Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 2 | He felt precisely as if he were hiding something from her . |
| 3 | She was staring at herself in the mirror in the curtained dressing-room , wondering what a certain gentleman might do and say if he were to see her in it , when she became aware of hushed voices in the salon outside . |
| 4 | The name was spoken with a malevolent hiss , as though he were spitting it from his blood-smeared mouth , so hateful was its foul taste to him . |
| 5 | There used to be a cafe , a cute ; the er you used to go in and have a cup of tea and that and yo , he started selling jam , pots of jam with they had him in court , it was er it had fell off a lorry and he was selling it a bit cheap and er he were telling us about it . |
| 6 | I 've moved that , I moved that so he did n't knock it over cos he were knocking it with his tail . |
| 7 | Such a touching story , Miss Sally-Anne Tunstall — ’ and he spoke her name as though he were striking her with it ‘ — and all a lie . |
| 8 | Johnny 's words had left her feeling inadequate , as though he were presenting her with some enormous challenge which she did not feel equal to meet . |
| 9 | If he were to read it with a less selective eye , he would benefit considerably . |
| 10 | There is a certain grudging margin , to be sure , about all that Mr Eliot writes — as if he were compensating himself for his limitations by a peevish assumption of superiority . |
| 11 | Tufnell was still there to wheel away , but after his earlier successes , he was enduring something of a lean spell . |
| 12 | He was either out and had n't switched on the answering machine or he was tormenting her by ignoring the telephone . |
| 13 | David , feeling that he was learning nothing at Newtown Comprehensive and that his parents ' lives were increasingly centred on London , took a unilateral decision ; he left Clogau , moved into the family flat in Chelsea and enrolled at Holland Park Comprehensive , the most renowned , free-thinking state school of the day . |
| 14 | He was learning something of the dead man 's background , admittedly from a biased witness , but any policeman knows that all witnesses are biased in some degree . |
| 15 | She finished eating , hoping she could elude Roman and get to Dana 's hotel without him , but as soon as she put her cup down he was urging her to her feet . |
| 16 | After all Meredith was not alluding to her , any more than he was casting himself in the role of Caesar . |
| 17 | As he walked he was stuffing them into his mouth . |
| 18 | When she looked back at Petion , she saw that he was watching her with a sympathetic expression . |
| 19 | There was a white line around his mouth and he was watching her with undisguised lust , as if he wanted her and hated himself for being so human . |
| 20 | He was watching her with a glint of amusement in those remarkable eyes . |
| 21 | His voice was low , and she glanced up and saw that he was watching her with a strange kind of intensity . |
| 22 | With a puzzled lift of her head she found he was watching her with a faraway expression in his eyes . |
| 23 | It was hard to conceal the sudden rush of nerves she felt when she saw the way he was watching her with that barely hidden amusement . |
| 24 | He was watching her with eyes that blazed , not with passion but with cold satisfaction . |
| 25 | He was watching her with a strange look on his face , half amusement , half something else , and she felt herself bristle . |
| 26 | That curious flicker was in his eyes again ; he was watching her with an intensity that was unnerving . |
| 27 | He was watching her with that same intensity she 'd seen in his face before , the one that made his eyes seem like dark sapphires . |
| 28 | He was watching her with such quiet intensity that , for just an instant , she felt as if there were no one else in the square but the two of them . |
| 29 | His lean and powerful body was relaxed in the black suit , long legs crossed towards her , chest turned towards her , and he was watching her with narrowed eyes , obviously rearranging his thoughts about her at a rate of knots . |
| 30 | He was watching her like a cat with a mouse . |