Example sentences of "he was [verb] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matey thought unkindly that Mrs Darrell rather liked the idea of becoming Lady Cochrane when Stair went to his last rest , which at the rate he was living might not be long . |
| 2 | The war was just what he needed , and the kind of secret department he was given could have been designed for him . |
| 3 | On each occasion , it had meant that the operation on which he was engaged would soon be taken out of his hands . |
| 4 | George felt no call to admit that the tackle he was using could in no wise cope with a pike . |
| 5 | The question remains whether the caution which was undoubtedly administered to him when he was charged can similarly be overridden by the subsequent section 2(2) notice . |
| 6 | Perhaps they were wrong ; perhaps the spoke of the wheel on which he was clinging would never be swung over so hard by Lady Fortune that he would be prised loose and fall , limbs sprawling , like the figures on the rose window of the cathedral , while others — Tommaso , where was Tommaso now ? — rose up to be garlanded at chance 's whim . |
| 7 | So far as mens rea is concerned , the issue is not whether the defendant himself considered that the words or conduct in question was insulting , but whether he realised that the persons whom he was addressing might do so . |
| 8 | What he was planning would tie half the hospital up for the entire morning ! |
| 9 | What he was envisaging may even be compared with a modern community centre with craft centres and other amenities . |
| 10 | Round that erm I think he was found may I need to ask ? |
| 11 | I think it was fair to say I had his attention , though the fountain pen he was strangling would never be the same again . |
| 12 | What he was saying could as easily have been a lecture delivered to a silent class : the starchy language , the self-satisfied delivery . |
| 13 | He said the reforms he was proposing would be ‘ revenue neutral ’ . |