Example sentences of "was [verb] [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's decreased traffic it 's decreased the traffic for what was using it as a commercial premises . |
| 8 | The courage of Peter er after his denial is something that was given him by the Holy Spirit . |
| 9 | And you know she treasures it because it was given her by a grateful patient centuries ago . |
| 10 | But by far the best gift was given me by a little red-haired girl , Betty , who gave me ( a virgin boy ) her body . |
| 11 | She was helping me with the french . |
| 12 | I was helping him across a busy six-lane road in north London . |
| 13 | Ginny could only suppose that Ralph thought he was protecting her from a possible nuisance . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She never knew how to make it come out sounding as if she was spelling it with a little ‘ m ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The plan , agreed in 1989 , was to replace it with a purpose-built dental hospital and postgraduate institute . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As a result , England now had its own foothold upon France 's northern coast through which trade and armies might enter ; or , as the emperor-elect , Sigismund , was to express it in the next century , a second eye to match the other , Dover , in guarding the straits . |
| 23 | His aim was to reconvert them to a Unitarian Christianity devoid of superstition . |
| 24 | The government 's obvious intention was to identify me as the main source of all the criticism and speculation running counter to the official line on Flight 103 and then to destroy me . |
| 25 | There too a twenty year old who has managed to kick a habit that was leading him down a dangerous path . |
| 26 | As Estella was leading me along the dark passages , she stopped suddenly and put her face close to mine . |
| 27 | Agnese was leading them through the front door into a cool tiled hallway , strewn with locally woven rugs and sweet with the delicate scent of freesias . |
| 28 | It 's a very striking book because while on the one hand he admires the Bolsheviks very greatly for the hope that they have given to man , for the feeling that they have given to the world that new potentialities are there to be realized if only we had enough courage , yet on the other hand , even at that point , he was acutely conscious that the Bolsheviks ' attitude towards the equality of power was leading them in a fatal direction , and long before Stalinism began to take shape , he described in advance what he expected to come . |
| 29 | One of them was that the nurse , robbed of her pleasure in subduing the hair , turned her savagery more directly on to Harriet and once in a temper broke both of her charge 's thumbs when she was forcing her into a new pair of white kid gloves for Sunday School . |
| 30 | I have to pay 80p for one piece of Vallis , Cabomba etc at any of the fish centres in this part of the world and £1.50 each if I was to buy them in the little pots . |