Example sentences of "he was [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a young er man er who was just er a young boy , he was promoting records and trying to get into the business and , and er he remembered me well , and when they found out that I was n't easy to , to reach , no-one knew where I was , he was able to track me down and when he told me that er I had this big hit record , I thought it was someone playing a joke on me , because here in America , they have a television show called The Blue Bird , where they play jokes on people and , and tell them things , and then they videotape you and then there 's a funny reaction that this is a big television show . |
| 2 | He started to realize that he was experiencing sensations from parts of his body which he had thought had ceased to function . |
| 3 | He was to visit units of all the three divisions in the Corps area , each of which was to be concerned with the repatriations . |
| 4 | It had ‘ failed to make my flesh creep ’ , he reports guardedly , in a phrase he was to repeat years later about it in his life of Ronald Knox ( 1959 ) , and failed because it had denied the existence of the soul and omitted all mention of the Church . |
| 5 | He was eating sweetmeats from a silver dish and , whilst Benjamin and I knelt before him , he kept popping them into his mouth , watching us impassively . |
| 6 | He was shouting obscenities at her . ’ |
| 7 | He handles it with the familiarity of a mother with her baby , yet he has a look in his eyes as if he was removing specks of vomit . |
| 8 | He could n't pretend he was delivering articles anywhere . |
| 9 | He was raining kicks into all the softer bits of the body chosen by the being who was to bring death to our world . |
| 10 | Also in February he was discussing ideas for a Botticelli ballet and for a Debussy ballet ; these eventually coalesced into one idea , Primavera . |
| 11 | Was it just that he was obeying orders from above ? |
| 12 | Especially now that he was watching men die around him . |
| 13 | He said Oliver was extremely embarrassed , as well he might have been , because he was buying flowers to make his peace with a girl he 'd gone to bed with the night before and been impotent with . |
| 14 | Wearing a duffel coat over yesterday 's military outfit , he was feeding hazelnuts to a squirrel . |
| 15 | Soon he was exploring parts he felt no-one had ever been in before . |
| 16 | ‘ He was breaking bottles over my head … like a maniac . ’ |
| 17 | When the subsequent television programme was broadcast , he lost a lot of business from his Protestant customers as they thought he was receiving funds from the IFI . |
| 18 | Thinking so hard about it , he thought for a moment he was hearing guns . |
| 19 | And he was bringing orders right , left and centre off of his clients . |
| 20 | He was asked questions , and every time demonstrated his lack of knowledge . |
| 21 | TV aerials : one of the drama groups did a sketch about James Logie Baird who invented the television , and the man who lodged in the room next door to him kept on seeing pictures flashing on his wall and they dragged him off to the lunatic asylum 'cos they thought he was seeing things , hallucinating . |
| 22 | He was seeing things . |
| 23 | Well , yes , I mean I can remember having a friend in Oxford who was schizophrenic and to be quite frank he needed to be certified and we could not get him to go to the doctors , and when he did he told sufficient stories that the doctor home with eye drops because he was seeing things . |
| 24 | Boy watched all of this as if he was seeing fragments of one , continuous and baffling programme . |
| 25 | He did n't want to push her away , but he was getting close to his limit ; his blood was starting to pound in his ears and he was seeing haloes around all of the lights outside . |
| 26 | He was seeing men with one shoe in his sleep these days . |
| 27 | Certainly the Pentagon knows it 's already under investigation , but Hawkins did n't want anyone to know that he was pointing fingers in certain directions . |
| 28 | It was for his dogs , such fervour in each , as he was bestowing blessings . |
| 29 | ‘ For an actor of his calibre , ’ recalls Gerald Thomas , ‘ and he was of a very high calibre indeed , he had the inability to play dialogue at the same time as he was handling props . |
| 30 | Between these two journeys , in 147–6 , he was given ships by Scipio to explore the coasts of Africa ( Plin . |