Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [conj] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was expecting a visit from the young woman he had been wooing assiduously and he had carefully orchestrated the evening so that all his housemates were out and he had the house to himself . |
| 2 | ‘ We are pretty certain Watson just mugged because they were there and he saw the chance of easy pickings without much danger of violence being offered back to him , ’ said a policeman . |
| 3 | but anyhow it , well they , they were there and he bought the pub did n't he and they were moving on the Saturday and he came on the Saturday morning and he cried take the furniture to pieces , some of the furniture , the wardrobes and there was a dining room table that they could n't get into the pub , could I dismantle them and re-assemble them again and that was the first time I 'd ever met him were n't I ? |
| 4 | Now , I did eventually get my father to tell me this ; and , according to him , it was just as he choked the last struggling life out of the dog that he heard another scream , this time from above , and inside the house , and that was the boy they called Paul being born . |
| 5 | Buildings , also , seldom appear in his paintings but this was not because he lacked the ability as his etchings show . |
| 6 | He acquired it partly by accident , for war was near when he ascended the throne . |
| 7 | My father 's explanation was that " It was simply because he liked the sight of blood " . |
| 8 | It said , In this house ( and the ceramic of the plaque had broken and the name was missing ) stayed on his first visit to the city , and it was here that he wrote the opening pages of his greatest work . |
| 9 | And he was here before he bought the place . |
| 10 | It was pitch black under the overhanging branches and it was n't until he reached the gate of Dobbs ' field that he was able , at last , to distinguish the shapes of the trees , and Dobbs and the wall by the churchyard . |
| 11 | ‘ It was n't until he produced the ring that I took him seriously . ’ |
| 12 | It was n't as he pretended the desire |
| 13 | It was then that he noticed the two men standing behind the butler in the shadows . |
| 14 | It was then that he heard the scream . |