Example sentences of "he [was/were] [v-ing] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Immediately after the war , when Bullett first approached Freud er , with the idea of writing the book , Freud was apparently feeling very depressed , and er , he was savagely critical of his own work , and er , because he had little access to patients during the war , he generally felt quite down and also by presenting written for him , all he would need to wr all he would need to write , and according to er , other people , perhaps he was eating , he was receiving just sort of waiting to die . |
| 2 | A waiter came to deal with the mess , and while he was kneeling there Sheridan said loudly that the waiter was sneering at him and he would get him fired . ’ |
| 3 | The unemployed Turkish waiter stood in the doorway and peered at him ; he was muscular and squat , and he was wearing only pyjama trousers that were creased and stained . |
| 4 | As he was wearing only trousers and shoes he knew that he would soon be picked up in the town , so he got away through alleys and into the country . |
| 5 | Benny was whistling noisily and he seemed happy in what he was doing so William left him alone . |
| 6 | He was staring at her as though he was piecing together bits of her personality like a mathematician working on some equation . |