Example sentences of "he [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And even now the closeness of him was acting like a drug on her tired senses , its effect heightened by a heady mixture of desire and fear . |
| 2 | Jim spoke as if he were telephoning from a golf club instead of a cuckold 's bed . |
| 3 | His swollen upper lip felt enormous and stiff , as though he were recovering from a dental injection . |
| 4 | ‘ Only that he were hiding in the garden . ’ |
| 5 | But the paper was so damp that his pen merely furrowed it , as if he were writing on a slab of butter . |
| 6 | Manciple sounded as if he were apologizing for the other man 's rudeness . |
| 7 | Bedraggled , barefoot , dressed in dirty white ducks , he looked as though he were hovering on the verge of death . |
| 8 | Ruth wanted to reach out and pull him back , as if he were moving towards a precipice . |
| 9 | He felt half excited , half afraid , as though he were delving into a hidden world ; a world which preferred to remain undiscovered ; which might go to any lengths to protect its secrets . |
| 10 | His tone had been matter-of-fact , as if he were reporting to a committee . |
| 11 | Russell 's eyes followed her every move as if he were looking through the sight of a gun . |
| 12 | Do you know , I went in there right and the majority of people never took no blind bit of notice then suddenly one person walked through the door , you know , he 's always playing next to me and he sits down , puts his trumpet there , gets his trumpet on ya , sits there , turns round and the next thing he were laying on the floor going |
| 13 | ‘ I am the Conservatives ’ Jeremy Irons , ’ he murmured as apologetically as if he were standing at the rostrum with a brand new Oscar . |
| 14 | Outside , Goldman was looking down at Schmidt as if he were standing on a cliff 's edge and peering at the drop . |
| 15 | His agitation was plain as he rubbed the palm of one beefy hand against the back of the other , as if he were suffering from a skin irritation . |
| 16 | He were working for an erm Macro or something . |
| 17 | She sat up very straight on the side of the bed and continued to address him as if he were sitting on a mat in the Top Infants , wrestling with difficult , dangerous new concepts like add-ups and take-aways and the precise whereabouts of Australia . |
| 18 | Further on , a hundred yards off-shore , as if he were walking on the water , his companion disturbed the glass-still lagoon as he strode through the shallows over a sand bar . |
| 19 | It gets its name from the fact that it requires a fighter simply to raise his hands in a defensive position and bend his legs slightly , almost as if he were walking down the street . |
| 20 | It was as if he were preparing for the day he would be a big man himself in this town and wanted everyone on his side , wanted them all to think of him as a customer . |
| 21 | It was as if he were going to the edge again of something fresh and new . |
| 22 | His other neighbour 's child-bride kissed her boy hero each morning , in her floating web dressing gown , as if he were going to the Falklands for three months . |
| 23 | I think he were going for a , a month , a month and a half summat like that , and he said it were out of this world . |
| 24 | The only person that she spoke to on the whole crossing was a young man who fell on top of her as she and he were going down the stairs : he was following her , two steps behind , when the boat gave a violent lurch and he missed his footing and crashed into her , and she too missed her footing , and they both sat down together upon the stairs . |
| 25 | She spotted Nahum Morey in his rented pew , his legs outstretched and his head tipped back against the wood as if he were concentrating on the sermon 's message , but she was suddenly aware that their eyes were meeting . |
| 26 | he were running by the shed to eat it ! |
| 27 | Crossing the room as though he were heading for the wardrobe , Angel Four suddenly changed direction , took two swift paces to his right , seized the curtains with both hands and jerked them open . |
| 28 | Ahead and around him as he drifted forward , the melodic light was increasing gradually , growing stronger and brighter as though he were heading for the source . |
| 29 | ‘ No Villanuova has ever had a job , that 's why , ’ he replied as if he were talking to a child . |
| 30 | He felt as if he were pressing against a strong , polarised magnetic force . |