Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , although at this stage the inner reaches of PCF life , the practical realities of daily party cultural work , were slowly revealing themselves to Nizan , his intellectual and ideological development was still very much dominated by sectarian rhetoric and abstract , idealised images of a better future destined to arise from the overthrow of capitalism . |
| 2 | These commitments were constantly distracting him from what he called " my real , philosophical task , to which , if necessary , I must sacrifice my career " . |
| 3 | The elder was behaving as if parties of white women were constantly presenting him with gunpowder . |
| 4 | Parents were merely using it as a front to hit back at them over the premises issue . |
| 5 | ‘ You were only doing it for yourself , using it as an excuse to go back in time and relive old memories . ’ |
| 6 | Well I think , I think that the difference is that if you 're , they were obviously establishing themselves from seed and they picked the right spot and they got themselves anchored . |
| 7 | The solid ground rocked and heaved beneath us , but we were soon gorging ourselves on rich noodles and spicy chilled crabs and lobster — forbidden fruit while amongst our Islamic Bugis . |
| 8 | Giant trees were soon surrounding him on all sides and their branches made an almost solid roof high above his head , blotting out the sky . |
| 9 | The BBC were thus putting themselves in a very difficult journalistic and legal position . |
| 10 | According to a report in the Far Eastern Economic Review of Nov. 19 , Mahathir 's position was not being directly challenged , but many senior UMNO leaders were nevertheless positioning themselves for a future succession battle . |
| 11 | The women reported other significant changes in their lives — by the end of the sessions , none of them were intentionally depriving themselves of food and all were eating regular meals . |
| 12 | Bourdieu wonders how structural anthropologists could be seduced into positing the existence of the rule when informants were just using it as a strategy . |
| 13 | You 're gon na paint them exactly as you would if you were just doing it on paper alright ? |
| 14 | Mind you , they did n't have the sense to do one , two , three , four , five , they were just doing lots of lines , so they got about |
| 15 | So they were just surrounding it in places . |
| 16 | We were already congratulating ourselves on a smooth and successful ascent , but you must beware . |
| 17 | Improvements in firms ' procedures were deemed necessary in many of the firms the Joint Monitoring Unit ( JMU ) visited , but in many cases firms were already implementing them by the time of our visits . |
| 18 | People were always taking him in hand , hoping to reform him , to make him conform to their own self-centred ideal of what he should be . |
| 19 | Fourth , and finally , the rejection of the Athenians by the Spartans makes more sense if the Ephialtic reforms are seen as part of a process rather than as an event , that is , if the qualities which the Spartans feared were gradually manifesting themselves over the whole thirty-year period , 487–457 . |
| 20 | They were still watching him with fox-like concentration . |
| 21 | The emergent divisions of labour in industrialised society were also a prime means by which modern societies were still sustaining themselves in a relatively conflict-free way . |
| 22 | The Communists were busily isolating themselves from the labour movement ; the Independent Labour Party was about to do the same . |
| 23 | Margaret Jones : ‘ I remember David asked me to get my dressmaker to taper his trousers and before long other members of his form were also getting me to taper their trousers , so I suppose in a way I was almost helping them to rebel against Mr Frampton . ’ |
| 24 | As his new Control explained , the faction of the Lebanese Forces involved in the aborted Contra arms-for-drugs deal in 1985 were known to have members who were DEA CIs , and they were probably tracking him through credit reports , listing his current address , employer and so forth , obtained through Bank Audi , a Beirut bank with a branch in New York . |
| 25 | What is most apparent about the correspondence — apart from Pound 's tendency to lecture Eliot on whom he should publish and what cause to support is Eliot 's extraordinary ability to mimic Pound 's verbal mannerisms , as if he were willingly immersing himself in his personality . |
| 26 | Progressives and reformers never captured the movies ; they merely influenced them in a particular direction , a direction that the producers would appear to be following closely whereas in fact they were really using it for their own ends . |
| 27 | Presumably an item so secret that they were even keeping it from Dr Al-Kaysi of the University of Yarmouk . |
| 28 | He had to — they were doubtless watching him on the closed-circuit television . |
| 29 | Sky T V so they were either watching it on their own or being very neighbourly with their neighbours or listening to it on the radio or as you say , up in Liverpool . |
| 30 | The Senior Management team were evidently congratulating themselves on having recruited such an able young lady . |