Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maxim hoped it sounded as if he were hiding something more than the fact that Blagg had n't been able to tell what they were . |
| 2 | Under the slogan ‘ Agitate , Educate , Confederate , ’ Cipriani was in effect , giving voice to a nascent nationalist movement in the West Indies , for he was advocating nothing less than the most rapid possible advancement of West Indians towards self- government . |
| 3 | And they got an old curtain at the back door and then that 's all you sort of go through across the corner of the kitchen and he was making a bouquet of flowers and er he was setting them all out like and then when he bought it into me it was all set out in a big thing of cellophane and it 'd got two gold strips like |
| 4 | ‘ He was watching it all day on TV . |
| 5 | He was calling me all the time-awful things . |
| 6 | I think er through the figures that he was producing we all realized something was up and various computers flying around the place you know , and the figures produced by them . |
| 7 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
| 8 | When the German war ended he was given his own section trying to break Albanian cypher . |
| 9 | From there it had been only a matter of time until he was given his own prison . |
| 10 | He was such a regular visitor that he was given his own pit boots and locker . |
| 11 | He was conducting his own investigation . |
| 12 | According to a posthumous account of Mozart 's last months , he and Constanze drove out to the Prater one fine day at the end of October , during which Mozart told his wife that he was convinced he was writing his own Requiem . |
| 13 | He was acting in plays , he was writing his own plays , he was reading books , he was meeting other writers , making friends … |
| 14 | I said I thought he was using his own . |
| 15 | yes it was a movie picture , yes been showing here , because when she said she was blind , I thought well what 's the good , but she said oh well , he , when he runs it through he sort of explains to , but he was using it all the time was n't he ? |
| 16 | How generous he was to acknowledge his own defeat , when he asked one of his rivals -Parrhasius — to draw back the curtain and unveil the portrait underneath , and was told by the artist that the curtain itself was painted . |
| 17 | ‘ But he sees me the other way — he spoke of another photograph — he was telling me that … ’ |
| 18 | She cocked her head slightly to one side , staring at Corbett , a slight smile on her lips as if he was telling her some merry jest or interesting tale . |
| 19 | He was telling his former teacher about his new job . |
| 20 | Mrs Robinson yesterday said : ‘ Mr Fallon was definitely wrong , he was reading his own figures wrongly , but whatever the statistics that wo n't give us one more nursery place . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I told him that whilst he was dating my own sister it was quite out of the question . |
| 22 | But there was also a sense in which he despised fame even as he obtained it , and when in this year he described Mark Twain as a man who wanted success or reputation and yet at the same time " resented their violation of his integrity " , there can be little doubt that once again he was expressing his own feelings through the agency of another 's . |
| 23 | Soon afterwards he was building his own telescopes , at which , like most things he turns his hand to , he excels . |
| 24 | She was completely at a loss to know how to deal with this man — even more at a loss to know just why he was affecting her this way . |
| 25 | His sideways glance told her he 'd noticed the manoeuvre but he merely smiled as if , knowing he could curtail it at any time , he was allowing her that small freedom . |
| 26 | He was taking it all so coolly , his mistress away with a past lover . |
| 27 | Because there was nothing left any more for him to care about , and if his attitude over the past forty-eight bours was anything to go by , he was keeping it that way . |
| 28 | Gilbey , who is involved with Formula One 's Team Lotus , said he was leading his own life and was not involved in the future plans of the princess . |
| 29 | Perhaps he was contemplating his own life with Vivien here just as , when he connected McKnight Kauffer 's death with a sense of " the void " , he was once again returning to his own feeling of emptiness which had played so large a part in his religious conversion . |
| 30 | As writer of a weekly newspaper column , he was allowed his own room in hotels , and from the corridor could be heard above the typewriter coughing away as he smoked one cigarette after another . |