Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike the others , she did n't rush to say how pleased she was to see him after all this time ; she did n't make polite small talk about Lucasta Redburn 's death . |
| 2 | You do n't know how glad I was to see you in that little cottage talking to old Freitas . |
| 3 | No one would have guessed she was wearing it for any other reason . |
| 4 | So I relaxed as far as I could , and short of thumping my chest like Tarzan , hoped I was emanating nothing but lovely rude health . |
| 5 | I 'd caught a glimpse of my face in the hall mirror once , when Gav was berating me for such rakish tendencies , and I 'd been smiling . |
| 6 | ‘ What do you mean , ma'am ? ’ the sergeant grunted suspiciously , over-sensitive in his present mood , and fearful the superintendent was blaming him for some unknown misdemeanour . |
| 7 | if I was recording you at this precise moment ? |
| 8 | The subject 's task was to decide which of these two alternatives had been presented . |
| 9 | McLeish carried over a loaded tray , and ate ravenously , noting with interest that Catherine Crane had an equally good appetite , though it was not obvious where she was putting it on that slim frame . |
| 10 | He was watching her with such quiet intensity that , for just an instant , she felt as if there were no one else in the square but the two of them . |
| 11 | He was watching her with that same intensity she 'd seen in his face before , the one that made his eyes seem like dark sapphires . |
| 12 | The Indian was telling him about this little fish that lives in the river and — you can guess the rest ! ! ! |
| 13 | Anyway our Darren came in , and I 'm gon na forget Darren came to the caravan and I was telling him about these wet sheets and beds and the mirrors done and what I was doing there and Oh he said and about the mattress he said and I said to him mattress , it 's still the same mattress . |
| 14 | and I was telling them about that Indian or Asian doctor at the City Hospital in the Maternity unit . |
| 15 | My boss was telling me about some old boy right he had a beard for all his life yeah ? |
| 16 | She kept her eyes steadily on the glass , and now the power was concentrating itself in one small part of each eye and growing stronger and stronger and it felt as though millions of tiny little invisible arms with hands on them were shooting out of her eyes towards the glass she was staring at . |
| 17 | How could she feel so physically drawn to him , when intellectually she was detesting him for this arrogant charade ? |
| 18 | He was teasing her with this leisurely foreplay , stoking the fires inside her until they reached the point where they could no longer be contained . |