Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the two , he was faring worse , panting , gasping , even appearing to be near collapse . |
| 2 | utterance was taken out of context , and that he was advocating greater involvement by the national parliaments ? |
| 3 | utterance was taken out of context , and that he was advocating greater involvement by the national parliaments ? |
| 4 | As he grew older his favourite view was that of the omnibuses which descended the rue du Bac and crossed the Pont Royal , for it gave him a chance to see the people with whom , for most of the time , he was denied closer contact . |
| 5 | I was using stiffer rods and he was using softer ones . |
| 6 | She stole a look at him ; he was looking grimmer by the minute — he would n't show any mercy once he caught up with the culprits . |
| 7 | He was moving lower , his lips cool and sensitive as he trailed kisses over the curves and hollows exposed for his exploration . |
| 8 | There were various suggestions as to Balliol 's intentions in this southwards move : that his aim was first to divide the west from the east , then to work round and isolate Edinburgh ; that he knew of Sir Archibald Douglas 's mustering of his Galloway vassals and sought to keep this force from joining the main Scots array ; that perhaps he was expecting further English reinforcements from Carlisle and the West March ; and so on . |
| 9 | He was getting nearer to himself , travelling on a long loop of bumpy path through the trees . |
| 10 | They told Jesus how he was getting richer and richer as they got poorer and poorer , and how he did n't have any pity even on people who really could n't afford to pay . |
| 11 | He was getting better . |
| 12 | Harry decided that the embarrassment this caused him was a sign he was getting better . |
| 13 | And I made sure I blabbed a bit to her , even contradicting in inessential details some of the earlier relations to the Colonel , so that he might think he was getting better quality intelligence this way . |
| 14 | He was getting louder . |
| 15 | He was getting angrier by the minute . |
| 16 | It was ironic that while most of the men I knew seemed inclined to some form of polygamy , Syl , now that he was getting older and had less energy , should have decided on a monogamous relationship with me . |
| 17 | Indeed , it did n't seem quite impossible even to me , as he seemed to have reached a kind of plateau — no better but certainly no worse , free of pain and very happy — often informing me that he was getting stronger every day . |
| 18 | He was driving faster than usual , and Juliet stole a sideways glance at him . |
| 19 | Navarre lost his castles and was lucky not to lose his life ; he was to attempt further intrigues with the English , but his double-dealing made the English wary of him . |
| 20 | He was aware of her , but he was envisaging greater battles still . |
| 21 | He did not need a stick at this time , for he was feeling better than usual , and his skin would have passed for normal except for some roughness here and there easily attributable to the chafing of clothes or to taking too many baths in hard water without the benefit of bottled body oils sold by any chemist worth the name . |
| 22 | Well wrapped-up against the cold , Gooch said he was feeling better ‘ but not 100 per cent ’ . |
| 23 | Earlier on the way to conference accompanied by his wife Anne he said he was feeling better . |
| 24 | He was feeling lighter and lighter with every second that passed . |
| 25 | He got a chronic pseudomonas infection low down in his lungs , and he was having longer and longer spells in hospital . |
| 26 | ‘ I thought he was designing better places for people to live . ’ |