Example sentences of "he was [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He was scanning the smoky room , fidgeting a little nervously . |
| 4 | His voice seemed loaded with meaning but when Marcus looked at him he was scanning the board . |
| 5 | We were appearing together at a literary lunch in Cleethorpes — he was promoting the latest edition of his diaries — and someone was playing the organ whilst we were eating . |
| 6 | Already , at the age of nineteen , he was experiencing the morbidity which occasionally harassed him and which he described sixteen years later in a chapter on the ‘ character ’ of Keats : |
| 7 | He was experiencing the limited pleasures and drawbacks of early manhood . |
| 8 | Dickon told his mother about it one evening as he was digging the cottage garden . |
| 9 | On leaving Oxford , he was secured the position of honorary attaché at the embassy in Tokyo in 1902 , but never allowed himself to become much interested in Far Eastern affairs . |
| 10 | Whenever he stood at the turn of the great stairs , with the entrance-hall and main door at his back , he knew he was facing the very worst the house could offer . |
| 11 | He was facing the man in the lit room with only thin wood and a lot of glass between them and the man was still moving , the blue-black automatic squat and ugly in his fist . |
| 12 | Duvall was jerked away from Jimmy , spinning on his heels so that he was facing the office door again . |
| 13 | Then he was facing the Bridge . |
| 14 | He was facing the window and seemed to be in a state of dreamy somnolence . |
| 15 | He was facing the rajathuks . |
| 16 | Lamarr Dean stood with his side against the bar so that he was facing the first Apache . |
| 17 | The ‘ whistlation ’ lasted four days , as the pioneer had to repeat himself 808 million times , until someone realised he was whistling the words , ‘ this is just going to be a short whistle because I have very sore throat . ’ |
| 18 | He was peeling the bark off a stick . |
| 19 | He was tormenting the thin man . |
| 20 | One morning in October he was wiping the counter down when he heard a motorbike approaching . |
| 21 | He was a little surprised when she said no and even more so when she told him that he was wasting the doctor 's time — there were sick people waiting for these beds . |
| 22 | Years later he was to repeat the closeness of a working relationship with his chief under Alan Lennox-Boyd ( later first Viscount Boyd of Merton , q.v. ) at the Colonial Office . |
| 23 | He was eating the last of the pie with gusto . |
| 24 | And then , when he was eating the |
| 25 | He was piling the flower pots up . |
| 26 | Because he had he used to have a big open fire there and all the kids would be sitting round it keeping warm while he was mending the shoes . |
| 27 | The CO 's office where he was learning the job of Assistant Adjutant happened to be on the first floor of an empty house in Cadogan Gardens . |
| 28 | Soon he was learning the flute . |
| 29 | He was learning the whole time , today one thing , tomorrow another , this year well , next year better . " |
| 30 | They put their cases in the boot and within ten minutes he was leaving the outskirts of Brussels , heading east for Liège — the opposite direction to Bruges . |