Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a voice full of virginal astonishment he said , ‘ 'E were touchin' me fookin' cock . ’ |
| 2 | Halfway up the aisle the Ted turned his head again to the packed house and in the same pained voice of injured innocence repeated , ‘ 'E were touchin' me fookin' cock . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ As far as I know 'e was 'avin' it orf wiv one o' the young gels where 'e worked . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , for all that he 'd been around there was definitely something that was attractive and appealing about him ; only his eyes gave him away , because they could turn cold and introspective while those around him were whooping it up . |
| 5 | The only way to stop him was to open it . |
| 6 | So one of the first things I did with Clive after hypnotizing him was to ask him simple questions — ‘ What is your full name ? ’ , |
| 7 | He thought this was because he was bad and the evil in him was telling him to forget about them , but he would win , he would not forget . |
| 8 | PHILIP SAYER , TO KNOW HIM WAS TO LOVE HIM . |
| 9 | The immediate effect she had on him was to make him strong , sure , steadied on himself as never before . |
| 10 | And if he stays behind that door ’ — the mounting gale of voices behind him was lifting him as he spoke , he wanted to jump on the factor , grab his hair and swing him against the door like a battering ram — ‘ we will fire the roof ! and smoke him out ! ’ |
| 11 | Aye , she were washing them or summat and he were annoying her so she threw them all . |
| 12 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 13 | as if he were touching her , the tips of her nipples contracted into tight buds of awareness , pointing tell-tale peaks beneath the thin fabric . |
| 14 | It was as if he were touching her , physically caressing her with that dark , gold-flecked gaze . |
| 15 | He lifted Patrick 's hands and arms and let them fall , he shook his shoulders and moved his head to and fro , then he began to stroke his face , carefully as if he were moulding it . |
| 16 | But if Fen were in love with her — if he were to make love to her again , the way he had last night … if he were to ask her … |
| 17 | But how would these be preserved if he were writing them now , and what would the historian of the future make of the sanitised , word-processed , spell-checked notes that might be left behind with every trace of the intellectual evolution of his argument having been edited and re-edited from the text ? |
| 18 | She was staring at herself in the mirror in the curtained dressing-room , wondering what a certain gentleman might do and say if he were to see her in it , when she became aware of hushed voices in the salon outside . |
| 19 | The name was spoken with a malevolent hiss , as though he were spitting it from his blood-smeared mouth , so hateful was its foul taste to him . |
| 20 | He was matter-of-fact about it , as if he were telling me what time it was . |
| 21 | Your Bill nearly hit it other week he were telling me . |
| 22 | There used to be a cafe , a cute ; the er you used to go in and have a cup of tea and that and yo , he started selling jam , pots of jam with they had him in court , it was er it had fell off a lorry and he was selling it a bit cheap and er he were telling us about it . |
| 23 | She went up with little lad and he were watching it and he says I would n't mind this , well Arthur says I 'd al he 'd already taped it off telly and so he says I 'll tell you what you can have it if you give me a blank |
| 24 | I 've moved that , I moved that so he did n't knock it over cos he were knocking it with his tail . |
| 25 | He was shaking me calling me a slut and a whore and saying they were n't his kids everything , I do n't know , I could n't breathe — he were choking me — ’ |
| 26 | ‘ He were choking me . |
| 27 | When he did rise in the chair it was slowly and grudgingly and he followed McQuaid out into the stone hallway as if he were finding it difficult to walk or move . |
| 28 | Such a touching story , Miss Sally-Anne Tunstall — ’ and he spoke her name as though he were striking her with it ‘ — and all a lie . |
| 29 | Suppose he were to think it Auguste 's own choice ? |
| 30 | That same day he told me , as if he were giving me a magnificent present , that he thought he could pull strings and have me posted with him . |