Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was as embarrassing to see a friend under the influence of adrenalin when one had not lost one 's own temper as it was to see him under the influence of alcohol when one was sober . |
| 32 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 33 | She opened her mouth to suggest that perhaps she could give him dinner at her hotel — and thereby eliminate any possibility of him putting his arm around her in his car — then found that she was suggesting nothing of the sort , but was asking , ‘ Did Mr Gajdusek ask you to invite me out ? ’ and was at once appalled that , Ven all too clearly not far away in her head , she had asked such a thing ! |
| 34 | Ten miles away on that December evening , Walter Schellenberg lit a cigarette in the back of the Mercedes which was speeding him towards the castle . |
| 35 | She was helping me with the french . |
| 36 | I was helping him across a busy six-lane road in north London . |
| 37 | ‘ Christopher , ’ said Francis to Jane , who was helping him with the sheep the next morning , ‘ has been like a father to me . ’ |
| 38 | And then the music was drawing him into the fire and the light , and he could see the massive shape of the Chariot limned against the forest now , bathed in its own radiance , hung with silk , lined with satin … |
| 39 | To flash a badge was to risk someone in the crowd remembering his face and in the future , on another job , he could fingered as the stoolie he truly was . |
| 40 | Miranda felt a melting and tickling inside her stomach as if someone was stroking it with a feather . |
| 41 | We undressed and walked right through the shiny white-tiled shower room where a woman attendant was scrubbing someone with a loofah . |
| 42 | This was to drive something of a wedge between him and Lloyd George and other former Welsh allies . |
| 43 | All she wanted to do now was get out of here because it was pretty obvious that this woman had known Felipe when he was enjoying himself on the coast and there was definitely something between them . |
| 44 | Warden was enjoying himself in the background : it was a new experience to see someone else tackling Buchanan rather than the other way round . |
| 45 | Eventually she noticed the changing note of the engine as they began to descend , and soon Marc was bringing them to a more sedate pace as he nursed the car over the drawbridge . |
| 46 | She was pursuing him like the Fury pursuing the crime . |
| 47 | And when at last she fell asleep it was to find herself in the château , running endlessly through a labyrinth of rooms , searching for something that was always just beyond her reach . |
| 48 | If so , it would be wrong that the council , because it has performed its statutory duty under the national law to enforce section 47 , was to find itself under a liability in damages as a result of performing that duty . |
| 49 | My sister 's job was to meet her at the bus stop with the wheel basket so she did n't have to carry it up the road . |
| 50 | One client referred for counselling eventually admitted that she was starving herself as a way of preventing conception ; she did not want another child , but her husband had pressurised her to become pregnant . |
| 51 | Mind you , she was starving herself to the point of endangering her life and had to be hospitalized , but er oh no , her hormon her hormon well her hormonal changes went into reverse , they absolutely did . |
| 52 | Flowers looked at fault , but the happy Town fans chanted ‘ Goddard for England ’ while the band was serenading them during the interval . |
| 53 | However : What Mr Taylor [ for the council ] said … was … that the common assumption which lay behind the agreement was that the council was the owner of the … land and that Mr Tillson had no interest in either parcel of land beyond the tenancy which the council was to grant him by the transaction . |
| 54 | Hunt was acquiring something of a bad reputation : both for being accident-prone and for being excessively forthright . |
| 55 | It was her firm belief that the quickest way to achieve mental health was to absorb oneself in the problems of others and , in this particular centre , it seemed to have worked . |
| 56 | The fourth man had abandoned their horses to his wounded companion and was launching himself into the fray . |
| 57 | Surely he must have realised that he was pitting himself against a concern of considerable strength . |
| 58 | Ginny could only suppose that Ralph thought he was protecting her from a possible nuisance . |
| 59 | As they returned to Swinbrook on Grye , the gipsy horse , the trees of Wychwood closed in about them and Carrie imagined the sadly diminished yet still proud forest was protecting them from the rest of the world . |
| 60 | Work was carried our on a car park , enabling a gentler gradient for the athletes . |