Example sentences of "who [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett was tired , depressed : the passing sights caught his eye : a dog , one leg shorter than the rest , sniffing at the bloated body of a rat : a cat running by , his mouth stuffed with baby mice , a beggar , white-eyed and sore-ridden , shrieking at young boys who were pissing over him . |
| 2 | It could be said that some sort of crisis was going to force itself up in the life of a strongly emotional young man who was so strictly engaged in compartmentalizing his life : a father who was never meant to know about Janie Moore ; Minto herself cut off from college ; almost all his friends kept in darkness about his emotional history , and most of them at this period unaware of his religious interests ; pupils who were discussing with him the things he cared about most — books — but in a fashion which prevented his strength of feeling breaking through . |
| 3 | Travelling on a false passport made out in the name of James Richardson , Bourke travelled by train from London to Paris ( apparently without encountering any problems with the police who were searching for him ) , and thence by air to Berlin where he crossed into the eastern sector and shortly afterwards was flown to Moscow to be reunited with Blake . |
| 4 | The palace was surrounded by a crowd who were shouting for him to speak . |
| 5 | But in Britain , even in the days of the local poor law , questions were only asked about relatives of the claimant who were living with him . |
| 6 | He says if people had listen to the voices who were calling for him to be locked up then he would n't have had this chance to show an improvement . |
| 7 | Having delivered Eliot to those who were looking after him for the night , we walked back to our colleges discussing the evening , with the ardour of youth which included that most interesting of contests , the comparison of recollections . |
| 8 | All night he had laboured in prayer and watching , then rising and sitting in his chair , as it were made new for the occasion , which had been placed before the chimney in his parlour , and in the midst of his chaplains , servants and officers who were praying for him , he expired as if sleeping , and without a groan yielded up his spirit most purely to his Creator . " |
| 9 | Then looking back at Mick who was grinning at him , he bit on his lip and moved his head slightly as if to say , ‘ How am I to take her ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Clumsy sod , ’ he said when he got up shaking his fist at Gordon with the big feet who was marching behind him . |
| 11 | And he said he was unable to resist orders from a drowned boyhood friend called Delroy , who was speaking to him from ‘ beyond the grave ’ . |
| 12 | Neil Cochrane knew immediately who it was who was speaking to him . |
| 13 | Miraculously , when invited for the Hunt Ball , he had asked if he might bring an old school friend who was staying with him , hiring horses for a few days ' hunting . |
| 14 | His eyes had a wildness about them , as though he might attack the boy , who was looking at him with his mouth open . |
| 15 | The cous cousins Margaret and Joan have been found and I told you we found Tony while we were still on with Malcolm who was looking for him . |
| 16 | ‘ It might be a number of things , ’ said Caspar , who was looking about him . |
| 17 | I watched him walk towards Daffodil , who was waving to him vigorously , and take the place saved by her handbag . |
| 18 | It was Fiver who was clambering over him , clawing and grabbing like a rabbit trying to climb a wire fence in a panic . |
| 19 | They must have been filled in at the bank either by Mr Hatton himself or else by the cashier who was attending to him . ’ |
| 20 | The old lady now moved her shoulder to let George Banks , the butler , take her plate away and hand it to Patrick McCann , who was standing behind him , then to place before her a plate he had taken from the sideboard ; and she , after looking down on it , turned her head up towards him and said , ‘ Iced pudding , Banks ? |
| 21 | His grip lingered on the translator 's hand and he smiled faintly at her before turning back to the Chief of Protocol who was standing behind him . |
| 22 | Li Shai Tung half turned , looking to see who was standing behind him , but there was no one . |
| 23 | Two years ago he was involved in a dreadful crash on the western Ring Road in which his wife , who was sitting beside him in the passenger seat , received such serious injuries to the lower half of the body that for the rest of her life — a life which ended tragically last week — she was confined to a wheel-chair . |
| 24 | He looked towards Peg , who was staring at him with undisguised loathing . |
| 25 | The young man 's eyes kept involuntarily catching those of the Substitute , who was staring at him pleasantly . |
| 26 | He grinned at Maltote , who was staring at him open-mouthed . |
| 27 | Zen glanced at Ellen , who was staring at him in horrified disbelief . |
| 28 | It was so dark that he could not see who was bending over him . |
| 29 | Ace demanded , freeing himself from the constraints of his seatbelt as the jet , now airborne , levelled off , and smiling at the stewardess who was bending over him with familiarity , offering what was obviously his normal choice of drink . |
| 30 | But he was confronted by an ecstatic welcome from his mother , who was waiting for him on the doorstep . |