Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is , they were conscious of the rule , and rather than following it out of obligation , they were using it for their own benefit , as a sort of ‘ officializing ’ or ‘ universalizing ’ strategy in order to ‘ cloak themselves in legitimation ’ . |
| 2 | Leeds were annoying me at their sudden inability to keep the ball on the pitch , either kicking it off , or playing stupid passes up front ( down the middle ) straight to their keeper/defenders . |
| 3 | If you were protecting me for my own good , she thought , I would be cross with you , but not this cross . |
| 4 | Two others were offered it by their usual dealer . |
| 5 | were doing it on their own two feet , |
| 6 | Given time , Boulestin could perhaps with his book of menus have opened the door to organized cooking for thousands of young women who in the thirties were finding themselves on their own in flats and bed-sitting rooms knowing nothing more about how to make a meal than that it ought to taste nice and should not be a bore . |
| 7 | ‘ I have n't worked it out in detail , ’ Melissa admitted , ‘ but I was thinking about it while you were putting her through your puff-and-blow routine … ’ |
| 8 | This wife stood by her afflicted husband and even expressed fears about what might happen if the firm were to remove him from his electronic friend : ‘ I know it sounds funny , but I 'm afraid that losing that computer may break his heart . ’ |
| 9 | The name was spoken with a malevolent hiss , as though he were spitting it from his blood-smeared mouth , so hateful was its foul taste to him . |
| 10 | All over London the bolts on pub doors were tensing themselves for their daily bid for freedom . |
| 11 | The bargemen greeted us as formally as if we were visiting them in their own homes , which I suppose we were . |
| 12 | She was confusing him with her old dreams . |
| 13 | At Metz , in German-occupied Alsace-Lorraine , a station was built which with its German Romanesque frontage , Teutonic warrior statues , and stained-glass images of Charlemagne deliberately aimed to stress the current political status of the province . |
| 14 | Kaptan was to apply himself to something useful . |
| 15 | All of them were drawn together on the basis of a conviction similar to our own that God was calling them to something new . |
| 16 | Defries realized that she was holding something in her right hand . |
| 17 | And they were both agreed that the thing to do with the club was to use it for their private purposes . |
| 18 | He was steadying her with his left arm , fumbling with something in his right hand . |
| 19 | She felt safe only when he was treating her with his customary icy rage . |
| 20 | Yuan was saying something in his own tongue to one of his companions , the man Mubarak , who had been renamed Barakai . |
| 21 | Privately , Robbie considered he was over-reacting , that he was blaming her for his own inability to work today . |
| 22 | She was doing it with her usual spare , economical elegance , but also with the air of one who would rather be doing something else . |
| 23 | But he was doing it for his little girl , his Karen , and for her mother , his wife Ruthie . |
| 24 | In the taxi , while he was dropping her at her small house in Fulham , she made an effort to regain some inch of the indispensable contact she had squandered , but there seemed no way of doing it . |
| 25 | She knew he had an early appointment with one of his lawyers and hoped that that was what was distancing him from her this morning . |
| 26 | Vainly she tried to pull away , but he was crushing her beneath his superior weight . |
| 27 | As for the name , Sam wanted her to be called the Martha and Harry the Bridget , and the only way they could resolve the question was to name her after their favourite place of refreshment , instead . |
| 28 | He laid out the argument : the Mirror had gone to Maxwell and dived downmarket , along with its Sunday counterpart ; the Mail on Sunday was repositioning itself after its disastrous launch , but had still not recovered . |
| 29 | She was clutching something in her right hand , something covered in white powder , as she weaved towards us and sat down heavily and out of breath . |
| 30 | He was sitting on the edge of the table and was regarding her with his steady blue gaze . |