Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ 'E was phonin' the police , that 's what 'e was doin' . |
2 | A police officer with a sheaf of papers before him was using the desk telephone presumably still checking alibis . |
3 | After the disruption of the Cabal , he was honoured by the Royal Society with a fellowship ( 1673 ) and by admission to Gray 's Inn ( 1674 ) ; to him was ascribed the chief credit for the failure to carry the impeachment of Thomas Osborne , first Earl of Danby [ q.v. ] , whose policies at the head of the new administration in 1674 , both at home and abroad , harmonized with his own . |
4 | ‘ … In him was united the genius of the manufacturer and the habits of a scientific investigator ’ . |
5 | Holly heard only occasional talk about the burned office because the job of the men around him was to get the food inside their guts , get the warmth into their throats . |
6 | Bellerophon ‘ slew the Amazons , women peers of men ’ and Heracles , the most popular of Greek heroes , found that the Ninth Labour assigned to him was to seize the girdle of the Amazon queen . |
7 | Suppose he were to encounter the Ryemarks or even Robin Tatian ? |
8 | Tenderly he touched her , kissed her lips , not with passion now , but with a delicate reverence , as if he were kissing the fragile bloom of a rare flower . |
9 | ‘ Ye-es , ’ said Linley as though he were considering the predicament with sympathy . |
10 | He would need to ring for a cab if he were to regain the Party conference in comfort . |
11 | Dad started off in statesman-like fashion , as if he were addressing the United Nations , earnestly saying he 'd come to love Eva over the time he 'd known her and so on . |
12 | He felt he knew very little about her present feelings , which were so malign toward him and unmapped that it was as if he were seeing the back side of the moon . |
13 | How on earth would it affect his negotiating position if he were to give the net farm income figures on the impact of his own proposals set out in ’ Our Farming Future ’ ? |
14 | Olechowski needed the support of the IMF if he were to renegotiate the terms of Poland 's US$1,600 million three-year extended facility which had been approved in April 1991 [ see p. 38162 ] but suspended in October after the previous government failed to meet IMF performance criteria on the budget deficit and expansion of domestic credit . |
15 | as if he were telling the story to someone else , Culley gave him a full account of what he 'd heard on the tape . |
16 | When they 'd moved in he 'd made a point of telling just about everybody where it was and how much it was costing — wincing a little at the same time , as if he were telling the story against himself and his own folly — but it had become a sterile kind of heaven , and he sat around in it like some forgotten angel . |
17 | While the view which I earlier called crude materialism is not compatible with Althusser 's general position , it would be remarkable if he were to relegate the economic aspects of society to exactly the same status as everything else . |
18 | Fagg emitted an interesting glugging sound , rather as if he were repeating the name of the insulted Vietnamese over and over again . |
19 | He always rides as if he were winning the St Leger . |
20 | If he were to tell the truth it would provoke Newton into the next carriage across the Sands . |
21 | As White and John Parrott , who currently occupies third spot , both failed to survive the qualifying rounds in Blackpool last September , Hendry will open up a sizeable lead in the standings if he were to capture the European title for the first time . |
22 | Actually , if he were offered the choice of going wherever he liked in the world , he would probably choose Wimbledon . |
23 | That is , he will not make the same judgements as he would make if he were viewing the scene itself . |
24 | If he were to discover the nature and the limits of this person he was — and , as time went by , stave off the timor mortis — fear of death — then he would go for the nerve and the bone , draw blood . |
25 | ‘ Perhaps three , ’ he said mildly at last , as if he were answering the simplest and most natural of questions . |
26 | I know that he would not like to do any injustice to the report , but if he were to read the second paragraph , which contains its judgment on the Bill , he might come to a different conclusion . |
27 | The house had been built on the Heath by an enterprising man who was said to have kept a tethered goat there , then to have put a wall round the goat and then to have built the house before anyone noticed he was purloining the land . |
28 | But Preston found he was scanning the crowd at about the right height for an eight-year-old child , and it was only after a while that he realised he was looking for Uncle Titch . |
29 | He was scanning the smoky room , fidgeting a little nervously . |
30 | His voice seemed loaded with meaning but when Marcus looked at him he was scanning the board . |