Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not using it to further his own human development , he was using it up for the profit of the people who paid him , the anonymous shareholders and their abstract interests . |
| 2 | They were in the bedroom and he was tucking her in under the quilt , stroking her forehead , pushing back the damp strands of blonde hair where her tears had soaked them . |
| 3 | The difficulty was sneaking it out of the mill . |
| 4 | All she really wanted was to see him out of the house . |
| 5 | I decided the only thing to do was throw her in at the deep end and go right down the village high street , where the roads were busiest and noisiest with holiday-makers , and simply stand there trying to calm her down . |
| 6 | She had him by the hand by then , and was drawing him in to the hearth , for the early November mist was on his shoulders , and his face looked thin and cold . |
| 7 | The swing of the hurricane was bringing them back into the eye of the storm . |
| 8 | His first instinct was to fling them out of the window ; to put as much distance as he could between them and him . |
| 9 | Nigel Powley ( 53 ) successfully defended his title , although William Speake ( 66 ) was catching him late in the race . |
| 10 | Sharp whey-like sweat came off hum as she smelt his closeness ; he was walking her backwards into the recess of the arched double doors of a neighbour 's carriage entrance , sticking to her awkwardly , like children playing at dancing , standing on each other 's feet , and when he had her against the door , he took his hand from the underside of her breast , and fingering her nipple , made it rise , then tweaked it till it stood up higher ; twinges darted from her breast to her groin , and Rosa closed her eyes with a little gasp . |
| 11 | Rain knew Oliver was picturing himself back in the wine bar in Chelsea telling everyone how he 'd been mistaken for a drug dealer and nearly done to death in a Mediterranean backstreet by an underworld rival . |
| 12 | A few weeks after their visit to the Peristrephic Panorama , her father was rowing her slowly across the serpentine lake on the neighbouring estate of Lord F- . |
| 13 | ‘ As he was knocking me all around the ring , ’ said Holyfield , ‘ I thought he 'll miss soon and maybe I 'll get the chance to knock him out . ’ |
| 14 | All she succeeded in doing was knocking it farther over the slithering groundsheet . |
| 15 | A harry torrent flooded through the opening and in no time at all the herd was legging it back to the high land in a wild stampede . |
| 16 | Erm the erm the erm periodical men who used to come over harvest their job was to pitch it up in the field . |
| 17 | ‘ Then I shall get a train in the opposite direction , ’ he said , thinking that there was something sad about it , especially now that she was thanking him politely for the drinks . |
| 18 | Then , making their apologies to the professor and his wife , he was whisking her off towards the dance-floor . |
| 19 | It was n't just a matter of meeting an old comedian ; I was meeting someone out of the dustier corners of my private pantheon . |
| 20 | She was confused , one of her friends was picking her up at the studios that afternoon , not M. Apéritif , but a doe-eyed Persian who was — he said — training to be an engineer . |
| 21 | Melissa was beginning to wish the conversation had never started ; the last thing she wanted was to become embroiled in a dispute between two women she hardly knew , but Rose was looking her squarely in the eye as if demanding a response to her outburst . |
| 22 | Joe , in fact , was looking her straight in the eye . |
| 23 | ‘ I was to pick her up by the Souk Al-Gadira . ’ |
| 24 | As he was speaking , he was pushing her relentlessly towards the bottom of the stairs . |
| 25 | In a flash he was pushing her away from the path they were making and into the cover of the undergrowth . |
| 26 | It is not known who gave him the letter but it was to set him off on the road to fame and fortune . |
| 27 | He was pulling something out of the hedge . |
| 28 | In a moment he had gripped her hand in his and was pulling her away from the bale on which she had been resting . |
| 29 | Hands was pulling himself up among the sails now , the knife between his teeth . |
| 30 | ‘ Pumlumon was directing it straight at the giants , ’ said Caspar . |