Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time . |
| 2 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
| 3 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
| 4 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , the Chancellor was bracing himself for a furious political storm when he unveils his autumn package on Thursday , including a mystery ‘ fiscal package ’ ministers are remaining tight-lipped about . |
| 6 | When , in the summer of 1983 , she went to England for a few weeks , she took a French companion whose role was to instruct her during every spare moment . |
| 7 | Before caution could restrain the impulse , he placed his hand over hers where she was resting it on the low wall in front of them . |
| 8 | It 's decreased traffic it 's decreased the traffic for what was using it as a commercial premises . |
| 9 | The courage of Peter er after his denial is something that was given him by the Holy Spirit . |
| 10 | And you know she treasures it because it was given her by a grateful patient centuries ago . |
| 11 | But by far the best gift was given me by a little red-haired girl , Betty , who gave me ( a virgin boy ) her body . |
| 12 | She was helping me with the french . |
| 13 | I was helping him across a busy six-lane road in north London . |
| 14 | Hunt was acquiring something of a bad reputation : both for being accident-prone and for being excessively forthright . |
| 15 | Ginny could only suppose that Ralph thought he was protecting her from a possible nuisance . |
| 16 | The trouble was , of course , that among Henry 's sort of person , a rugby-playing surveyor , for example , or the kind of dentist like David Sprott who was n't afraid to get up on his hind legs at a social gathering and talk , seriously and at length , about teeth , he was considered something of a subversive . |
| 17 | When it was dry , I edged around the unpainted border bands with masking tape very carefully , because now I was applying it onto the painted surface . |
| 18 | There was no sense in expecting any help from the boy , the only thing to be done was to exclude him as an irresponsible minor from the consideration of his own fate . |
| 19 | To cling to a Polish identity was to exclude oneself from the German monopoly on higher education and from all but menial employment in industry ; given the rapid depopulation of the countryside it was also to insist on the right to become and remain part of a backward , ignorant , illiterate , inward-looking agrarian people , stuck in a rural backwater with no access to the outside world , with scant interest from that world and little hope of progress . |
| 20 | It occurred to Cassie that he was keeping himself under an unnatural control , like a muzzled animal . |
| 21 | It was a crisp Saturday morning in February , and the young man had picked her up from her flat and was driving them to a motor-racing track in the heart of Surrey . |
| 22 | Looking impossibly handsome in his formal wedding clothes , he was surveying her with a fierce intensity that not only made her blush furiously , but caused her pulses to race almost out of control . |
| 23 | She never knew how to make it come out sounding as if she was spelling it with a little ‘ m ’ . |
| 24 | Tufnell was still there to wheel away , but after his earlier successes , he was enduring something of a lean spell . |
| 25 | In those circumstances the only option open to a government , determined to return Rover to the private sector , was to sell it to a British company which was not involved in the car industry . |
| 26 | ‘ Ca n't you leave us alone now ? ’ he pleaded and Wexford felt impotently that once again the man was enclosing himself within the unimpregnable defence of grief . |
| 27 | The plan , agreed in 1989 , was to replace it with a purpose-built dental hospital and postgraduate institute . |
| 28 | This man was lodging himself like an irritating burr under her skin . |
| 29 | The third case resulted from the willingness and need of the firm to take work from any source while it was establishing itself in a new market . |
| 30 | It is her ambition to be tried for her life for murdering a small tobacconist with a meat-cleaver , only to be dramatically cleared when her alibi is established by the bishop who was confirming her at the very moment of the crime . |