Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [indef pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would even say something nice about his new-fangled haircut if he were to say something hopeful to the London borough of Newham . |
| 2 | Twenty minutes later he had reached paragraph 9 when a voice from the next room told him that if he were typing anything other than his bloody resignation he should bloody well do it at a more civilised bloody hour . |
| 3 | Maxim hoped it sounded as if he were hiding something more than the fact that Blagg had n't been able to tell what they were . |
| 4 | He said this as if it were obvious , as if he were explaining something self-evident to a small child . |
| 5 | He was humming something sombre and looking pleased with himself . |
| 6 | Under the slogan ‘ Agitate , Educate , Confederate , ’ Cipriani was in effect , giving voice to a nascent nationalist movement in the West Indies , for he was advocating nothing less than the most rapid possible advancement of West Indians towards self- government . |
| 7 | He was creating something new , as much in his restaurant as in his cookery writing . |
| 8 | ‘ I could see something was there ; Bernard had the persistence to obtain the site , he was doing something positive — already he 'd got a steel frame constructed for a building where the freight was formerly loaded — he was practical and a great motivator at the same time . ’ |
| 9 | I was n't there trying to tell him that he was doing something wrong or that he should n't be doing it . |
| 10 | For once in his life he was doing nothing wrong . |
| 11 | He protested to Law that he was doing everything possible to hold Lancashire steady , but he was actually doing all he could to keep the issue alive , including the sending of a questionnaire to all the Lancashire constituencies . |
| 12 | THE Irish Republic looked set for an early General Election last night despite claims by Prime Minister Albert Reynolds that he was doing everything possible to avoid a poll . |
| 13 | And yet it was when he went on to talk of systems that one felt that he was offering something innovative and new to modern day tennis thinking . |
| 14 | And Nan thought he was saying something rude . |
| 15 | The distinction between this case and Stevenson 's case is that in Stevenson 's case the defendant had a regular practice of selling his ex-rental cars and also in selling those cars he was selling something akin to stock-in-trade . |