Example sentences of "was [verb] [pers pn] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " 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 | As the girl played the woman dilated her nostrils and rose slightly off the piano stool , as if someone was drawing her up by an invisible wire attached to the crown of her head . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The swing of the hurricane was bringing them back into the eye of the storm . |
| 9 | His first instinct was to fling them out of the window ; to put as much distance as he could between them and him . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Erm the erm the erm periodical men who used to come over harvest their job was to pitch it up in the field . |
| 12 | As I left my GP — he was passing me over to a surgeon — and he shook my hand and wished me luck — that in itself was a bad sign — neither the truth nor the meaning had really sunk in . |
| 13 | Then , making their apologies to the professor and his wife , he was whisking her off towards the dance-floor . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ I was to pick her up by the Souk Al-Gadira . ’ |
| 16 | He was saving it up for a rainy day . |
| 17 | It is not known who gave him the letter but it was to set him off on the road to fame and fortune . |
| 18 | And a certain party 's name was not to cross her mind , rather , if it did , she was to wipe it out with a picture of her favourite places , backed by her favourite music . |
| 19 | A moment later , with a curt ‘ Follow me ’ , he was leading her down to the end of the corridor , then along a short passageway off to the right . |
| 20 | He moved his pelvis strongly against her own until she squirmed in his arms , then somehow they were across the room and he was forcing her down among the silk cushions of the four-poster , fingers already lifting the thin wool sweater beneath her unbuttoned jacket , seeking the pulsing softness of her breasts with the mark of desire across his face . |
| 21 | ‘ All he had to do was follow them back to the agency , come in as though wanting to book a holiday , and there was gullible little Hilary all ready and waiting to fall in love . |
| 22 | it 's like , yeah but it 's like , it 's like any big conglomeration int it , if , if I was to buy you out as a company you 're gon na |
| 23 | ‘ He was calling you in as the ultimate specialist . |
| 24 | And wished he had n't because , two weeks later , Donald was holding him up with a sawn-off shotgun for an hour and a half . |
| 25 | It was a full fifteen feet and the offshore wind was holding it up like a crystal tower . |
| 26 | ‘ How did you feel , ’ he said , ‘ when the monkey was holding you up on the roof ? ’ |
| 27 | So this morning the fat little chap in the long white coat who was sorting us out in the Dean 's Office said I 'd better come along here for a few days until they got me organized with another partner . |
| 28 | ‘ I need to see Mr Patterson , ’ I said as if I was letting him in on a big secret . |
| 29 | ‘ I found out , by chance , that the girl I was in love with and hoping to marry was having it off with a colleague . |
| 30 | I managed some breakfast , met up with Colin 's coach Malcolm Arnold who was taking me down to the track , and we walked in the sunshine to where the buses waited to run the shuttle to the Olympic Stadium . |