Example sentences of "was probably [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Including a senior , a boy about seventeen , who was probably subjecting his teacher to a certain amount of needling ? ’ |
| 2 | She was exhausted , she was close to tears or laughter , she was probably getting drunk , topping up on last night 's alcohol . |
| 3 | So I was probably enjoying British progressive rock at the same time I was listening to American jazz . ’ |
| 4 | It soon became obvious that I was probably pushing the cutter and grinder too hard and had to adjust my force . |
| 5 | Bugger was probably reading a newspaper . |
| 6 | Sergeant Evans took an aspirin with a cup of office coffee and reflected that the Chief Superintendent was probably reading his Essex dossier now . |
| 7 | I was probably reacting in part because leaving Genesis was a sad note . |
| 8 | Then her innate honesty forced her to realise he was probably speaking no more than the truth , and she gave a single reluctant nod . |
| 9 | With only ten days to go , this was a disaster ( not that I 'm blaming the Council — there was probably misunderstanding on both sides ; I had no idea they worked on such a miniscule budget , and they for their part probably expected expenditure in the hundreds , rather than the thousands . |
| 10 | He grew very hot and thought that he was probably looking runnier than ever , but felt it would be courting horse trouble to take off his jacket . |
| 11 | Travis was probably looking for her already . |
| 12 | That is the only mention of a ‘ co-producer ’ and Lionel Luyt suggests that John was probably using Patricia Murphy to work out steps and phrases on her . |
| 13 | Eden was probably referring to the unfortunate statement from Henry Hopkinson , junior minister at the Colonial Office , that Cyprus would ‘ never ’ be granted full independence , and a domestic slip-up : an announcement that the manufacture of heroin would cease entirely in the UK ( the medical profession subtly pointed out its legitimate uses as a drug ) . |
| 14 | Thomas 's confrère Roger Bacon [ q.v. ] was probably referring to him when he wrote scornfully of a colleague who had presumed to teach philosophy without having read it ( Opus Minus , ed . |
| 15 | The hon. Lady was probably referring to cuts in regional development grants , which reflected a move away from automatic grants which went into loss-making nationalised industries . |
| 16 | Celia felt that Dr Shalcross was probably thinking what a dismal time she must have had . |
| 17 | Stella thought she was probably thinking about her treacherous husband . |
| 18 | He was probably thinking that in these times it was not worth taking the risk of offending anyone , just in case they were agents of Horemheb and you ended up in an emerald mine on the Eastern Coast . |
| 19 | Herbert Kretzmer wrote in the Daily Express that he heard a voice call out , ‘ Rubbish ’ — to which he himself responded : ‘ Though I find this kind of boorishness both repulsive and depressing I am bound to state that the solitary heckler was probably articulating a mood felt by many . |
| 20 | ‘ He 's a roofer , if it 's the person I 'm thinking of — he was probably inspecting the roof . |
| 21 | A police spokesman said : ‘ The gunman was probably trying to strike Mr Mascaro and hit his wife instead . |
| 22 | I think he was probably trying to prove something to someone , or , perhaps , to himself . " |
| 23 | Patterson was probably trying too hard and come unstuck , while Coates , who finished in ninth place , was the victim of engine trouble . |
| 24 | The restructuring school answered that you could not do that anyway , because the importance of a variable precisely depended on the wider context in which it was operating , but the most important contextual reason was probably manufacturing industry 's need to cut costs in face of newly increasing competition . |
| 25 | I realized as I turned its pages that this was probably telling me more about the country and its people than my actual visit . |
| 26 | She must just have got off , and she was probably watching me from somewhere high above the distant sea . |
| 27 | The car slid away from the kerb , followed by a small blue roadster , and I thought with some regret that I was probably watching Mrs. Barbara Porter driving out of my life . |
| 28 | I think I was probably watching too much Sesame Street as well . |
| 29 | He was probably meeting some woman tonight , and obviously taking her somewhere glamorous . |
| 30 | I have just discovered that Gaveston was probably poisoning the Lady Eleanor with a slow but subtle potion . ’ |