Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents were merely using it as a front to hit back at them over the premises issue . |
| 2 | The BBC were thus putting themselves in a very difficult journalistic and legal position . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Bourdieu wonders how structural anthropologists could be seduced into positing the existence of the rule when informants were just using it as a strategy . |
| 5 | We were already congratulating ourselves on a smooth and successful ascent , but you must beware . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The key words , which were later to become something of a catch-phrase , were ‘ fresh start ’ . |
| 8 | A pipe feeding the power steering system came adrift on the climb oil to pump out of the hydraulic system , and Fisher seized the opportunity to start building a lead that was eventually to carry him to a record fourth successive Lakes victory . |
| 9 | The fact that such an occupation was un-likely to provide him with a living did nothing to deter him . |
| 10 | Before very long , Wilson was constantly consulting me on a number of matters and even seeking my opinion on political issues — which he wisely always rejected . |
| 11 | Now Sixsmith was gently frisking himself with a deepening frown . |
| 12 | She was only saying it as a balance . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The garnet-work on the sword , however , may indicate Gothic influence , although the use of garnets was soon to become something of a speciality of the Franks . |
| 15 | And for the next three or four months , I was just getting it of a weekend . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The old woman was always threatening her with a stick-licking if she told lies , but told them herself . |
| 19 | He was still confronting me in a pugnacious attitude , but at this he took a step back . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | One particularly persistent gentleman was clearly using us as a punchbag for his English . |
| 22 | but that she was also winning something of a reputation as a tough cookie , a determined career girl refusing to be deflected from her dreams . |
| 23 | Benny was about to ask why , but before she could , Ace had produced her blaster and was busily setting it for a narrow beam to cut through the door . |
| 24 | He was bent over the prow of a little wooden sailboat — he was obviously having a rest from speedboat practice today — and was busily tightening something with a big screwdriver . |
| 25 | He had the writer laid out , face down with his baggy trousers around his knees , on a marble-topped kitchen table , and was anally violating him with a large , unwashed carrot . |
| 26 | Because he had prayed with a pure heart throughout the night , a tendril from the God-Emperor was now nudging him like a guardian spirit . |
| 27 | He was now presenting himself as a cynical hard-nosed East End wheeler-dealer . |
| 28 | Waugh and Orwell took opposite sides on Ethiopia and Spain ; but not on Hitler , for whom Waugh never showed a particle of sympathy , and his anti-Hitlerism was even to become something like a practical ideal for Orwell . |
| 29 | One early significant occasion for me was actually meeting someone in a bookshop in the Finchley Road when I was about sixteen . |