Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] be [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Izzie left them deep in animated conversation — the monk laughing out loud as he realized he was being lured into an acting profession — and went inside the house to find Gabriel . |
| 2 | It was also essential that he believed he was being cured , because of the need he would face soon for what I can only call ‘ self-help ’ . |
| 3 | On hearing the doorbell , the Commander 's reaction was affected by the events of the day and the matter they had just been so emotionally discussing : irrationally , he believed he was being visited by the police . |
| 4 | At one stage he believed he was being attacked and he over-reacted . |
| 5 | He guessed it was being fired from the hip . |
| 6 | He sensed he was being watched , one of the balconies above , but he did n't look up . |
| 7 | Jane smiled cheerfully , so that he thought she was being charitable , or even contemptuous , and he looked down at his hands . |
| 8 | He said that he thought he was being arrested in connection with the fight . |
| 9 | He was reaching the point where he might be tempted to hurt the boy out of frustration or because he thought he was being tricked in some way . |
| 10 | Then he thought he was being pampered , so he moved into a dirty hovel , ‘ where he lay on straw like a beast ’ . |
| 11 | It seems to have been about then that he mentioned for the first time that he thought he was being poisoned with acqua toffana ( a notorious Italian poison ) . |
| 12 | He thought he was being attacked so he defended himself . |
| 13 | He thought he was being funny . |
| 14 | ‘ Ah well , you may be able to escape soon , ’ said Owen , saying the thing he thought he was being invited to say . |
| 15 | The voice was calm and soft and the words were ordinary , but he knew he was being told a horror story . |
| 16 | He knew he was being watched from somewhere . |
| 17 | Shiva smiled sadly and asked why not but he knew he was being unfair to Adam as well as to himself . |
| 18 | He knew he was being manipulated but , he asked himself , what was the alternative ? |
| 19 | He knew he was being teased . |
| 20 | He went to answer it and the next thing he knew he was being attacked by a group of men . |
| 21 | The feeling persisted and suddenly , although he knew he was being ridiculous , he felt he had to take a ride into Mansfield to have a look at the site where the old Empire Theatre had once stood . |
| 22 | He felt he was being particularly generous offering marriage to someone he had not yet met . |
| 23 | He said he had to resign because he felt he was being made the ‘ fall guy ’ for breaches of the law he had no control over . |
| 24 | He felt he was being drawn out of his comfortless hole into something altogether more vast and impressive and alarming . |
| 25 | And when her soft red lips closed over the tip of his rapacious tool , he felt he was being lifted into paradise . |
| 26 | It was as if his vision had steadily darkened , until he could see nothing else ; no brightness , no sunlight , just a public hell into which he felt he was being dragged while others walked by it unseeing . |
| 27 | Mr Hunt said Diaz lost control when he felt he was being insulted and goaded by the other group of people . |
| 28 | Haled in to help salvage the church 's treasures , he had set to and done whatever was asked of him without curiosity , but there was nothing amiss with his sharp and assured memory , once he understood what was being asked of him . |
| 29 | ‘ He said we were being served with notice to leave on the Tuesday and had to be out by Thursday . |
| 30 | So he said I was being very stubborn and that I 'd be lucky to get my daughter back through drug addiction and one thing and another . |