Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Fourth , and finally , the rejection of the Athenians by the Spartans makes more sense if the Ephialtic reforms are seen as part of a process rather than as an event , that is , if the qualities which the Spartans feared were gradually manifesting themselves over the whole thirty-year period , 487–457 . |
| 3 | The Communists were busily isolating themselves from the labour movement ; the Independent Labour Party was about to do the same . |
| 4 | He had to — they were doubtless watching him on the closed-circuit television . |
| 5 | In adopting this chic mode of expression , the nouveau riche was effectively distinguishing itself from the traditional middle classes while at the same time flaunting the fact that it had connoisseurship and taste . |
| 6 | ‘ Naturally , but I could see that he was merely dismissing them as the ravings of an hysterical woman . |
| 7 | A Gothic mahogany bookcase ( lot 478 , est. $6,000–9,000 ) was a beautiful piece of transitional classical/Gothic Revival furniture , though it was obviously missing something at the top , either an additional moulding or added tracery . |
| 8 | A speechreader was naturally anticipating something about the price of leather , the usefulness of gumboots — possibly how one hops round the room on one leg pulling them off and so on . |
| 9 | I was only doing it for the money . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But Keith was already pushing her into the living-room , bubbling with what he had to say . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But he was already leading her to the stairs . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He was only about two meters away from me and he was like shooting me in the back . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He was still watching her across the table . |
| 18 | Duvall was still holding him by the throat . |
| 19 | He was still holding her by the scruff of the neck . |
| 20 | He was still holding her in the loose circle of his arms and she instantly bridled at the teasing . |
| 21 | He was still clasping her by the shoulders and she tried to shake free . |
| 22 | Anne tried to get up , pulling on a coat , but Nina was still pinning her to the floor . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Mr Lamont was clearly confusing it with the Black-Bellied Sandgrouse ( Pterocles orientalis ) , whose natural habitat is North Africa , said the RSPB yesterday . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He turned : Suki , who had been shopping , was now letting herself into the apartment , not without difficulty . |
| 28 | A remarkably similar dilemma was now presenting itself over the hand-overs of the Yugoslavs . |
| 29 | He knew , because in a town the size of Plumford everybody knew these things , that Hubert Molland had been given a combined parish a few miles outside Plumford , and that the Mollands were now living in Champney Crucis ; he knew that Kate had left school and was now doing something at the technical college ; and , more importantly , he had heard from Joe that she was going out with the local MP 's youngest son , whose name was Julian and who drove a Triumph Spitfire . |
| 30 | The first type was silently saying something to the second type . |