Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they were not having anybody in the mine , with a watch , who could let people know exactly what the time was , and in other words , create a situation where the men might go home before they 'd completed this particular task . |
| 2 | The BBC were thus putting themselves in a very difficult journalistic and legal position . |
| 3 | The emergent divisions of labour in industrialised society were also a prime means by which modern societies were still sustaining themselves in a relatively conflict-free way . |
| 4 | And , like the romantic fool I was , I thought Mathilda was only offering herself in an act of desperation . |
| 5 | He was just wrapping himself in a garish Hong Kong dressing-gown when the door burst open and a hulking first lieutenant in combat dress , his helmet stuffed with leaves and his face already smeared with camouflage cream , stood staring at him . |
| 6 | He was not supporting me in the way I felt he should support me . |
| 7 | He was only about two meters away from me and he was like shooting me in the back . |
| 8 | He was still holding her in the loose circle of his arms and she instantly bridled at the teasing . |
| 9 | He was still confronting me in a pugnacious attitude , but at this he took a step back . |
| 10 | If it enabled the latter the crucial theoretical move of being able to reject the classical empiricist conception of knowledge , it was also to put him in the position of even castigating as ‘ historicist ’ any attempts to account for theoretical discourse in terms of its historical conditions of production — perhaps one of the major ways in which he differed from Canguilhem and Foucault . |
| 11 | When he wrenched his back he was n't doing anything in the house , when he wrenched his back all he was doing was lifting the carton of the back seat of the car . |
| 12 | One early significant occasion for me was actually meeting someone in a bookshop in the Finchley Road when I was about sixteen . |
| 13 | The only sensible course was never to start it in the first place . |