Example sentences of "he was [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He started to realize that he was experiencing sensations from parts of his body which he had thought had ceased to function . |
| 2 | He was to visit units of all the three divisions in the Corps area , each of which was to be concerned with the repatriations . |
| 3 | But Guido was there all right ; he must have come back without Ronni knowing , and he was facing Silvia in the enormous hallway , a fulminating tower of bristling black anger . |
| 4 | He was wiping blood from his face and seemed to have been fighting . |
| 5 | Though it is rare to find consensus among footballers and the media , few on either side had a good , or even printable , word for Toshack in Wales while he was marching Swansea to the top of the hill and down again . |
| 6 | He was eating sweetmeats from a silver dish and , whilst Benjamin and I knelt before him , he kept popping them into his mouth , watching us impassively . |
| 7 | He was pestering people at the bar , trying to butt into their conversations or sit down at their tables and behaving — as far as people who did not know he was ill were concerned — like an archetypal northern wally . |
| 8 | ft informed us that he was leaving Salamanca for England on his motor bike , via Cherbourg , and that we could expect him in Bath on a certain day . |
| 9 | He was shouting obscenities at her . ’ |
| 10 | He handles it with the familiarity of a mother with her baby , yet he has a look in his eyes as if he was removing specks of vomit . |
| 11 | He was delivering milk to houses in Cheltenham in the early hours of this morning , when 2 men pounced on him , demanding cash . |
| 12 | Adrian Stayte 's eyelids were stuck together when two men pounced on him as he was delivering milk in Cheltenham yesterday . |
| 13 | He had reached the top : he was standing on a rock , he was brandishing his chainsword , he was roaring defiance at enemies Defries could n't see . |
| 14 | He was raining kicks into all the softer bits of the body chosen by the being who was to bring death to our world . |
| 15 | As he was already behind in mastering the basic skills which lay the foundation for all further work , he felt that Balbinder needed a lot of help if he was to do justice to his abilities . |
| 16 | Also in February he was discussing ideas for a Botticelli ballet and for a Debussy ballet ; these eventually coalesced into one idea , Primavera . |
| 17 | It was not that he posed any real threat ( although he was discussing collaboration with moderate socialist exiles ) . |
| 18 | Was it just that he was obeying orders from above ? |
| 19 | The next year he was buying property in Enfield , Middlesex , but seems to have fallen victim to the Black Death on 3 June 1349 . |
| 20 | Wearing a duffel coat over yesterday 's military outfit , he was feeding hazelnuts to a squirrel . |
| 21 | To save his neck and protect his family was perhaps not the noblest of motives for coming forward as a witness , but if the DEA had not sought to frame him under the misapprehension that he was feeding information to Pan Am and the media , and if the DIA had not lacked the will to protect him behind the scenes , the idea of coming forward would never have crossed his mind at all — indeed , he might never even have known that he had a contribution to make to the Lockerbie investigation . |
| 22 | Few facts are known about William Smith except that he was bound apprentice to Benjamin Slade in London in 1709 . |
| 23 | I was doing a radio series called Holiday Hour , he was producing Pick Of The Week . |
| 24 | ‘ He was breaking bottles over my head … like a maniac . ’ |
| 25 | Vologsky talked openly , not even realizing any more that he was breaking security by such talk . |
| 26 | On the one hand he was receiving advice from Cardinal Barberini ( later Pope Urban VIII ) that he should steer clear of theological issues ; on the other he was advised that Cardinal Bellarmine would welcome his comments on a passage in Psalm 18 that appeared inconsistent with Copernican doctrine . |
| 27 | When the subsequent television programme was broadcast , he lost a lot of business from his Protestant customers as they thought he was receiving funds from the IFI . |
| 28 | A sailor nearby — he was pushing people into the hold as if he was packing meat — called out to her . |
| 29 | Not two years later , he was dealing smack in Ballymun where he met Isabelle at an unlikely pub near a client 's flat . |
| 30 | But as the week wore on and Damian made no attempt to see her at night , spend time with her or try to kiss her , she realised he was seeing Domino in the dark , humid hours when Rachel sat alone at home , tortured by jealousy , consumed with it , imagining them together and burning with impotent rage . |