Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pipe feeding the power steering system came adrift on the climb oil to pump out of the hydraulic system , and Fisher seized the opportunity to start building a lead that was eventually to carry him to a record fourth successive Lakes victory . |
| 2 | In adopting this chic mode of expression , the nouveau riche was effectively distinguishing itself from the traditional middle classes while at the same time flaunting the fact that it had connoisseurship and taste . |
| 3 | ‘ Naturally , but I could see that he was merely dismissing them as the ravings of an hysterical woman . |
| 4 | It was all to save me from the Fiery Pit . |
| 5 | A Gothic mahogany bookcase ( lot 478 , est. $6,000–9,000 ) was a beautiful piece of transitional classical/Gothic Revival furniture , though it was obviously missing something at the top , either an additional moulding or added tracery . |
| 6 | The fact that such an occupation was un-likely to provide him with a living did nothing to deter him . |
| 7 | Before very long , Wilson was constantly consulting me on a number of matters and even seeking my opinion on political issues — which he wisely always rejected . |
| 8 | Now Sixsmith was gently frisking himself with a deepening frown . |
| 9 | A speechreader was naturally anticipating something about the price of leather , the usefulness of gumboots — possibly how one hops round the room on one leg pulling them off and so on . |
| 10 | I was only doing it for the money . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And , like the romantic fool I was , I thought Mathilda was only offering herself in an act of desperation . |
| 14 | She was only saying it as a balance . |
| 15 | She was suddenly seeing herself as a desirable young woman — a woman the famous Maître of the Maison de Verveine might have wanted to marry had he been free . |
| 16 | The garnet-work on the sword , however , may indicate Gothic influence , although the use of garnets was soon to become something of a speciality of the Franks . |
| 17 | But Keith was already pushing her into the living-room , bubbling with what he had to say . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But he was already leading her to the stairs . |
| 20 | And for the next three or four months , I was just getting it of a weekend . |
| 21 | I watched Paul play his second and I 'm sure he was just like us on the 9th , in between clubs . |
| 22 | When we were reading it I found that I was just reading it as a book and the and that all the coming about you forget who 's in , who 's there and who 's not there . |
| 23 | I was just to present myself at the right time on the due date , when he would honour his promise to see me . |
| 24 | And I suppose all that Oxfam reject rubbish was just to throw me off the scent ? ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He was just wrapping himself in a garish Hong Kong dressing-gown when the door burst open and a hulking first lieutenant in combat dress , his helmet stuffed with leaves and his face already smeared with camouflage cream , stood staring at him . |
| 27 | He was only about two meters away from me and he was like shooting me in the back . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She was always demanding something to the extent that she completely upset the ward routine and had the nursing staff , much as they tried to sympathize with her , at the end of their tethers . |
| 30 | The old woman was always threatening her with a stick-licking if she told lies , but told them herself . |