Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [adj -er] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They told Jesus how he was getting richer and richer as they got poorer and poorer , and how he did n't have any pity even on people who really could n't afford to pay . |
| 2 | It was ironic that while most of the men I knew seemed inclined to some form of polygamy , Syl , now that he was getting older and had less energy , should have decided on a monogamous relationship with me . |
| 3 | He was driving faster than usual , and Juliet stole a sideways glance at him . |
| 4 | He did not need a stick at this time , for he was feeling better than usual , and his skin would have passed for normal except for some roughness here and there easily attributable to the chafing of clothes or to taking too many baths in hard water without the benefit of bottled body oils sold by any chemist worth the name . |
| 5 | He was feeling lighter and lighter with every second that passed . |
| 6 | He got a chronic pseudomonas infection low down in his lungs , and he was having longer and longer spells in hospital . |