Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She had been just past Luke when he had caught at her , and now his arms came round her from behind , drawing her back against him , and the response she dreaded was already weakening her as the warmth of him transmitted itself to her . |
| 32 | But he was already leading her to the stairs . |
| 33 | And for the next three or four months , I was just getting it of a weekend . |
| 34 | I watched Paul play his second and I 'm sure he was just like us on the 9th , in between clubs . |
| 35 | When we were reading it I found that I was just reading it as a book and the and that all the coming about you forget who 's in , who 's there and who 's not there . |
| 36 | I was just to present myself at the right time on the due date , when he would honour his promise to see me . |
| 37 | And I suppose all that Oxfam reject rubbish was just to throw me off the scent ? ’ |
| 38 | He 's just putting , just putting , I got three eggs , I was just putting them on the bed I could n't be bothered with them then . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | He was only about two meters away from me and he was like shooting me in the back . |
| 41 | Even Franco , whose automatic reaction to labour unrest was usually to dismiss it as the work of communist agitators , was obliged by the arguments of the Minister of Labour to authorize a 23 per cent general wage increase . |
| 42 | She was always demanding something to the extent that she completely upset the ward routine and had the nursing staff , much as they tried to sympathize with her , at the end of their tethers . |
| 43 | The old woman was always threatening her with a stick-licking if she told lies , but told them herself . |
| 44 | He was still watching her across the table . |
| 45 | Duvall was still holding him by the throat . |
| 46 | He was still holding her by the scruff of the neck . |
| 47 | He was still holding her in the loose circle of his arms and she instantly bridled at the teasing . |
| 48 | He was still clasping her by the shoulders and she tried to shake free . |
| 49 | Anne tried to get up , pulling on a coat , but Nina was still pinning her to the floor . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | He was still confronting me in a pugnacious attitude , but at this he took a step back . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | Mr Lamont was clearly confusing it with the Black-Bellied Sandgrouse ( Pterocles orientalis ) , whose natural habitat is North Africa , said the RSPB yesterday . |
| 55 | One particularly persistent gentleman was clearly using us as a punchbag for his English . |
| 56 | This was clearly to prepare him for the task of taking over the captaincy the next summer . |
| 57 | Great though improvements in European agriculture had been and were to be , it was industry which gave Europe world leadership , as it was later to give it to the United States . |
| 58 | It was an example that , in rather different circumstances , was later to commend itself to the Capetians . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | On the other hand , while Franco was selling strategic minerals to Hitler , he was also selling them to the Allies , precisely because he did not want Spain to become the economic satellite of Germany . |