Example sentences of "[vb past] he [was/were] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The temporary flat in which I found him was littered with books . |
| 2 | But in 1937 it switched to Kirov , in honour of a local party commissar ( it transpired he was assassinated by Stalin , who thought him too popular ) . |
| 3 | And he maintained he was sacked on the direct orders of the RUC because they knew he was a security risk . |
| 4 | His eyes were so bright they glowed beneath the sea , and when he moved he was preceded by an evil-smelling fog on the surface of the waves . |
| 5 | Frere stood feeling the park sway around him as he panted , and when the dizzy motion stopped he was looking through the brilliant air at a thatched dwelling , snow-laden , secreted among the trees , its dark jetty seized in ice . |
| 6 | Castenada ( 1970 ) , for example , found he was dealing with new events and totally new ways of understanding . |
| 7 | ‘ Laura 's just an old friend , ’ he said , knowing it was hopeless , that he had blown it or rather that Laura had blown it for him , and found he was speaking to the back of her neck . |
| 8 | Instead he found he was looking at a short , rather stout middle-aged man . |
| 9 | But he found he was listening to the sonata through a hiss . |
| 10 | Ludens , amazed at his own emotion , found he was kneeling on one knee . |
| 11 | Luke found he was staring at Jake Endo 's sandals , wondering how much they could possibly have cost . |
| 12 | He found he was walking as a dog walks , its head twisted round to gaze into its master 's face , waiting for a stick to be thrown , wagging its tail . |
| 13 | All the same when he did return she got a shock when she found he was accompanied by Mike and a complete stranger and that one side of Ace 's face was bruised and swollen . |
| 14 | Looking up , he found he was standing under a short vertical shaft , at the top of which was another trapdoor . |
| 15 | Endill opened his eyes slowly and found he was standing in a little room made entirely of books . |
| 16 | The jury , however , does not ask whether the accused believed he was acting with the relevant state of mind , but under the Theft Acts as well as offences of fraud the jury must acquit if the accused believed that what he did was not dishonest by the standards of ordinary decent people . |
| 17 | ‘ My brother believed he was acting in Sam 's best interests . |
| 18 | Layton , of Regent 's Park , London , believed he was acting in a ‘ perfectly legal and ethical way ’ when he hired KAS to find out more about Europarks . |
| 19 | Another Orkney councillor , Ian MacDonald , believed he was barred from serving on the Social Work Committee because of his continued support for Mrs Kemp . |
| 20 | Rain believed he was reaching towards one of the cups on the table , but Barbara Coleman stood across the table from him and she recoiled . |
| 21 | At first doctors believed he was suffering from little more than sunstroke . |
| 22 | We are like Hans Christian Anderson 's tale of the Emperor who believed he was clothed in the finest garments — but all the time he was naked . |
| 23 | They sought no patent ; they ordered him to give information freely to their customers ; and they denied him the reward to which he believed he was entitled under the terms of his contract . |
| 24 | Susan Coltman , a long-standing friend of Paula , giving evidence on the third day of the trial , said Gilfoyle added he was training to be part of a specialist emergency team dealing specifically with suicides . |
| 25 | When he woke he was lying in Dad 's bed . |
| 26 | A small , fat , rich man sat ogling girls ' legs : he was there most days and represented everything Camille most despised : she thought that he imagined he was living in a Continental fashion . |
| 27 | I mean I imagined he was working in Earl 's Court , you know , pulling pints of Fosters and er |
| 28 | I can not imagine what sort of place this gentleman imagined he was coming to in bringing the latter , but I must say it struck something of an odd note to see in Darlington Hall these two large silent men staring suspiciously in all directions a few yards from wherever the Italian gentleman happened to be . |
| 29 | Endill noticed he was standing beside a thick wooden pole . |
| 30 | His ball had gone into deep rough and I noticed he was walking toward it much faster than usual and he was talking to me faster . |