less than enthusiastic manner , it was really only in such company that he could feel any sense of purposefulness . |
| 12 | Years later he was to repeat the closeness of a working relationship with his chief under Alan Lennox-Boyd ( later first Viscount Boyd of Merton , q.v. ) at the Colonial Office . |
| 13 | And while her heart swelled — could he be saying that he thought she was lovely ? — a few seconds later he was steering the Mercedes around a bend and was then at once driving to the other side of the road where a kind of lay-by had been cut into a high mass of rock . |
| 14 | Chief Aviation Ordnanceman John Finn set up a .50 calibre gun and fired on the attackers , he was wounded several times but continued to fight back , later he was awarded the Medal of Honour . |
| 15 | In 1967 an international piano competition bearing his name was established and four years later he was awarded the Erasmus Prize . |
| 16 | Two years later he was awarded the degree of MD by Marischal College . |
| 17 | Half an hour later he was crossing the footbridge from the northern to the southern side of the lines . |
| 18 | Later he was to advise the next Lord Petre on planting around a proposed new home and again he wrote to Bartram for plants . |
| 19 | But if Alexei said that he was not involved , then probably he was telling the truth , otherwise there would be no reason for him to say anything at all . |
| 20 | Now he was criticising the discipline of the men of Tulagai 's personal guard : a force of about a hundred men which was maintained by every one of the Kha-Khan 's grandsons . |
| 21 | Now he was straightening the covers over her as she lay , utterly spent , and he was promising her answers to her unspoken questions in the morning . |
| 22 | Now he was doing the job he was trained for , treating real patients . |
| 23 | Luke had moved into the rug-strewn entrance hall while she was still trying to summon a mood adequate to the demands of the situation , and now he was closing the door . |
| 24 | He had given a speech earlier in the year on the subject of ‘ Constitution Reform in Trinidad and Tobago ’ , at the end of which he appealed for mass action and now he was testing the dedication and organisational abilities of his P.E.G . |
| 25 | Now he was placing the last , low down on her wrist . |
| 26 | Now he was saying the same thing . |
| 27 | The elder who spoke those words was opposing the idea of an Easter communion , but unwittingly he was revealing the attitude of a great many Scots Protestants towards the Lord 's Supper , the name by which many call communion . |
| 28 | Zen seemed to see again that glare of hostility and hear the Questore murmur , ‘ Until today he was handling the Miletti case for us . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Until today he was handling the Miletti case for us . ’ |
| 30 | She watched him stroll away down the corridor as if he had n't a care in the world , knowing full well he was putting the act on for her benefit , and that he must be worrying about the star performer who was also his best friend . |