Example sentences of "he [was/were] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time they had risen above the storm , there was a slight smile on his lips , as if he were thinking pleasant thoughts . |
| 2 | He had all the ladders were out the van , and he were using all George 's tools . |
| 3 | ‘ The language of Newton ! ’ he cried , scribbling figures on the blackboard and immediately wiping them off with a damp rag as though he were doing vanishing tricks . |
| 4 | Then he were having some Aunts come from er his Aunts from er Manchester . |
| 5 | For a start he was preaching that assurance was essential for salvation ; that is , you could know within you that you were well and truly saved . |
| 6 | He was preaching that evening at a chapel a couple of miles beyond Burford . |
| 7 | It was claimed that in developing an aggressive new foreign policy , he was disregarding nationalist dreams of recovering control of the mainland . |
| 8 | He was facing stormy Commons scenes this afternoon as he came under more pressure during Prime Minister 's question time . |
| 9 | He suddenly felt he was facing impossible odds . |
| 10 | It was just that it was intriguingly difficult to tell if he was issuing blunt ultimatums to a financial contact , or responding to some emotional problem at the other end of the line … |
| 11 | Frightened by the threat of invasion ( Fears in Solitude ) , he was beginning that slide or jump to the Right which angered and puzzled his liberal associates , though it is fair to say that his revolutionary sympathies , unlike Wordsworth 's , had never been more than superficial . |
| 12 | A spokesman said Mr Wood had opened negotiations with Standard Chartered , a London-based overseas bank , as far back as January , but only told Mr Buxton that he was leaving last Monday . |
| 13 | Erica and Edward had their usual disagreement , and Edward announced that he was leaving next day on more unspecified scientific business . |
| 14 | Sarella followed Peter outside into the courtyard as he was leaving next morning . |
| 15 | At Canton his early success , as commercial agent for opium merchants in India , led to his association with Magniac & Company , and by 1826 he was controlling that firm 's Canton operations . |
| 16 | utterance was taken out of context , and that he was advocating greater involvement by the national parliaments ? |
| 17 | utterance was taken out of context , and that he was advocating greater involvement by the national parliaments ? |
| 18 | Suddenly conscious that he was flashing past vehicles which appeared to be dawdling , he glanced at the speedometer . |
| 19 | The House of Lords held , in effect , that since the applicant was arguing that he had a contractual right under his lease to remain at the lower rent , he was asserting private law rights and so could raise the defence in the possession proceedings in the County Court and did not have to raise it by means of an AJR . |
| 20 | Very shortly before Maxwell embarked on his last voyage on the Lady Ghislaine he was discussing legal matters with the Legal Director of Mirror Group Newspapers , Arthur Davidson . |
| 21 | He was porking this hooker who was also in bed with a Russian spy . ’ |
| 22 | A rumour that he was casting 100 children went round St James 's School in Church Street , so instead of going straight home the girl pupils nipped off to the audition . |
| 23 | He was watching this house at ten o'clock and then told you to follow the two gentlemen who came out of it . ’ |
| 24 | The Turks are particularly skilled at copying all manner of goods , and the young RAOC Supply Specialist Corporal visited six Bedford suppliers in the local town , and drank at least a gallon of cif , before he was satisfied that he was buying genuine Bedford parts ! |
| 25 | Even before the first exit polls came in he was buying new tackle in readiness . |
| 26 | Word spread that he was producing custom-build detectors able to meet the most demanding requirements , and the foundations of the Garrett legend had been laid . |
| 27 | He was stating three things . |
| 28 | Apart from the political overtones and undertones , Nicholson knew he was breaking new ground with one specific sex scene in which he showed full-frontal nudity and a fairly complete filming of the sex act itself , still unheard of in the movies , in spite of the musical Hair . |
| 29 | He was receiving last minute instructions from the professor . |
| 30 | Her husband had been serving in the British Merchant Navy on the Russian Convoy run but after 1943 he was receiving psychiatric treatment in Shropshire somewhere for his nerves . |