Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was shouting out crusty ! . |
| 2 | Hewitt sent out a proposal to 80 carrier companies and within days , he was receiving back positive acknowledgements . |
| 3 | He caught the glint of a smile from Fael-Inis at that , and felt a sudden delight , because the fire was surging up all about them , and Fael-Inis had taken up a stance at the fore of the Chariot , and he was gathering up silken reins between his hands , only the reins were of living colour and shifting light , and there were certainly spells within them as there had certainly been spells in the Chamber of the Looms … |
| 4 | When I saw him stood upright before me , I could not be sure to what extent he was hunched over due to infirmity and what extent due to the habit of accommodating the steeply sloped ceilings of the room . |
| 5 | Now , if he was churning out stunning guitar solos and loads of rhythm variations , a tune lasting eight minutes might be bearable . |
| 6 | All the time he was running up huge bills and wiping out systems all over the world . ’ |
| 7 | He was torn up real bad from all my gunfire . |
| 8 | In a backyard shack in a Dallas suburb , and outside of normal working hours , he was turning out custom-built metal detectors that were of such advanced design for their day , that they wee superior to many of the commercially available machines of the time . |
| 9 | You know it seemed to be that we had a working rule that had functioned reasonably well over the years and all of a sudden he was tearing up various paragraphs that did n't suit him , and altering bits you know and changing them round just to suit the company , and all to our disadvantage . |
| 10 | She 'd known he was growing up peculiar — he did badly at school , and had no friends — but she 'd begun to see , from living in the same house as him again , how different he was from other kids . |
| 11 | And I was thankful that he was coming back alright . |
| 12 | I do n't need to spell it out for you but the assumption is that he was going back drunk and got hit . |