Example sentences of "he [adv] [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What intrigued him most was how , in that case , they knew from which mast the piece of wood had come . |
| 2 | But what drove him on was less his outsize libido than his desire to prove a point and win public acclaim : ‘ Everyone thinks I 'm going to die . |
| 3 | The door which had opened hastily to let him through was just swinging heavily to when Harry roused himself out of his daze of doubt and consternation , and flung himself after in a burst of despairing rage . |
| 4 | She attempted to push him away , and then , as his wonderful mouth gentled over hers , she knew that to push him away was not what she wanted either . |
| 5 | Whatever had troubled him yesterday was still far from unresolved . |
| 6 | His cheek was warm and smooth and very desirable , and she gave in , unable to push him away when having him close was so much more delightful . |
| 7 | Trying to wind him up was n't proving very successful . |
| 8 | That way Eleanor would be kept at bay and , after all , the chance of anyone else looking him up was extremely remote . |
| 9 | As his hand was crushed down onto the red-hot ring again , Connelly 's body jerked convulsively and so savagely that the man holding him up was almost knocked off balance , but he stood his ground while his companion pressed down on the limb . |
| 10 | The heavy-metal band that picked him up were very friendly . |
| 11 | But a confrontation with him now was more than Lisa could handle . |
| 12 | To leave him angrily was even worse . |
| 13 | ‘ He obviously was n't going to carry on with the Seven ; he 'd had his fun with it . ’ |
| 14 | He linked the freedom of the foreign-owned press in Africa to the general principle of press freedom , but remarked that its effects had been far from encouraging : the press had done things that he personally was very unhappy about . |
| 15 | Richard was immediately content , as he only was when something could be ascertained to the nearest degree of accuracy . |
| 16 | He just was not able to bring in business the way DPR would have liked him to do . |
| 17 | He thought it was fabulous because I guess he just was n't used to living in all that space and the idea of living in this enormous rambling series of rooms appealed to him very much . |
| 18 | When she and Dot turned up to visit , he just was n't there any more . |
| 19 | He just was n't getting hold of it too good . |
| 20 | He just was n't ready . ’ |
| 21 | The cause of much of Thom 's misery , it transpires , was the feeling — familiar to many victims of Fatal Attraction Syndrome — that he just was n't good enough for the person concerned . |
| 22 | Reportedly AT&T was anxious to see the back of NCR Corp 's ex-CEO Gil Williamson because he just was n't user-friendly enough , not a motivator . |
| 23 | I had an actor once who was condemned to hang for stealing a sheep — or a lamb , I forget which — so I got permission to have him hanged in the middle of a play — had to change the plot a bit but I thought it would be effective , you know — and you would n't believe it , he just was n't convincing ! |
| 24 | She had the time right — he just was n't here . |
| 25 | I liked Nigel — I thought I was in love with him — but then I realised , when I did n't want what he wanted , he just was n't interested in me any more . ’ |
| 26 | Oh he just was n't interested in farming . |
| 27 | He fucking was n't erm ready , when that went up was he ? |
| 28 | With my own nose barely above water I held him with his head just higher than mine , but he still was n't breathing . |
| 29 | But he still was n't going to be intimidated . |
| 30 | and he still was n't dressed or shaved when we |