Example sentences of "he was [verb] [adv prt] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was handing over management of three monuments to Dartmoor National Park Authority . |
| 2 | Balor was bellowing for help ; he was calling down vengeance on the Trees and promising that Inchbad and the Robemaker and the Master CuRoi would certainly punish the Trees for this . |
| 3 | His voice became hoarse and the audience began to notice that he was sucking in air loudly between sentences . |
| 4 | Instead he fairly hustled his big body along , as if it were a laggardly prisoner he was escorting down death row . |
| 5 | Soon he was picking up speed as his confidence increased and , cruising at a steady 80 m.p.h. , his whole mind centred on the one burning goal of reaching the sanctuary of the distant Bethlehem House . |
| 6 | In debates over the Labour party 's policy review in 1989 , Mr Kinnock countered complaints from his left wing that he was propping up capitalism with the claim that Labour 's task was to make the market work more efficiently and justly . |
| 7 | In a day of fast-moving developments , Mr Yeltsin also took a shot at Ukraine , with a threat to take the entire Black Sea fleet into Russian hands , and saying he was taking over border troops in the Transcaucasus . |
| 8 | Maurice Cowling has suggested that Law 's resignation was tactical , that he could not face reconciling his party to the coming Irish negotiations , and that he was giving up office so as to be available as an alternative to coalition in the future ; in Gaullist terms he was becoming a Prime Minister " in the reserve of the republic " . |
| 9 | He had , of course , given up cigarettes by the time he had gone into the clinic , but as a result he had abandoned the puritanical principles inculcated into him in youth and had started eating sweets instead ; and this meant that he was putting on weight . |