Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he was [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , he had known they would use the Microwave Gun on him ; they always did when he was up in front of somebody , whenever he was at a disadvantage anyway and needed all the help he could get , whenever he was going for an interview for a job , or being asked things by the Social security people or even clerks in the Post Office . |
| 2 | A FEW weeks ago TeleClub featured Kristian Schmid ( Todd in ‘ Neighbours ’ ) and how he was looking for a boy or girl from Northern Ireland to join his Steel Can Recycling Board . |
| 3 | But she saw how he was looking at her , his eyes piercing her . |
| 4 | She saw how he was looking at her , his admiration clouded by concern , and looked away quickly . |
| 5 | She stared at the book-filled wall above the desk , then turned back , seeing how he was looking past her at the same spot . |
| 6 | Mr Stokle described how he was screaming as the car 's interior burned . |
| 7 | How he was laughing at himself and he could hardly get the words out . |
| 8 | Then she saw how he was staring at her habit , and looking at the two grooms . |
| 9 | Dexter explained how he was wavering about the list of suspects : one moment thinking it consisted of only a handful of people and then believing almost anyone in the building could have done it . |
| 10 | Until the mishap he was giving me a great feel and I was delighted how he was going in the blinkers . ’ |
| 11 | They asked him how he was doing at school , made up questions to test him , twitted him about imaginary girlfriends , and there was always someone who wanted to know if he was going to be an RIC man like his dad when he grew up . |
| 12 | Ronnie saw 49-year-old Mick in Los Angeles and asked how he was coping with the separation . |
| 13 | In Andrew Allan 's book of memoirs he relates how he was standing in the lobby of the New York Hotel Algonquin in the summer of 1947 when a man came up to him and said ‘ I 'm Robert Service and I think I recognise you . |
| 14 | Sometimes , when he was staying in friends ’ houses , he suddenly left and hurried back to London . |
| 15 | Did you hear about Gustave 's glove bill in the days when he was prancing by candlelight ? |
| 16 | Once he came out of the Navy , Charles became a little more involved , but it was not really until the end of the decade , after Mountbatten 's death , when he was looking for a real job to do , that Charles took up the reins himself . |
| 17 | His company , a family business , was recently sold against his wishes and the British Steel Challenge was announced at a time when he was looking for a complete change of direction . |
| 18 | I do n't know when he , when he was looking for that old chap , I think one of the girls threw something at him hit him in the eye . |
| 19 | In Francis [ 1982 ] Crim LR 363 , the accused had a stick with him when he demanded entry into a house , but not when he was stealing from a room . |
| 20 | He remembers vaguely about all this from when he was living in the country . |
| 21 | Throughout the years when he was living in London , Le Queux , together with his friend George R. Sims [ q.v. ] , attended every murder trial of note , but crime was not the only interest that attracted his attention . |
| 22 | The Ukrainian superstar had won every major championship since 1983 — with the exception of the European title in 1990 when he was recovering from injury — said : ‘ I had problems with the swirling wind . |
| 23 | The author of the book of Judges shows when he was writing by remarking several times , " In those days there was no king in Israel ; every man did what was right in his own eyes . " |
| 24 | This finding was fully supported by the evidence of Dr. G. , a consultant psychiatrist specialising in anorexia nervosa , who examined W. on the instructions of the Official Solicitor at a time when he was acting as W. 's guardian ad litem . |
| 25 | The most remarkable example of such a deposit in Britain is that at Llyn Cerrig Bach in Anglesey , found by a contractor during the last war when he was digging for peat . |
| 26 | I remember when he was trying on shoes for himself . |
| 27 | Some years before , when he was hunting for a mill in the West Country , and I was on tour with some show or other , he wrote me : |
| 28 | In July 1918 the actor Pierre Bertin , who became a member of the Comédie Française , was introduced to Modigliani one day when he was strolling along the Promenade des Anglais with Zborowski . |
| 29 | Sometimes when he was playing in the house , he would bump into his father by accident . |
| 30 | I suppose over here we were not too aware of his antics when he was playing in france but i suspect UEFA will take all of that into consideration ( he 's already been banned for 10 months ) . |