Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not supporting me in the way I felt he should support me . |
| 2 | He was only about two meters away from me and he was like shooting me in the back . |
| 3 | He was still holding her in the loose circle of his arms and she instantly bridled at the teasing . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When he wrenched his back he was n't doing anything in the house , when he wrenched his back all he was doing was lifting the carton of the back seat of the car . |
| 6 | The only sensible course was never to start it in the first place . |