Example sentences of "be [v-ing] in [noun] [conj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been serving in France when he met her , they had married as soon as the Hun had been finished off , and after the honeymoon it had been back to the colours for him and straight over to Ireland . |
| 2 | Earlier he had heard that a young clerk from the Post Office had shot himself while lying in bed … he had left a young widow , to whom he had been married in Calcutta during the previous cold season ; this act of despair had moved him more than any other of the many deaths he had witnessed since the beginning of the siege ; it was perhaps the fact that the young man had been lying in bed when he had shot himself that the Collector found so sad . |
| 3 | Do you know what Gary yesterday at about nine o'clock he fancied a pizza , he said that he fancied a pizza , er Aaron come on in , pizza and erm garlic bread to go with it , well I thought I 'm going in town so he 's got that for tonight now |
| 4 | It was while Murdock was living in Cornwall that he did his experiments with the model locomotive and his work on gas lighting . |
| 5 | It was also while Murdock was living in Redruth that he started his experiments with coal gas . |
| 6 | The Ayatollah was teaching in Qom when he was arrested in 1963 after condemning a raid on the college by the Shah 's security forces . |
| 7 | Henry III died in November 1272 , when Edward was campaigning in Sicily but he returned and , at the age of 33 , became King Edward I , and although it was his wish to finally liberate Jerusalem from the Moslem Saracens , he became involved in England , Wales and Scotland . |
| 8 | The storm was increasing in fury as he turned left towards the car park , beyond any houses , then made his way to the east on to the scrubby dunes . |
| 9 | And the context in which this was er argued er was er the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba , a C I A American supported invasion , er which er failed very badly but which certainly indicated the American desire to get rid of Castro and er Khrushchev was asserting in effect that he had as much right to defend an ally as the United States had er to defend erm its allies and in the same sort of way . |
| 10 | And the context in which this was er argued er was er the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba , a C I A American supported invasion , er which er failed very badly but which certainly indicated the American desire to get rid of Castro and er Khrushchev was asserting in effect that he had as much right to defend an ally as the United States had er to defend erm its allies and in the same sort of way . |