Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was impressing herself with her ability to inject a casual calm into her voice , to compose her features in the darkness of the car . |
| 2 | I could see he was bracing himself for his act . |
| 3 | Leaving Alexandra at her door , unkissed , untouched , was one of the hardest things he had ever done , especially when what he had really wanted to do was to carry her into her bedroom — or his — and make love to her . |
| 4 | A shower unit caught fire while a woman was using it at her home in Weston Crescent , Norton . |
| 5 | Anyway , I was using it behind his back . |
| 6 | Gradually she came to realize that it was reminding her of her father — her father and the allotment . |
| 7 | Francis Carco , who was a friend who had bought Modigliani 's work before the crowd , also bought Modigliani 's paintings , but he was given them for what he himself described as a ridiculously cheap price . |
| 8 | So , she starts quizzing me and I start nattering on about the bloody Brontes — I think Mrs Fleming must 've been really intelligent when she was young , honest-to-god she was firing them at me faster than Bamber Gascoigne , she says to me : ‘ And tell me , Karen , how are you going to deal with the themes of Repressed Sexuality in the Brontes ' work ? ’ |
| 9 | that was taught me by my grandmother , Annie Scanlon . |
| 10 | Suddenly , he was gathering her against him , as though he would lift her up into his arms and carry her off . |
| 11 | The Fat Controller was helping me to my feet . |
| 12 | These , too , had been fated , Wexford 's broken by a pretty young woman who was helping him with his enquiries and Burden 's one day inadvertently put out with the rubbish . |
| 13 | Well union , you know the union in the coal mines and all different well er everywhere in the North Wales here to , postmen , well every union was helping us with them . |
| 14 | Once again he sounded as if he was accusing her of something . |
| 15 | All at once , in one quick movement , he 'd taken hold of her hand and , rising to his feet , was drawing her with him . |
| 16 | He was drawing her into them . |
| 17 | And suddenly , instead of turning her away from him — he was drawing her towards him . |
| 18 | It was a song Mr Malik sang , and she was singing it to what must , surely , be his words . |
| 19 | Twenty years later , Charles reminded an assembly of how " a part of the realm was assigned me by my lord and father … and in it the metropolitan see of Sens then lacked a pastor . |
| 20 | To Sophie , the atmosphere of the zoo was absorbing , but what pleased her most was the way in which Robert was including her in what he had to do . |
| 21 | If Madeleine was enjoying herself with her ‘ Pogo ’ , he could enjoy himself with Cora-Beth , who probably cared about him far more than Madeleine ever had . |
| 22 | She told Cathy she would pass on the eggs but would like croissants and coffee , and presently I was bringing them to her as she sat with eyes demurely downwards , studiously ignoring my existence . |
| 23 | ‘ That 's only natural , ’ Harvey said , wondering why he was bringing her into it . |
| 24 | She frequently made use of Coptic craftsmen and one of them , a leather-worker , who had been repairing a handbag she was particularly fond of , was bringing it to her flat with his small son when he was attacked by a gang of youths . |
| 25 | As he was bringing it to his ear , he remembered that he was in his own apartment , alone . |
| 26 | Ironically , my immediate reaction to the outbreak of war was to fling myself in my imagination into the Royal Ascot of all demos , Vietnam . |
| 27 | Guido was seating himself opposite her again . |
| 28 | ‘ She was representing him for his life . ’ |
| 29 | He realized that a robot was stripping him of his armour and removing all detectable weapons . |
| 30 | So all he could do , poor bastard , was celebrate it with me . |