Example sentences of "and was [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The meeting at the Presbytery after Benediction had dragged on far too long , but he had caught his bus , and was congratulating himself on being out of the rain , when the conductor had bawled |
| 2 | Bigwig had raised his head and was supporting himself on his fore-paws alone . |
| 3 | General Francis had risen from his chair by the examination couch and was supporting himself with his sticks . |
| 4 | For a time the eagles were speechless with surprise at what had happened and could only stare through the Cages to Woil who had now taken stance again on the branch where he had originally been and was grooming himself as if nothing had happened . |
| 5 | He 'd put some more money in the meter and was warming himself by the newly-lit fire . |
| 6 | The fourth man had abandoned their horses to his wounded companion and was launching himself into the fray . |
| 7 | Eisenhower , who was in the midst of his re-election campaign and was presenting himself to the American electorate as ‘ a man of peace ’ , failed to make clear to his British and French colleagues in the Atlantic Alliance the depth of his reluctance to countenance the use of force over an issue that was only important and not vital to US interests . |