Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " 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 | Her two sons had watched the scene from a distance and were soon to report it to the authorities . |
| 3 | Bourdieu wonders how structural anthropologists could be seduced into positing the existence of the rule when informants were just using it as a strategy . |
| 4 | Improvements in firms ' procedures were deemed necessary in many of the firms the Joint Monitoring Unit ( JMU ) visited , but in many cases firms were already implementing them by the time of our visits . |
| 5 | He had to — they were doubtless watching him on the closed-circuit television . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Naturally , but I could see that he was merely dismissing them as the ravings of an hysterical woman . |
| 8 | It was all to save me from the Fiery Pit . |
| 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 | I was only doing it for the money . ’ |
| 12 | He smiled tenderly , and the knowledge that he was only doing it for the benefit of anyone who might be watching sliced deep into the very heart of her . |
| 13 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 14 | She was only saying it as a balance . |
| 15 | But Keith was already pushing her into the living-room , bubbling with what he had to say . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But he was already leading her to the stairs . |
| 18 | And for the next three or four months , I was just getting it of a weekend . |
| 19 | I watched Paul play his second and I 'm sure he was just like us on the 9th , in between clubs . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And I suppose all that Oxfam reject rubbish was just to throw me off the scent ? ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He was only about two meters away from me and he was like shooting me in the back . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The old woman was always threatening her with a stick-licking if she told lies , but told them herself . |
| 26 | He was still watching her across the table . |
| 27 | Duvall was still holding him by the throat . |
| 28 | He was still holding her by the scruff of the neck . |
| 29 | He was still holding her in the loose circle of his arms and she instantly bridled at the teasing . |
| 30 | He was still clasping her by the shoulders and she tried to shake free . |