Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BBC were thus putting themselves in a very difficult journalistic and legal position . |
| 2 | According to a report in the Far Eastern Economic Review of Nov. 19 , Mahathir 's position was not being directly challenged , but many senior UMNO leaders were nevertheless positioning themselves for a future succession battle . |
| 3 | We were already congratulating ourselves on a smooth and successful ascent , but you must beware . |
| 4 | Fourth , and finally , the rejection of the Athenians by the Spartans makes more sense if the Ephialtic reforms are seen as part of a process rather than as an event , that is , if the qualities which the Spartans feared were gradually manifesting themselves over the whole thirty-year period , 487–457 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Communists were busily isolating themselves from the labour movement ; the Independent Labour Party was about to do the same . |
| 7 | In adopting this chic mode of expression , the nouveau riche was effectively distinguishing itself from the traditional middle classes while at the same time flaunting the fact that it had connoisseurship and taste . |
| 8 | Now Sixsmith was gently frisking himself with a deepening frown . |
| 9 | And , like the romantic fool I was , I thought Mathilda was only offering herself in an act of desperation . |
| 10 | She was suddenly seeing herself as a desirable young woman — a woman the famous Maître of the Maison de Verveine might have wanted to marry had he been free . |
| 11 | I was just to present myself at the right time on the due date , when he would honour his promise to see me . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ The truth is I knew throughout the summer that my game was not as sharp and I was not enjoying myself on the course as I did in 1991 . |
| 14 | Devon Malcolm was not sparing himself on a pitch which was offering help to all the bowlers but Waugh seemed to have a ridiculous amount of time to ease him through the leg field twice in an over for two of his 10 boundaries . |
| 15 | Confounded by this reply , Oscar looked across at the other man to see that he was n't looking at the stars at all , but was still busying himself with the body . |
| 16 | Paul had reasons for the private emptying of his ; he was still treating himself with a solution of the doctor 's recommended potassium permanganate crystals , and had to make his exit quickly when Willie was out of the room , as that gregarious gentleman would have come with him on the same errand ; then hurry outside with the tell-tale purple contents , empty them , rinse the pot at the pump , and come back . |
| 17 | The Bulgarian succession problem , indeed , was gradually settling itself under the noses of the mighty opposites , because each day made joint action on Bulgaria less likely . |
| 18 | It was an example that , in rather different circumstances , was later to commend itself to the Capetians . |
| 19 | He turned : Suki , who had been shopping , was now letting herself into the apartment , not without difficulty . |
| 20 | He was now presenting himself as a cynical hard-nosed East End wheeler-dealer . |
| 21 | A remarkably similar dilemma was now presenting itself over the hand-overs of the Yugoslavs . |
| 22 | This group , as well as the anti-nuclear movement itself , was strongly influenced by members of Revolutionary Struggle , an extreme left-wing group which mixed neo-Marxist economic analysis with traditional republican ideology and was strongly influenced itself by the revolutionary movement in Italy and , to a lesser extent , France , at the time . |
| 23 | ‘ Maybe I was n't disgracing myself on the park , but I was cheating the Sheffield fans and manager Jimmy Sirrell . |
| 24 | So did my father , he was n't to bother himself with the day-to-day things like washing sheets or buying food , that was her job , she made it plain . |
| 25 | When he was satisfied no fresh threat was about to manifest itself from the darkness , he moved off back the way he had come , retracing his steps until he reached the shallow stream he had leapt a short time before . |
| 26 | In the morning Alix was about to apply herself to a file of Home Office statistics when the phone rang . |
| 27 | Splashing through the dark flood , I was again throwing myself at the door when a key turned in its great lock and it opened . |
| 28 | She was definitely distancing herself from the older woman . |