Example sentences of "he [was/were] [v-ing] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the taxi , while he was dropping her at her small house in Fulham , she made an effort to regain some inch of the indispensable contact she had squandered , but there seemed no way of doing it . |
| 2 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
| 3 | Benjamin 's eyes narrowed as if , for the first time , he was judging me at my real worth . |
| 4 | we 're used to a lot of Shakespeare 's archaisms because he was studying them at A level and Shakespeare 's got so a special sort of band of them that he uses . |
| 5 | The official story is that he was playing it at a party and people wanted to hear it over and over . |
| 6 | Ian said he was fetching her at lunchtime . ’ |