Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 2 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 3 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 4 | That being so , it is also likely that they were building it for the same military purpose . |
| 5 | Well have they withdrawn one of their submissions to South Oxfordshire that they 've tried to claim that they were using it over the last twelve years and it has now been withdrawn because they know very well that their claim to South Oxfordshire can not be justified about the use . |
| 6 | Thus , a number of professors of English and other influential educationalists were addressing themselves in the altered postwar environment to the issue of the disciplinary revisions required in order to produce " enlightened " bureaucrats , administrators , and teachers . |
| 7 | At the Taj , Indian families were grouping themselves for the professional photographers who swarmed over the central platform . |
| 8 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 9 | The hackers were surpassing themselves in the inventive ways they hit the ball badly , and often , and in the wrong direction . |
| 10 | When you 're seeking a grant for your pet project , you have to sell it to the sponsoring body as if you were touting it on the open market , because there are so many pet projects and only so many grants . |
| 11 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 12 | Now , after a month of nervously transferring it from place to place as the situation worsened , the French government were giving it to the British . |
| 13 | At the start of the year , several firms were steeling themselves for the tough , face-losing decision to pull out of some markets — or out of the securities business altogether . |
| 14 | The expletive sounded strange to the sergeant on Blanche 's lips , as if she were hearing it for the first time . |
| 15 | She was unshackled and they were dragging her from the only remaining hut . |
| 16 | " You will read this book just as though you had bought it at a bookstall and you were reading it in the ordinary way as a whole . " |
| 17 | At the top of the stairs , somewhere beyond a short , misty journey , Jeopardy led Lucien into a room where a handful of musicians were preparing themselves for the coming performance . |
| 18 | She stood up and looked round the room as though she were leaving it for the last time . |
| 19 | And so you were telling me about the twenty six strike . |
| 20 | You were telling me about the common lodging houses . |
| 21 | On the day arrangements went smoothly and we were settling ourselves on the 1220 ex Llangollen when Colin appeared in person , having done his work in the small hours and put our visit ahead of his sleep ! |
| 22 | The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time . |
| 23 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 24 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
| 25 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
| 26 | Before caution could restrain the impulse , he placed his hand over hers where she was resting it on the low wall in front of them . |
| 27 | She was helping me with the french . |
| 28 | When it was dry , I edged around the unpainted border bands with masking tape very carefully , because now I was applying it onto the painted surface . |
| 29 | ‘ Ca n't you leave us alone now ? ’ he pleaded and Wexford felt impotently that once again the man was enclosing himself within the unimpregnable defence of grief . |
| 30 | It is her ambition to be tried for her life for murdering a small tobacconist with a meat-cleaver , only to be dramatically cleared when her alibi is established by the bishop who was confirming her at the very moment of the crime . |