Example sentences of "and he [was/were] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Says Reagan : ‘ The speaker that followed me spoke in Spanish and he was being applauded about every paragraph . |
| 2 | But I did n't feel strong , I was confused and he was being pleasant and solicitous . |
| 3 | That Fräulein Hubert was taking him around , introducing him to the group , and he was being — oh , well — you know , like Gesner , laughing , shaking hands , holding the women 's hands too long , you know the kind of thing . ’ |
| 4 | So having got back to Egypt ( and he was being harried from one end of the Western Desert to the other by Rommel ) Boyce found himself in a caravan which was his headquarters and also where he lived when he received an order to hare back as fast as possible to El Alamein . |
| 5 | At one point there were five people attacking him and he was being punched and kicked . |
| 6 | And he was being silly . |
| 7 | There was a bloke there and he was being rude |
| 8 | And he was being nice , but sort of , jokingly nice and I goes oh yeah , you know ? |
| 9 | And he was being really nasty ! |
| 10 | yeah but he do n't get done , he does n't get done , that is the problem , the kids do n't , I 've written a letter to Mr yesterday , why they were waiting for the games teacher he was hitting Geoffrey and he gave him a dead leg , kneeing him in the leg , he said before drama , he 's got drama tomorrow he says he hates drama because the teacher takes no notice , he said one week Stuart was hitting me with a stick and the teacher just said calm down you boys , and he was being hit with a stick oh no and this I find totally disgusting and I feel like complaining about this , one of the teachers and I do n't know whether its drama yeah I think it was drama and |
| 11 | This man , he was a criminal , he was one of the worst , he had broken the laws of the land and he was being crucified for that reason but the measure of his sin , the gravity of his sin , did not alter his chance of sa being saved . |
| 12 | I mean he did n't say anything in particular , just the fact that , you know , we were just like walking along and just chatting away you know and he was being really nice and , you know , it was just fine . |