Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she remembered he was just using her to get the company , to get her to marry him ! |
| 2 | Erm I mean I was just finding myself expressing the views that er given the dramatic change in the composition of the County Council since the election , I would have thought something as major as the East Grinstead by-pass would need to be considered by the new council anyway and er I think it would be perhaps er assuming too much er to believe that the present council would follow the line of the previous council that 's only er a personal expression . |
| 3 | There is an issue about how much choice some people can exercise and I recognise that issue but the idea was not to force anybody to make the move . |
| 4 | My mother was always telling him to measure the right amount with the cap of the bottle , but it was n't his style . |
| 5 | This might seem more than enough for one life , but in the Ravensbruck concentration camp to which she was now sent she met the woman with whom she formed the other crucial relationship of her life , with Milena Jesenska , whose own life experience drew Margarete intensely , if vicariously , into another of the crucial Central European milieux of that period — the Prager Kreis of Willy Haas , Max Brod and Kafka , whose lover , and early translator , Milena was . |
| 6 | But it was the gruelling work schedule Kylie was now working which placed the greatest strain according to friends . |
| 7 | Mutual cooperation was undesirable from the generals ' point of view , because it was n't helping them to win the war . |
| 8 | yeah there 's a muse th th there 's a museum at Carne in Normandy , I do n't know if anyone 's been there , we went there last year , and it , it 's a new museum , a memorial museum and that 's the most moving place I 've ever been because it 's actually designed to show how awful war is and that it should n't happen again , it 's not a museum glorifying war , it 's a museum showing that , that it should n't happen , we should n't let it happen and there 's a erm there 's a great big case as you go in which has er a statement from every country that took part in the war , including Germany , and they 're all there , they 're all there together saying that you should n't you should n't let it happen and , and and I , I thought that was the sort o you know i i it was very impressive because i it was n't glorifying anybody , it was n't saying we won the war , you lost the war it was it was a , a coming together to say that it should n't happen . |
| 9 | He was n't doing it to advance the Allied cause . |
| 10 | What he did n't say and you did n't pick up was how do you get the screwdrivers underneath the nail head without damaging the wood , seeing as nails are usually driven in flush with the face of the timber . |
| 11 | His wife was anxiously encouraging him to strengthen the acquaintance as they were influential people , but he was not yet sufficiently advanced in his profession to feel he ought to push for invitations . |
| 12 | It was no use her demonstrating the comfortable appointments of my environment . |
| 13 | A modification of the original click paradigm was therefore devised which removed the possibility of click displacement being due to these two latter influences . |