Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have also made it absolutely clear that we will ensure that our deterrent is effective and absolutely credible , and that it puts real fear into any potential aggressor about the damage that he could suffer if he were to attack this country . |
| 2 | He was porking this hooker who was also in bed with a Russian spy . ’ |
| 3 | He was watching this house at ten o'clock and then told you to follow the two gentlemen who came out of it . ’ |
| 4 | He was asked this question abotu ten years after the book came out and he said he 'd never do a sequal . |
| 5 | The boat was gone completely , and he was tossed this way and that in the water . |
| 6 | erm , Jay 's sister , Tamsin it 's her twenty first on Monday , so he was , like , write out her birthday card , right , and he was like , trying to write something funny , so he was constructing this thing , like reading it out to me , and half an hour when I first got there . |
| 7 | He was wearing this brace when he won the 1966 German and Dutch grands prix in the Tyrrell Matra . |
| 8 | He was to hold this position for twenty-nine years , combining it with the Treasurership from 1923 until his retirement in 1935 . |
| 9 | He was to hold this position for the next thirty-one years and must therefore be regarded as a founding father of the organization which later became known as MI5 . |
| 10 | He was building this house and he did not know why . |
| 11 | But the point was that he was holding this place in trust , on my behalf . ’ |
| 12 | Despite the piece of paper he was waving this week , committing nine of the 15 republics to keep on talking about the preservation of the union , he has lost the confidence of much of the Communist Party he leads and of the parliament that elected him president . |
| 13 | He was cooking this food , not bringing it in pre-frozen packs . |
| 14 | Well , it now seemed that there was someone he wanted to see in Glasgow , so he was taking this chance to fit that in . |
| 15 | Henry Calverley won the arrow at the first meeting at Scorton , but it was not held there again until 1754 , so it may be that he was keeping this promise . |
| 16 | He was all ready to be wheeled into theatre at Oxford 's John Radcliffe Hospital for an artery replacement in his heart when he was told this afternoon that the operation was off.The intensive care unit bed he would use to recover from after surgery had been taken by another , more urgent case . |
| 17 | Of all the men in Chung Kuo , only he was allowed this richness , this lifelong measure of perfection . |
| 18 | He was accorded this title in March at a meeting in Islamabad of nine warring factions called by Pakistan in an attempt to bring peace to the country . |
| 19 | And you used to see you dad 'll you you more blisters dad get for when he was chopping this lot . |
| 20 | Bringing up the rear was Sid , but even he was subdued this morning . |
| 21 | While he was doing this Maggie took a pan of boiling water from the cooker and laid it by the side of the sink . |
| 22 | It was impossible to tell what he was doing this afternoon . |
| 23 | Caesar will never know how fortunate he was to survive this episode ; Mr Richards could well have attempted to administer him a Mars bar instead . |
| 24 | Fear debilitated , and he would need all his wits and ability at his command , if he was to survive this encounter . |
| 25 | He was hospitalized this Summer after shearing sheep which had been dipped in O Ps . |
| 26 | A look to make your knees go weak , and — oh , hell — he was coming this way . |
| 27 | He was carrying this money around and trying to be flash . |