Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dog stopped and he was just about to congratulate himself on his authoritative and successful method of summoning her , when she made a plunging dart forward and seized the mass of cloth in her mouth . |
| 2 | I was just silently congratulating myself on tumbling her secret at last when I realized who the man in the photograph was . |
| 3 | Morgan , whom Engels followed , was once again basing himself on his studies of the Iroquois . |
| 4 | The PSI leader Bettino Craxi , whose reputation had suffered indirectly from corruption scandals in Milan [ see p. 38896 ] , had announced on June 17 that he was no longer presenting himself as a candidate for Prime Minister , but had given President Oscar Scalfaro a list of three PSI candidates — Amato , outgoing Foreign Minister Gianni De Michelis , and outgoing Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Minister Claudio Martelli . |
| 5 | ‘ Absolutely , ’ she said with feeling , dispelling a pang of guilt with the observation that she was certainly not presenting herself in a flattering light . |