Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was accusing you of being a saboteur … ’ |
| 2 | He was proving himself to be not only an accurate witness to the times , but a respected one , too . |
| 3 | Britain was proving itself to be better than the ungovernable ‘ banana republic ’ of hostile critics in 1975–6 , but still an ailing ex-imperial giant lacking focus and perhaps even faith . |
| 4 | ‘ Many felt he was allowing himself to be misrepresented . ’ |
| 5 | It was on the tip of Jehan 's tongue to suggest that Alexei was allowing himself to be used only because it suited him ; but it was clear that discussing the subject was making Jehana unhappy , and so he said nothing , sitting quietly beside her until suddenly she got up and went into the house . |
| 6 | As far as the programme itself was concerned , she felt it was a ‘ classic example of the way in which the BBC , with its penchant for ‘ South Bank ’ religion was allowing itself to be used as a launching platform for the ‘ new morality ’ ’ . |
| 7 | He stated that ‘ it ought to be inferred that … one of the purposes of the advertisement was to enable it to be used by smokers as ammunition to persuade others that their habit was not dangerous to the health of anyone except perhaps their own . ’ |
| 8 | This would take some courage but something inside her was urging her to be honest . |
| 9 | As late as the summer of 1939 Sir Stafford Cripps , expelled from the Labour Party and hardly a natural Baldwin man , was urging him to be a brick in a wall of anti-appeasement national unity . |
| 10 | The best she could manage was to imagine him to be a person who had known Ewan well . |
| 11 | There was an added difficulty that the three of then , would break into convulsions of laughter , verging on hysterics , with Hopper somewhere off camera rolling around in the bushes and , according to Nicholson , ‘ totally freaked out ’ while Jack was forcing himself to be relatively straight , do his serious acting and hold the whole thing together : ‘ This used to be a helluva good country … ’ |
| 12 | He was forcing her to be careful of what she said ; setting up areas which were not to be talked about . |
| 13 | ‘ I was expecting it to be bad , but nothing prepared me for this ! ’ |
| 14 | If the world was a bathtub , the progress of the Ship through it would be like the soap , shooting backwards and forwards and never being where anyone was expecting it to be . |
| 15 | Well I was expecting th Well I was expecting it to be the church hall you see . |
| 16 | The important thing in this case was to reward him for being good rather than punish him for being naughty — if you scold or hit a young horse for not standing still you will only make matters worse . |
| 17 | He was asking her to be his mistress . |
| 18 | ‘ I was asking you to be whatever you wished to be , cara . ’ |
| 19 | But the mistake that Holberg made was to allow himself to be held in thrall by the world of appearances . |
| 20 | Magellan captured a number of these immense people — one pair by the crud trick of showing them leg-irons and insisting that the proper way to carry them was to allow them to be locked around their ankles . |
| 21 | This was to allow it to be produced by 7th December and to be able to discuss any changes needed in any individual contributions . |
| 22 | 381 , 384 ‘ There is no doubt that at common law if a wife chooses wilfully and without justification to live away from her husband she can not , so long as she continues absent , render him liable for the necessaries supplied to her , or for her maintenance by the union , for the reason that she has of her own free will deprived herself of the opportunity which the husband was affording her of being maintained in the home . |
| 23 | In short , ‘ marriage ’ with England was showing itself to be a severely limiting factor when other courtships were envisaged . |
| 24 | I was promising myself to be very quiet , whatever it would be . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | And so the relevance of that to what Andrea was telling us about is what ? |
| 27 | This would mean that Christ was declaring himself to be a thief , for in Zanaki land thieves generally make it a practice to knock on the door of a hut which they hope to burglarise , and if they hear any movement inside , they dash off into the dark . |