Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] thus [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was thus occupied by precisely the same ambition which had driven Vasco Núñez four and a half centuries before . |
| 2 | ‘ My heart was hot within me and while I was thus musing the fire kindled : and at the last I spake with my tongue … ’ |
| 3 | While she was thus engaged Chignell had summoned the hotel doctor , who presently ushered her into his sanctum and gave her something to drink , which tasted horrible but made her feel much better . |
| 4 | It was impossible she should be unaware of the treat she was thus providing for the soldiery , many of whom expressed their appreciation in appropriately ribald terms . |
| 5 | At the time I conjectured — and she said doubtfully that I might be right — that she was thus exorcizing the spirit of ‘ ferocity , brutality , violence ’ , which had tempted her artist in A Wreath of Roses away from her true world , and made her fearful of being ‘ ladylike , nostalgic , governessy ’ . |
| 6 | I put his age at forty , but even among men twenty years younger he would have been accounted handsome , and he knew it , for his expression showed both confidence and amusement as he continued to hold Ellen 's hand , and he showed even more amusement when she suddenly realised just what liberty she was thus granting him and jerked her fingers swiftly away . |
| 7 | Another mechanism by which the amount of repressor can be kept low in the nucleus involves the possibility that the repressor be confined in the cytoplasm ; we were thus prompted to test the nucleo-cytoplasmic ripartition of the X binding activity in Raji and RJ2.2.5 . |
| 8 | What should have been equally obvious to the assemblymen was the fury they were thus provoking , including megaphonic demonstrations by the opposition Democratic Progressive party to coincide with the students ' protests . |
| 9 | Mothers of Welsh infants of similar age were then recruited from the same areas of the city ; they were thus living in similar accommodation and served by the same health professionals . |
| 10 | Menfolk lit up stubby pipes and soon the air was full of the pungent smoke of twist tobacco , I think it was probably called X X Boggy Roll , and many a yarn was spoken while they were thus enjoying their break . |
| 11 | They were thus inspired to assume flower names , and attracted a great deal of attention and interest — precisely , in fact , what they had previously been denied . |
| 12 | ( They were thus represented in Maynard Keynes ' Economic Consequences of the Peace , which Pound had read by 1920 . ) |
| 13 | Whilst they were thus disputing , politely , the moral niceties of their interesting situation , a rushing sound was heard , and a melodious twanging , and the lady became very agitated , and said the black magician was on his way . |
| 14 | They were thus known by the name of ‘ enabling schemes ’ . |
| 15 | Needing this reassurance , they were thus encouraged to innovate , to work hard , and to strive to succeed . |
| 16 | They were thus encouraged to stay long when they might not otherwise have done so . |
| 17 | They were thus driving the wedge further and further into a division of labour from which they were the first to suffer . |
| 18 | My recollection was that the detective story was one of E. Phillips Oppenheim 's , and that it concerned a horrific murder whereby the victim was , so to speak , liquefied and poured down the sink , so that the ‘ essence ’ of him was thus disposed of . |
| 19 | One of the most important elements of the project design was the intention to employ locally recruited people ( as in the Kent project ; see later in this chapter ) to provide any extra care needed ; local recruitment was important for it was thus hoped to build on , or build up , neighbourhood contacts around the dementia sufferer and his or her family . |
| 20 | The ability of the electoral system to produce a government in the way previously expected of it was thus called into question . |
| 21 | It was thus intended to have a much wider appeal than the old Catholic Centre Party , which gradually faded away after the war . |
| 22 | It was thus conceded that there was a breach of Code C 11.5 and 11.6 of PACE . |
| 23 | The whole operation and the monitoring of it was thus rendered more complicated , yet at the same time the experiment became far richer . |
| 24 | It was thus made clear that there was no connection with the consecration of bishops who were anointed on their heads . |
| 25 | It was thus decided not to bring the proposal back to the Committee . |
| 26 | It was thus proposed to organise two workshops on this topic for the 19th century , one on the trade across the Indian Ocean , and a later one on the trans-Saharan trade . |
| 27 | It was thus acquiring additional rights ‘ to receive the place for which it is destined ’ but instead of independence , there was the rather less exciting prospect of an Indochinese Federation which would ‘ enjoy the liberty and the organization necessary to the development of all its resources ’ . |
| 28 | It was thus agreed that redemption , to the sun of £100 only ( 4 x £25 bonds ) , be drawn for and should a bondholder so drawn insist on taking his money then the Bolney Syndicate would , if necessary , buy the bonds so saving the Club 's strained resources . |
| 29 | The limpness of the body as it was thus laid in place was pitiful . |
| 30 | It was thus found that the majority of the reaction time required was in identifying the values of the card and choosing the pile onto which it should be placed . |