Example sentences of "he [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the second last she put in a tremendous leap and was back in the lead as Run And Skip started to fade , but Forgive 'N Forget on the stands side and Wayward Lad inside him were now going for home , and they passed Dawn Run on the approach to the last . |
| 2 | The trash and wreckage before him was now shivering with fire as he stood , hands on hips , watching all his powers gather in the smoke . |
| 3 | It would be much simpler if he were simply talking about the relationship between the legislative and the executive cos here he could say right , if the executive gets out of hand and starts acting arbitrarily and tyrannically , then the legislative acting on behalf of the people as a whole can take action as indeed parliament did during the civil wars . |
| 4 | Well I took it out , a load of it out this morning in my hand cos he were nearly sitting on it ! |
| 5 | He got the sack , cos he got up and left his job overslept and annoyed erm Rachael because she woke him up twice and said come on you 've got to go to work , he said alright then , she , she went back to bed thinking he 'd get up and of course he were still laying in bed , I woke him up at five to eleven , said come on you 're an hour late , but when he got down there they said no it 's no good you 've got the sack , and he said well it 's your own fault then cos you were woke up twice by Rachael at nine o'clock , he had n't , he could have got up and gone to work , just idle we met him twice , it really upset him |
| 6 | It was as if he were still competing for Martha : every return to harbour became a race between his ketch and Sam 's ; every catch had to be compared for weight and quality , and every new little luxury Harry purchased for himself or his wife had to be announced that evening in the Russell alehouse as further proof of his superiority . |
| 7 | But he were really going at it you know . |
| 8 | He was conspicuously trying to be brave , but it was quite clear he had been devastated by the experience . |
| 9 | This was what he 'd wanted of her all the time ; now , he was finally getting to it , baiting the trap not with jewels or furs but with what he assumed would matter to her . |
| 10 | He was softly laughing at her . |
| 11 | He was both listening to suggestions and putting forward names that other people had suggested . |
| 12 | Now he was scarcely talking to her , but more to himself , analysing and defining as always . |
| 13 | Concerned as to whether he was adequately looking after himself , but especially concerned as to his future as a writer . |
| 14 | Gould lost no time venturing into the field , taking with him on some excursions his nephew Henry , who was understandably thrilled by the prospect of driving bullock carts ; his servant James , who he was zealously training in the art of taxidermy ; and sometimes his assistant Gilbert . |
| 15 | What had this Richard Blake said , well , she got the impression that he was counting on coming to a series of Transatlantic insurance conferences in the spring , and he was either coming to Montreal first , or to New York , she could n't remember which order it was , search me , said Louise , she had n't thought it mattered all that much . |
| 16 | According to Stanley Turner , curator of the Michael Peto archive at Dundee University , ‘ he was continuously searching for the vision of a monumental human form to epitomise the universality of whatever scene , situation or event he was out to capture … always intent on raising his workday subjects from fleeting , mundane , accidental movement into symbolic representatives of their class or profession . ’ |
| 17 | Cowley picked up a photograph of a sombre looking man of about forty , his face registering all the discomfort he was probably feeling in wedding suit and stiff shirt . |
| 18 | He joined Scott and Moffatt as an assistant in 1841 , but by the time of the Foreign and India Office commission , he was probably working on a freelance basis , as he was not mentioned by Jackson , nor was he included in a list of members of the office sketch club in 1866 . |
| 19 | He was openly laughing at her , and she wished she could push him into the sea . |
| 20 | He was regularly attending to the pumps on Sundays for which he was paid 1/ the " stem " , or day , and he assisted in the workings by wheelbarrowing and other miscellaneous jobs . |
| 21 | Ten minutes after the lecture as he was jovially chatting with the conferees a cry went up ‘ the cannabis has been nicked ! ’ |
| 22 | he was exactly acting in general |
| 23 | These he made as aquatints , and the next series followed in 1796 — Series of Picturesque Views of the North of England , where by 1796 , the survey over , he informed the public that he was leaving behind his previous work and going to be a drawing master once again , but at 3 Lad Lane where he was again living with Hartley his half-brother . |
| 24 | In August he was again complaining of tiredness ; there was no doubt that like most other Englishmen he was experiencing what he described in another context as a general weariness of war and desire for peace . |
| 25 | For he halted only to slam the door fast behind him , then , having imprisoned her in her room , he was again coming after her . |
| 26 | Within a year of the restructuring , he was again running with another controversial issue : merging the firm with Peats . |
| 27 | He came home from school some days later and said he had been ‘ thinking very seriously about our situation ’ — he was already beginning to be pompous — and that it was quite obvious that some women were unsuited to a life which held nothing but home and children . |
| 28 | At this time he was already experimenting with voltaic cells , electrical machines and kites , and the electro-deposition of metals . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm not going anywhere until I find out what happened , Joe , ’ she warned him , but he was already nodding in agreement . |
| 30 | By 1633 he was already moving in court circles . |