Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could see he was bracing himself for his act . |
| 2 | Anyway , I was using it behind his back . |
| 3 | These , too , had been fated , Wexford 's broken by a pretty young woman who was helping him with his enquiries and Burden 's one day inadvertently put out with the rubbish . |
| 4 | As he was bringing it to his ear , he remembered that he was in his own apartment , alone . |
| 5 | ‘ She was representing him for his life . ’ |
| 6 | He realized that a robot was stripping him of his armour and removing all detectable weapons . |
| 7 | The material was deemed faulty and Mr Martinson was emptying it from his truck when it splashed over him , causing severe burns . |
| 8 | I mean I w when I was dropping dead with exhaustion one evening I said to him look Tony , the there 's I 've cooked a chicken , there 's a big chicken cooling on the table and there there were red sauce , potatoes , gravy , I said , stick the lot on a plate a micro and , you know , film it over , microwave it oh well I sha n't bother to eat anything now of course he was paying me for his food |
| 9 | At once he was contrite , and in seconds he was hurrying her to his car . |
| 10 | In his way — at times — he was directing us to his distance from the script , the movie , the work — ‘ Look ! |
| 11 | As he reached the middle of the trough , the water was forcing itself over his shoulders . |
| 12 | As he walked he was stuffing them into his mouth . |
| 13 | I had queried his dose of Dexamethazone with a nurse earlier , and she assured me he was getting it in his drip , but I have a suspicion that it had been reduced or even forgotten . |
| 14 | Bigwig had raised his head and was supporting himself on his fore-paws alone . |
| 15 | General Francis had risen from his chair by the examination couch and was supporting himself with his sticks . |
| 16 | He was breaking her on his wheel of fire , forcing her with him to a high-point of surrender , then casting her away as if her touch were a contamination . |
| 17 | He was holding her in his arms for warmth . |
| 18 | ‘ The master plan was to put everyone at his ease . ’ |
| 19 | She was facing him across his desk , sitting on the dining-room chair that was specially placed for visitors with troubles . |
| 20 | His aim , in fact , as he freely admitted , was to forget himself in his work . |
| 21 | He was steadying her with his left arm , fumbling with something in his right hand . |
| 22 | She felt safe only when he was treating her with his customary icy rage . |
| 23 | Yuan was saying something in his own tongue to one of his companions , the man Mubarak , who had been renamed Barakai . |
| 24 | If Paul had known what was to befall him on his way to Damascus , he would have taken another road . |
| 25 | Privately , Robbie considered he was over-reacting , that he was blaming her for his own inability to work today . |
| 26 | The teacher in charge claimed that there were at least nine children who ‘ linguistically could be good partials ’ but not one was attaining anything like his or her true linguistic potential . |
| 27 | He let his head roll against the window and she could have believed he was doing something with his eyes to the countryside , the way he had done with his eyebrows to the men . |
| 28 | But he was doing it for his little girl , his Karen , and for her mother , his wife Ruthie . |
| 29 | He had taken a couple of square inches of rock cocaine from wherever he had hidden his supply and was chopping it with his knife on to Trent 's shaving mirror . |
| 30 | Constable Dale Buckingham had just collected the car from the scene of the raid , in Bristol , and was taking it to his police station when he saw two men he suspected of being involved in the raid , and stopped . |