Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Naturally , but I could see that he was merely dismissing them as the ravings of an hysterical woman . |
| 2 | It was all to save me from the Fiery Pit . |
| 3 | I was only doing it for the money . ’ |
| 4 | He smiled tenderly , and the knowledge that he was only doing it for the benefit of anyone who might be watching sliced deep into the very heart of her . |
| 5 | Happiness , I knew , was not something she thought much of as an end : it was as if she had said , I 'm glad you do n't mind being poor , and , although when I replied to her , it was only to tell her about the baby , Thomas , and how he had put on five pounds and had cut his first tooth , I brooded over what I might have said while I stood at the sink or pushed the pram , making great , windy speeches in my mind , venting on my absent aunt the curious , unreasonable anger that seemed to rise up before me like a dark pit , bottomless and frightening . |
| 6 | But Keith was already pushing her into the living-room , bubbling with what he had to say . |
| 7 | She had been just past Luke when he had caught at her , and now his arms came round her from behind , drawing her back against him , and the response she dreaded was already weakening her as the warmth of him transmitted itself to her . |
| 8 | But he was already leading her to the stairs . |
| 9 | I watched Paul play his second and I 'm sure he was just like us on the 9th , in between clubs . |
| 10 | And I suppose all that Oxfam reject rubbish was just to throw me off the scent ? ’ |
| 11 | He 's just putting , just putting , I got three eggs , I was just putting them on the bed I could n't be bothered with them then . |
| 12 | He was not supporting me in the way I felt he should support me . |
| 13 | I was not accompanying her to the home but was treating her to a taxi all the way . |
| 14 | When Gina was not smacking him with the laundry bag or scratching his face , they lived a life of complete indifference to one another . |
| 15 | He was only about two meters away from me and he was like shooting me in the back . |
| 16 | Even Franco , whose automatic reaction to labour unrest was usually to dismiss it as the work of communist agitators , was obliged by the arguments of the Minister of Labour to authorize a 23 per cent general wage increase . |
| 17 | He was still watching her across the table . |
| 18 | Duvall was still holding him by the throat . |
| 19 | He was still holding her by the scruff of the neck . |
| 20 | He was still holding her in the loose circle of his arms and she instantly bridled at the teasing . |
| 21 | He was still clasping her by the shoulders and she tried to shake free . |
| 22 | Anne tried to get up , pulling on a coat , but Nina was still pinning her to the floor . |
| 23 | Mr Lamont was clearly confusing it with the Black-Bellied Sandgrouse ( Pterocles orientalis ) , whose natural habitat is North Africa , said the RSPB yesterday . |
| 24 | This was clearly to prepare him for the task of taking over the captaincy the next summer . |
| 25 | Great though improvements in European agriculture had been and were to be , it was industry which gave Europe world leadership , as it was later to give it to the United States . |
| 26 | If it enabled the latter the crucial theoretical move of being able to reject the classical empiricist conception of knowledge , it was also to put him in the position of even castigating as ‘ historicist ’ any attempts to account for theoretical discourse in terms of its historical conditions of production — perhaps one of the major ways in which he differed from Canguilhem and Foucault . |
| 27 | On the other hand , while Franco was selling strategic minerals to Hitler , he was also selling them to the Allies , precisely because he did not want Spain to become the economic satellite of Germany . |
| 28 | On Day One , the simple exercise of shooting a few scenes in the garden was partly to familiarise you with the idea of editing in camera . |
| 29 | And indeed it was from this time that he began to suffer the kind of serious ill health which was regularly to affect him for the rest of his life . |
| 30 | That night , as often when she put Josh to bed , Clare held the most precious thing in her world close to her heart and felt guilty and ashamed that she was n't providing him with the things she thought she should . |