Example sentences of "he was [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I did n't actually but he was arsed I just said oh thanks very much ! |
| 2 | In August he was again complaining of tiredness ; there was no doubt that like most other Englishmen he was experiencing what he described in another context as a general weariness of war and desire for peace . |
| 3 | He was experiencing something utterly new for him : his first controlled passage into a geistzone under the guidance of an oolerinnen ; his first safe transit of the threshold for so long guarded by the bone , wood and bird-wing magic of the shaman . |
| 4 | Now as he was digging he was finding things . |
| 5 | Movies in the new albums , appropriately enough , are present only as jokes , in ‘ 57 Channels ( And Nothin' On ) ’ or ‘ Real Man ’ : ‘ Sound came up lights went down/Rambo he was blowin' 'em down . ’ |
| 6 | When he was shot he was not wearing his jacket or tie so presumably he felt at home , wherever it was . ’ |
| 7 | Tufnell was still there to wheel away , but after his earlier successes , he was enduring something of a lean spell . |
| 8 | You can tell how close I was and he was facing me . ’ |
| 9 | He was facing her now . |
| 10 | Then he swung round so that he was facing her . |
| 11 | He was facing her , and the half-shadows lent his body a forbidding , dangerous air that seemed to engulf her . |
| 12 | Now he was facing her squarely . |
| 13 | Painfully Travis rolled over until he was facing her . |
| 14 | When his caddie had fished the ball out and he had dropped it behind the stream he was facing his fifth shot . |
| 15 | By the time he was demobbed he was the nearest thing to a genius when handling the military gadgetry of radio signals and wireless telephony that the army produced . |
| 16 | He was either out and had n't switched on the answering machine or he was tormenting her by ignoring the telephone . |
| 17 | Did you see how nice the man was when he started to talk to Jason oh I 'll go and help you how friendly he was he was conning him , he was tricking . |
| 18 | I thought he was conning me when he told me his plan . |
| 19 | His voice was educated although he was wiping his nose on his sleeve . |
| 20 | He was wiping his hands on his shirt . |
| 21 | He said he was comforting her . |
| 22 | He had auditioned on his own stubborn initiative , although people had warned him that because of his colour he was wasting his time . |
| 23 | We thought he was wasting his time after all the hard work and studying he had done , ’ says Brian Gedge . |
| 24 | Edouard knew he was wasting his time , but he could n't stop . |
| 25 | Instead , by the age of 15 , he was wasting his money endlessly playing computer games , until one day he discovered the Yellow Magic Orchestra , and then Kraftwerk , and then Asian music and various ethnic musics ( ‘ Sounded like techno to me , ’ he mutters ) . |
| 26 | Just because he went to Hollywood and was paid a lot of money does n't mean he was wasting his talent . |
| 27 | Lily said he was wasting his money , and he was ; they were all papists down at the Bridewell . |
| 28 | John knew when he was being lied to but knew also when he was wasting his time . |
| 29 | I knew he was wasting his time . |
| 30 | Before the end of the day , he had had a short sharp interview with Chief Inspector Chips Salter , who produced the names of the two families he suspected of killing the Pitts , with his reasons for this suspicion , while at the same time letting John Coffin know he thought he was wasting his time looking elsewhere . |