Example sentences of "he [was/were] [v-ing] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all Meredith was not alluding to her , any more than he was casting himself in the role of Caesar . |
| 2 | He paused , and Juliet felt he was watching her in the darkness . |
| 3 | He was dealing himself in too much . |
| 4 | He was writing something in longhand , the paper turned sideways , the pen flying along the lines away from him at great speed . |
| 5 | He was involving her in something that was tugging at his conscience . |
| 6 | She understood that he was imagining her in a swimsuit with sleek hair at the local pool or in a short , white dress on a tennis court . |
| 7 | He was drowning himself in booze and self-pity . |
| 8 | He was holding her in his arms for warmth . |
| 9 | He was waving something in the air and laughing . |
| 10 | I walked in there and I can se he had a he had a er some copies and and er he was getting one in the bloody phone ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He must n't touch her or she would shatter to pieces , fall on him and ask him why he was ignoring her in favour of her sister . |
| 13 | Mutinously she flicked her gaze back to where he was surveying her in stony silence . |
| 14 | He was burning something in a small crucible , watching it bubble . |
| 15 | What he was putting them in a ? |
| 16 | It was a tray , a black plastic garden seed tray that we call a finds tray , and all then things he was finding he was putting them in there . |
| 17 | The cost of a player in the fantasy league does not reflect his ‘ true ’ value ; for defenders and goalies it 's how many clean sheets , +4 points , or goals conceded — 1 point for each ( but they get points for nipping in the odd goal ; why Irwin is worth 3m and Tony 1.9m ) ; for the midfield and forwards it is how many they score , +3 points , and how many they assist with , +2 points , explaining why Speed is valued higher than Macca , as at the time of setting this up he was putting them in the onion bag . |
| 18 | And he ki he was killing them in the back yard there . |
| 19 | In a suicide note Nguyen Van Hai said that he was killing himself in protest at Hong Kong 's refugee screening policy . |
| 20 | He was losing himself in the grey surf of her eyes , his heart threatening to smother him with its frenzied pounding . |
| 21 | Well he was poking me in the groin . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , Meacher was only acting : he was playing himself in the 1985 TV drama Edge of Darkness , which the BBC is repeating . |
| 23 | He was dipping them in his tea yesterday . |
| 24 | But he was saying it in a way that implied possible assent . |
| 25 | I had to wait about ten minutes while he was interviewing someone in connection with a current case , and then I was taken to his room . |
| 26 | When he came back he was carrying something in his left hand . |