Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That same day he told me , as if he were giving me a magnificent present , that he thought he could pull strings and have me posted with him . |
| 2 | He said , ‘ Angie … ’ and she stood aside to let him in , lost for words , then followed him to the kitchen , as if he were showing her the way . |
| 3 | She knew he was leaving her the next day , perhaps for ever . |
| 4 | And all the while , while he was handing him the plate of meat and bread , and while he was holding the cup to the trembling lips , a little silvery voice was beating inside Fergus 's head : this is all wrong . |
| 5 | Throwing him a look of haughty disdain , she bent down to push her boots into the ski-bindings , furiously aware that he was watching her every move . |
| 6 | Horribly aware that he was watching her every move , she tentatively slid the skis forward , uttering up a silent word of thanks when they obeyed . |
| 7 | She flicked him a quick glance , then concentrated on lifting two green-patterned mugs from the cupboard and placing them neatly on the marble counter , all too aware that he was watching her every move . |
| 8 | But yesterday he announced he was calling it a day . |
| 9 | She thought he was throwing her a sop and it steeled her . |
| 10 | He was to give him a part which would take him into the West End a few months after leaving school , write a special role for him in what would be his first film , introduce him to his future wife and , through one of his sons , Brook , provide him with a lifelong younger ‘ brother ’ . |
| 11 | Anyway , just after Christmas this guy says er I still want the hotel so Peter said well you better put something down , you ge , better get something so he he went and put fifty thousand as a deposit on it and then said his legal advisers would be in touch and they had a month went by and they never heard anything , so Peter rang up , he was telling me the other day , er , he rang up yeah , go , he does n't want it you know ? |
| 12 | He was telling her the cage door was open but she was still chained to the bars . |
| 13 | Lizzie had bought the kind of steak he liked and now he was cooking it the way he wanted . |
| 14 | Furthermore , he was keeping it a secret until the day he moved out . |
| 15 | I recently asked Lord King of British Airways about his decision to buy Boeing aircraft and United States General Electric aero engines — not only that , but the fact that he was giving them a foothold in Britain at the expense of Rolls-Royce . |
| 16 | Until the mishap he was giving me a great feel and I was delighted how he was going in the blinkers . ’ |
| 17 | Now he s he thought he was giving me the same stuff , I did n't know what I was on , all I knew was I felt twice as bad . |
| 18 | The appellant 's 18 year old daughter was indecently assaulted by the father of her boyfriend , while he was giving her a lift in his van . |
| 19 | He went out , and Merrill sensed that he was giving her a breathing space . |
| 20 | Yet he was giving her a choice , Isabel realised suddenly . |
| 21 | ‘ Good evening , Mr G … ’ she began to reply , but his glance was already away from her shoes , and he was giving her a slightly raised eyebrow look . |
| 22 | And with that sarcastic tone she had always disliked he said he was giving her the answers : he ha.i acquired a duplicate set of keys to help in his research for Eliot . |
| 23 | And from what she could see of him , which was not much , he was giving her the coldest of stares . |
| 24 | Swinging himself into the saddle , Guy turned Chalon 's head towards Winchester and began to consider the various means whereby he could ensure that Isabel belonged to him while he was giving her the time she needed . |
| 25 | He probably was k feeling kind because he thought he was giving you a nice stick . |
| 26 | Erm the , the other thing I noticed was that there is very little or no eye contact at all with Martin so you , you were never really looking at him when you were asking questions or when he was giving you the answers back , so there was no er visual acknowledgement whenever he was , he was coming back to you . |
| 27 | ‘ He was giving us a bad time , though , till you came in . |
| 28 | ‘ All I do know is that when we were on the way here he was asking me a great many questions about what went on in the village . |
| 29 | He was showing me the ships that were lost in the battle . |
| 30 | In showing this place to her and wanting to see her walking in it , he was making her a deep gesture of friendship ; she was sorry that she did not care more . |