Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnny 's words had left her feeling inadequate , as though he were presenting her with some enormous challenge which she did not feel equal to meet . |
| 2 | Even if they are what you think they are , rival agents , how could they have known you were expecting a letter , and how could they have known you were expecting it on that particular night ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , I was down there because they were questioning me about some old clothes . |
| 4 | She had charm , a way of making you feel that you were joining her in some harmless conspiracy . |
| 5 | For example Alec Hume 's memoirs were described them as this little book about fishing , a beautiful evocation of a countryman in Downing Street who would always rather have been with his fly on the river Tweed on the Scottish Borders . |
| 6 | Unlike the others , she did n't rush to say how pleased she was to see him after all this time ; she did n't make polite small talk about Lucasta Redburn 's death . |
| 7 | You do n't know how glad I was to see you in that little cottage talking to old Freitas . |
| 8 | No one would have guessed she was wearing it for any other reason . |
| 9 | I 'd caught a glimpse of my face in the hall mirror once , when Gav was berating me for such rakish tendencies , and I 'd been smiling . |
| 10 | ‘ What do you mean , ma'am ? ’ the sergeant grunted suspiciously , over-sensitive in his present mood , and fearful the superintendent was blaming him for some unknown misdemeanour . |
| 11 | if I was recording you at this precise moment ? |
| 12 | The subject 's task was to decide which of these two alternatives had been presented . |
| 13 | McLeish carried over a loaded tray , and ate ravenously , noting with interest that Catherine Crane had an equally good appetite , though it was not obvious where she was putting it on that slim frame . |
| 14 | He was watching her with such quiet intensity that , for just an instant , she felt as if there were no one else in the square but the two of them . |
| 15 | He was watching her with that same intensity she 'd seen in his face before , the one that made his eyes seem like dark sapphires . |
| 16 | The Indian was telling him about this little fish that lives in the river and — you can guess the rest ! ! ! |
| 17 | Anyway our Darren came in , and I 'm gon na forget Darren came to the caravan and I was telling him about these wet sheets and beds and the mirrors done and what I was doing there and Oh he said and about the mattress he said and I said to him mattress , it 's still the same mattress . |
| 18 | and I was telling them about that Indian or Asian doctor at the City Hospital in the Maternity unit . |
| 19 | My boss was telling me about some old boy right he had a beard for all his life yeah ? |
| 20 | How could she feel so physically drawn to him , when intellectually she was detesting him for this arrogant charade ? |
| 21 | He was teasing her with this leisurely foreplay , stoking the fires inside her until they reached the point where they could no longer be contained . |