Example sentences of "he was [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tufnell was still there to wheel away , but after his earlier successes , he was enduring something of a lean spell . |
| 2 | He was either out and had n't switched on the answering machine or he was tormenting her by ignoring the telephone . |
| 3 | David , feeling that he was learning nothing at Newtown Comprehensive and that his parents ' lives were increasingly centred on London , took a unilateral decision ; he left Clogau , moved into the family flat in Chelsea and enrolled at Holland Park Comprehensive , the most renowned , free-thinking state school of the day . |
| 4 | He was learning something of the dead man 's background , admittedly from a biased witness , but any policeman knows that all witnesses are biased in some degree . |
| 5 | She finished eating , hoping she could elude Roman and get to Dana 's hotel without him , but as soon as she put her cup down he was urging her to her feet . |
| 6 | After all Meredith was not alluding to her , any more than he was casting himself in the role of Caesar . |
| 7 | As he walked he was stuffing them into his mouth . |
| 8 | When she looked back at Petion , she saw that he was watching her with a sympathetic expression . |
| 9 | There was a white line around his mouth and he was watching her with undisguised lust , as if he wanted her and hated himself for being so human . |
| 10 | He was watching her with a glint of amusement in those remarkable eyes . |
| 11 | His voice was low , and she glanced up and saw that he was watching her with a strange kind of intensity . |
| 12 | With a puzzled lift of her head she found he was watching her with a faraway expression in his eyes . |
| 13 | It was hard to conceal the sudden rush of nerves she felt when she saw the way he was watching her with that barely hidden amusement . |
| 14 | He was watching her with eyes that blazed , not with passion but with cold satisfaction . |
| 15 | He was watching her with a strange look on his face , half amusement , half something else , and she felt herself bristle . |
| 16 | That curious flicker was in his eyes again ; he was watching her with an intensity that was unnerving . |
| 17 | He was watching her with that same intensity she 'd seen in his face before , the one that made his eyes seem like dark sapphires . |
| 18 | He was watching her with such quiet intensity that , for just an instant , she felt as if there were no one else in the square but the two of them . |
| 19 | His lean and powerful body was relaxed in the black suit , long legs crossed towards her , chest turned towards her , and he was watching her with narrowed eyes , obviously rearranging his thoughts about her at a rate of knots . |
| 20 | He was watching her like a cat with a mouse . |
| 21 | It was hard to think while he was watching her like that , and even harder to follow the sudden switch in the conversation . |
| 22 | He paused , and Juliet felt he was watching her in the darkness . |
| 23 | The Feldwebel had not moved and I looked all the way up his black leather jack-boots and the thin grey greatcoat with its cheap tin buttons looking as if they had come out of a Christmas pudding before I noticed that his eyes were slightly open and that he was watching me with an uncle 's amusement . |
| 24 | then he was watching him like this then he ran |
| 25 | As Woodroffe recounts , he was watching it from the opposite bank of the narrow stream and was so close that he was worried the vole would hear his receiver pulsing loudly . |
| 26 | Although he believed thoroughly in the ability of these products to fill out the tiny character lines around the eyes and mouth , and to smooth his neck , he did not want to admit he was buying them for himself . |
| 27 | He was demanding something of Meredith , that much was evident . |
| 28 | ‘ He was feeding them to the tigers ! ! ’ |
| 29 | The people knew God did not need to be fed by them — he was feeding them with manna . |
| 30 | This guy who lives round the corner had just come out and he 'd started up in business again and he was laying it on me a gram at a time and I was doing it out in bags . |