Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was aware of nothing else but his compelling , mesmeric eyes , which were rooting her to the spot , setting a torch to her , the shooting flames searing her insides . |
| 2 | Though he was more like his old self , many suspected they were seeing him for the last time . |
| 3 | He went in acting very worried , looking at people as though ashamed that they were seeing him in a cinema . |
| 4 | He probably just assumed that you were seeing me in connection with my work . ’ |
| 5 | Before leaving he stood for a moment at the door and let his eyes range round the room as if he were seeing it for the first time . |
| 6 | If you were seeing it for the first time , what impressions would you receive ? |
| 7 | Er and the Italians at that time were producing them under licence from . |
| 8 | Yes , with , with the wine we were subsidising it by about one fifty last year , shall I put it up to five fifty this year ? for members . |
| 9 | They felt that a good deal of the South Western Board 's troubles were brought on by excessive expenditure and inadequate tariffs , and Steward found little sympathy from the other Boards , since some of them had equally serious system extension , reinforcement and standardisation problems , and were financing them by adequate tariffs . |
| 10 | That being so , it is also likely that they were building it for the same military purpose . |
| 11 | I think that 's an implication of what they were accusing him of , but were they bringing him to trial for . |
| 12 | They were accusing him of claiming to be God . |
| 13 | Those testing to these abuses often explained that their treatment was due to the intrigues of local government officials , who were accusing them of collaboration with the Contras . |
| 14 | They were using me as a guinea-pig to investigate the hourly variation in mental efficiency of those with irregular sleeping patterns , such as airline pilots or globe-trotting diplomats . |
| 15 | ‘ So you were using me as a stud , min kaere . |
| 16 | The Aztecs were using it at the time of the Spanish Conquest in the form of mosaic applied to wooden masks of their gods , combined with shell inlays for eyes and teeth ( Plate E ) . |
| 17 | There was a disco where beer was on sale but thoughts of dancing the night away evaporated when we found other people were using it for sleeping . |
| 18 | That is , they were conscious of the rule , and rather than following it out of obligation , they were using it for their own benefit , as a sort of ‘ officializing ’ or ‘ universalizing ’ strategy in order to ‘ cloak themselves in legitimation ’ . |
| 19 | In their view the Commission were giving Article 100A an unduly wide construction and were using it for proposals which should properly have been based on some alternative Article of the EEC Treaty , such as Article 100 or Article 235 , which required unanimity in the Council . |
| 20 | We were using it for drunk driving offenders and repeat traffic offenders , not so much because I felt they were the only people who were appropriate for it , but because we wanted to make sure we started with a group who were not likely to get into major trouble should the project not work out . |
| 21 | Well have they withdrawn one of their submissions to South Oxfordshire that they 've tried to claim that they were using it over the last twelve years and it has now been withdrawn because they know very well that their claim to South Oxfordshire can not be justified about the use . |
| 22 | Harrison v Hill [ 1932 ] SC ( J ) 13 where a road maintained by a farmer , leading from the public road to his farmhouse , was held to be a road , the farmer turned away people who were using it from time to time but it was also used by people having no business at the farm ; |
| 23 | ‘ Both were using it in the sense that , in regard to the Inns , the judges over a long period , from time to time , had concurred in the Inns performing the duty of selecting those persons who were fit and proper persons to be called to the Bar and to be entitled to a right of audience in the courts and the duty of suspending or prohibiting such persons from practice . |
| 24 | Leeds were annoying me at their sudden inability to keep the ball on the pitch , either kicking it off , or playing stupid passes up front ( down the middle ) straight to their keeper/defenders . |
| 25 | You were cheering them to . ’ |
| 26 | However , a great many books that , if one were tabulating them by content , would perhaps have to be called why-dun-its still have in them considerable elements of other sub-genres . |
| 27 | ‘ They were sawing it in half and heaving all these rocks around on the Saturday morning trying to make it look like anything other than a total abortion . |
| 28 | If your friends were daring you to . |
| 29 | erm People were bringing it for us , friends were bringing it into us . |
| 30 | erm People were bringing it for us , friends were bringing it into us . |