Example sentences of "he was [v-ing] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To Clasper 's disgust , the majority had voted against his recommended call for strike action and he now sensed all too painfully that he was beginning to lose control of his members . |
| 2 | One was suffering from deep depression , the other believed he was beginning to lose control of his mind . |
| 3 | He was beginning to get cramp in his right leg . |
| 4 | In his own words he was seeking to get immigration control on a basis where it was firm but where it was administered with some degree of compassion for the individual case ’ . |
| 5 | The conclusion is the same : provided the doctor can argue that he was seeking to prevent pain and suffering , the other criteria proposed by Skegg allow for a sufficient degree of subjective assessment as to offer no real barrier to the exercise of the doctor 's paternalism . |
| 6 | Asked about tax cuts when he was seeking to become leader , he replied tartly : ‘ I do n't spend money I have n't got . ’ |
| 7 | He was seeking to trade information , and he was going to be disappointed . |
| 8 | ‘ Makes sense , ’ said the Squat , ‘ if he was hoping to use Stalinvast as a playground for his bally hydra . ’ |
| 9 | Fleury , unaware of the Collector 's plans for a graduated retreat because he was not supposed to be in the Residency anyway , had dashed upstairs carrying the fifteen-barrelled pistol with which he was hoping to do battle from the upper storeys . |
| 10 | Bateson announced that next month 's extraordinary general meeting of the League , where he was hoping to persuade club chairmen to ‘ drop the drop ’ , is to be called off . |
| 11 | This was where Jesus was going , because he knew that to take to take something over and let's face it Jesus was looking to take over take something over to fulfil something and he was hoping to fulfil Judaism to take it over , to fulfil it , he had to go to where it mattered . |
| 12 | As the fish formed a halo around Simon 's head after his death we see that he is being sanctified by nature as he was trying to save nature from mankind . |
| 13 | Running well in the race , just behind Regazzoni , first Hunt 's engine faded for three seconds , stranding him behind Depailler , and then two laps later , when he was trying to overtake Depailler on the outside , Depailler moved over and blew Hunt into the wall . |
| 14 | Well , Bill 's er got that patch he was trying to stop smoking and he was n't sleeping at night , you know . |
| 15 | Before they parted it seemed to Sophia that he was trying to draw Ianthe aside , as if to make an assignation with her , but she gave him so little encouragement , indeed seemed almost to avoid him , that he had to be content with looking forward to the doubtful pleasure of meeting the whole party the next evening after dinner at the Trevi fountain . |
| 16 | Freud 's mistake was to think he was trying to bring order into the information gathered and arranged by biologists , instead of trying to bring order into the information gathered by psychoanalysts . |
| 17 | Maybe that was why he was trying to poison Elinor ? |
| 18 | For a moment he could not quite think why he was trying to poison Elinor . |
| 19 | There was a glitter in his eyes , and Rostov realised that he was trying to manoeuvre Burun into a situation where he would be either hurt or embarrassed . |
| 20 | He was trying to get custody of their only child . |
| 21 | He was trying to measure star distances by the method which is known as parallax . |
| 22 | Education Secretary John Patten replied that he was planning to announce counter-intimidation measures to be part of the Bill . |
| 23 | The Prime Minister also confirmed that he was planning to introduce legislation to abolish the provincial government structure on the grounds that it encouraged patronage and corruption . |
| 24 | Angel did not mind , because he was planning to introduce Tess to them as a d'Urberville as well as a dairymaid , some months later . |
| 25 | In addition to this and other commissions , Mozart also took some pupils , including the daughter of the Count of Guines , to whom he was attempting to teach composition . |
| 26 | Another of his treasures , the seventh volume of Gaud Maybellome 's Encyclopaedia of Heavenly Signs , originally written in the language of Third Dominion academics but widely translated for the delectation of the proletariat , he 'd bought from a woman in the city of Jassick , who 'd approached him in a gaming room where he was attempting to explain cricket to a group of the locals , and said she recognized him from stories her husband ( who was in the Autarch 's army in Yzordderrex ) had told . |
| 27 | But he was starting to lose track of the things that had made him what he was as well . |
| 28 | She went out into the garden , and when she returned he was preparing to cook toast and bacon . |
| 29 | The unfairness of what he was saying took Folly 's breath away . |
| 30 | What he was saying made sense in some respects but she would never , ever forgive Lizzy for the charade of the last eighteen months . |