Example sentences of "that he was [v-ing] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jimmy adjusted the gun so that he was holding it with both hands . |
| 2 | She was almost angry that he was taking it so calmly . |
| 3 | When his book Early Conversation Pictures appeared , Evelyn took what Henry James would have called ‘ the rash and insensate step ’ of saying that he was enjoying it . |
| 4 | His heart was throbbing painfully , and he controlling his breathing with the greatest of difficulty … but he also realized that he was enjoying it . |
| 5 | I thought he was only joining in to please me , but before long I saw that he was enjoying it too , chiefly I think because to him it was a novelty . |
| 6 | She only hoped that he was enjoying it too , even though he did n't want to go on anything . |
| 7 | It was n't just that he was pitching it lower . |
| 8 | If I heard him correctly , and I thought so , judging by the figures that he was quoting it must have been a more recent Price Waterhouse survey , not the original . |
| 9 | The official story is that he was playing it at a party and people wanted to hear it over and over . |
| 10 | The main reason that he was carrying it rather than wearing it was that it did not belong to him . |
| 11 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with the great reluctance . |
| 12 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 13 | you , er , it had happened because I had been , I had had a lot of training and a lot of swindles and thing , I was able to talked to him and I talked to him for an hour and a half er , I was curious for one thing to find out why he was , he , he was breaking into people 's houses , so that the fact that he was doing it for , to , to get money for drugs |
| 14 | Yeah I know but he did say that even though agents I 'm not giving you this and then he showed me all the things you know to sort of prove that he was doing it . |
| 15 | She had the feeling that he was finding it extraordinarily difficult to keep his own voice even . |
| 16 | He paused , and she sensed that he was finding it difficult to express his thoughts . |
| 17 | ‘ In order to constitute the offence of rape … the prosecution must satisfy you that he effected his purpose by overcoming such resistance as the girl offered , you being satisfied that she was offering resistance and that he was overcoming it . |
| 18 | His hair was cut close into a fringe , to-make the best of the fact that he was losing it . |