Example sentences of "[vb past] he was [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a puzzled lift of her head she found he was watching her with a faraway expression in his eyes . |
| 2 | A brave staff member believed he was risking his life by throwing it into the street . |
| 3 | Peter Davies , Eastbourne 's captain , told his players on the eve of the event that they were stroking the ball well and that they could upset the odds but added he was booking them out of their hotel . |
| 4 | I noticed he was carrying something wrapped in a cloth and could only have used one hand for balance . |
| 5 | I assumed he was chancing his arm . |
| 6 | Critics claimed he was hoping it would be ignored amid the furore of the US presidential elections . |
| 7 | If this were all that Goody claimed he was saying there would still be problems of definition but it might provide some insight into the specific nature of classical Greece and the specific forms of literacy developed there . |
| 8 | Critics of his move to Arsenal , including Graeme Souness , claimed he was putting his social life , his image and his pop marketability before football . |
| 9 | He claimed he was defending my work , and that every hour spent in society was an hour subtracted from my desk . |
| 10 | The sound of running water ceased and she guessed he was drying his hands . |
| 11 | By the week 's end the proctologist was saying that it had been the best goddamned vacation he had ever taken , and as we passed the bunkering moorings near McIllvanney 's yard I saw him take Ellen aside and I guessed he was offering her a job . |
| 12 | Arthur Ibbetson , the English cameraman who worked with him on several occasions , first notes how alarmed he was to discover what a bad skin Richard had and then enthuses without pause about the shape of his face , his professionalism , his patience . |
| 13 | As he walked he was stuffing them into his mouth . |
| 14 | ‘ Caroline — ’ he spoke without rancour , but she sensed he was guarding his temper , exercising considerable patience ‘ — your mother is a mature adult . |
| 15 | A form arrived with the instruction ‘ State exactly how loss occurred ’ , and I wrote ‘ Lord Haig 's dog Wasp and I were sitting together on a sofa when I discovered he was eating my sweater ’ with the gravest doubts that I would be believed . |
| 16 | R. J. left her with a few of his abstruse sayings , which she believed meant he was telling her not to worry too much ; it was difficult to tell . |
| 17 | He was gazing at the woman with the strange , unblinking stare which meant he was working something out . |
| 18 | But when she glanced at him she saw he was supporting his chin on one hand and gazing directly at her . |
| 19 | He felt he was implementing something conceived by clever brains . |
| 20 | He paused , and Juliet felt he was watching her in the darkness . |
| 21 | In his heart he felt he was betraying something very new and delicate , but he could not stop himself . |
| 22 | He accepted , as he watched the anger rekindle her eyes , that she felt he was blackmailing her . |
| 23 | He felt he was exposing himself ‘ to some danger from hostile forces , one might say , while at the same time having no training or no institutional support … |
| 24 | She felt he was drawing his bow across her heartstrings . |
| 25 | ‘ Many felt he was allowing himself to be misrepresented . ’ |
| 26 | Too many other people were involved and he felt he was losing his grip . |
| 27 | Lesley says Cindy left him because she felt he was tying her to DeKalb . |
| 28 | Coleman felt he was working himself up quite convincingly . |
| 29 | Grace , who was purling in the front circle , gathered he was drawing their attention to the war and the number of dead and maimed . |
| 30 | She knew he was hiding something from her about the cat , something nasty , that should not be spoken of , she was sure . |