Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] [noun pl] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite official claims to the contrary it was widely believed that China was maintaining its supplies to the Khmers Rouges and considerable stockpiles of arms were thought to have been accumulated . |
| 2 | For the lady — accompanied by red admirals , peacocks and common blues — was fluttering her wings in the new butterfly centre . |
| 3 | Procles was using his wits in the sort of intellectual games — rationalistic interpretations of myths , comparisons of popular military leaders — which appealed to the Greek and Roman public . |
| 4 | I slept badly and had a dream that was to confirm my fears about the ghost . |
| 5 | Vass was gathering their bags from the car boot and leading Lisa and a wide-eyed Emily across a courtyard to the front door of the house . |
| 6 | In September 1692 he produced a Whiggish Jacobite tract in which he rehearsed all the traditional charges against William ( adding to the list the recent massacre at Glencoe ) , and argued that " If it was to preserve our Liberties from the insults of King James , we placed the Prince upon the Throne , we have certainly either mistaken the Disease or the Cure " . |
| 7 | It took me a long time to work out why I was eating my meals off a trampoline . ’ |
| 8 | I felt as if someone was pressing my lungs with a steam-iron . |
| 9 | But Gary was keeping his predictions for the gilt market restrained . |
| 10 | Cecilia found she had clenched her fists and was driving her nails into the palms of her hands . |
| 11 | He was picking his teeth with a match while someone on the phone talked his ear off . |
| 12 | Meanwhile the Conservative Party was regrouping its forces after the defeat of 1945 , building up better-organised and larger constituency parties and reorganising its ideology . |
| 13 | Simultaneously , de Gaulle was pushing his ideas in a parallel series of bilateral meetings , arguing the case with Adenauer in February 1961 and then with the Italian premier in early April . |
| 14 | Harold was flexing his muscles for the perfect balance , teeth bared , knife poised over his head . |
| 15 | I was saving my energies for the return journey . |
| 16 | Dr Les Atkinson , vice-president of the chamber and chairman of BP Shipping , forecast : ‘ Any shipowner who disregards this guidance and causes a pollution incident is going to have an impossible task establishing in the courts that he was operating his vessels in a prudent and competent manner . ’ |
| 17 | Not that she was destined to get any practice at such a mega-speed , since Downes , at least for the first half of the interview , was to enunciate his words with the slow deliberation of a stupefied zombie . |
| 18 | She had sat up and was pulling her fingers through the tangled forest . |
| 19 | He looked helplessly at the adjutant , who was eating ; then at Woolley , who was cleaning his ears with a match stick ; and turned back . |
| 20 | Joyce was informing his listeners of a massive air strike by Luftwaffe bombers against the Kent coast . |
| 21 | Now all he had to do was convince his colleagues in the company of the fact . |
| 22 | After a moment she realised that he was extolling her virtues as a personal assistant . |
| 23 | Amanda Fergusson was directing her field-glasses at the Monastery of Saint James , and her face bore an expression of prim pleasure which shocked her companion . |
| 24 | Those of the first two Edwards were fought against enemies whose common aim was to rid their countries of the English aggressor , but whose methods of doing so differed . |
| 25 | He was gritting his teeth against the pain , keeping it at bay while he studied the stump , the severed hand . |
| 26 | Jeremiah was wearing his pin-stripes with the seat shiny from decades of polishing the council furniture with his bottom . |
| 27 | The committee was to submit its proposals to a 260-member consultative assembly responsible for drafting by the end of the year the new constitution which was expected to be presented for approval in a national referendum . |
| 28 | His hand , which had insinuated itself beneath the cover , was sending her thoughts in an entirely different direction , and as his warm palm began rubbing gently across her back she totally lost track of what he was saying and had to desperately drag her mind back as he continued . |
| 29 | Chalker said , however , that the Sudanese government was evading its responsibilities in the organization of the relief operation . |
| 30 | Sylvia realised it was to fill their bladders for the games to come . |