Example sentences of "he [was/were] [v-ing] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | he were running by the shed to eat it ! |
| 2 | Did you hear about Gustave 's glove bill in the days when he was prancing by candlelight ? |
| 3 | Er I I think my honourable friend , if I followed him er is confusing two things , er because erm er what we , he was beginning by talking about er are what we will come to in the regulations er which is the right of citizens of other er member countries to vote in the country of which they 're not a citizen to vote . |
| 4 | He came out after two weeks and — despite a slight chill on the liver — he was recovering by the end of February . |
| 5 | Once I left his nappy off , just to see what would happen , and he was soaking by 9.30pm . |
| 6 | The author of the book of Judges shows when he was writing by remarking several times , " In those days there was no king in Israel ; every man did what was right in his own eyes . " |
| 7 | HE was acting by royal command , lending a professional ear to the Duchess of York 's marriage troubles . |
| 8 | He was kneeling by a pool , looking up at the towering trees that surrounded him — quiet , intent , somehow unsurprised . |
| 9 | Then she came over to where he was kneeling by the fire and put her arms round him from behind and pressed her cheek against his . |
| 10 | He was kneeling by the body , examining its wounds . |
| 11 | He was kneeling by the side of the bed , his arms about her waist , his head on a level with hers . |
| 12 | She says that he was hanging by his dressing gown cord from a banister . |
| 13 | But the Protestant Elizabeth , the queen whom he thought he was flattering by likening her to Deborah ( the prophetess who , with the help of the Lord , saved Israel from the Canaanites ) , was never to forgive him , and this ensured that his role in the years of success for the Scottish Protestants after 1560 was less than it might otherwise have been . |
| 14 | The king , however , did not pay for them , not least because he was saving by this means the need to provide the beneficiary with a pension from the exchequer . |
| 15 | Henry concentrated on Donald 's face and , as so often these days , found it easier to look as if he was listening by doing the reverse . |
| 16 | He was holding by its middle a cane with a meerschaum handle , and he looked gravely distressed , as well as naturally grave . |
| 17 | Enescu 's Romanian Rhapsodies hung like albatrosses around his alter career , their popularity overshadowing the far more original music he was composing by then ; and to add injury to insult , he had signed away the royalties . |
| 18 | He was sitting by the window , wrapped in his great plaid , his head twisted to one side to ease the wound in his neck . |
| 19 | ‘ He was sitting by the water of Biscayne Bay just a short distance from the set . |
| 20 | He was sitting by the window and turning some pages of music . |
| 21 | From where he was sitting by the narrow little window he had a view of the meagre garden and beyond it , in the distance , a huge white bull in a field of white heifers . |
| 22 | Dougal tried to distract himself from what he was doing by treating the wounds as a mental puzzle . |
| 23 | He was a private ; he was waiting by a big car , probably for his officer to come out of his mistress 's apartment . |
| 24 | So he got the barn and he he had it in a peedie pail you see and he was on his road home and he was coming by this that hillock at Yensetter there . |
| 25 | there was this witch doctor and Scooby Doo was — he was standing by the witch doctor and the witch doctor went in and he went — he went chasing him Scooby Doo went in the cupboard with Shaggy and got some clothes on and they were acting on and then the witch doctor pressed the button and they turned on again then and then Scooby was acting and then they just take him and he keeped on switching it until they all came round and the all clothes fell off him . |
| 26 | She went over to where he was standing by the fire and thanked him . |
| 27 | He was standing by the window tilting a folded newspaper to the light , which left his other hand free to knead his hip with an unconscious sensuality so familiar . |
| 28 | He was standing by the bushes near to where the gates had once been , and he took her in his arms and kissed her passionately . |
| 29 | He was standing by the balcony . |
| 30 | He was standing by his desk , his arms circling the waist of an extraordinarily beautiful dark-haired girl , who was looking back at Lisa in surprise across his shoulder . |