Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lizzie had bought the kind of steak he liked and now he was cooking it the way he wanted . |
| 2 | I just wan na find out who was writing them the letters and then I can finish . |
| 3 | Hitler no longer seemed to be speaking to convince ; rather , he seemed to feel that he was expressing what the audience , by now transformed into a single mass , expected of him . |
| 4 | After my fourth or fifth lesson I was able to see that it was I who was causing myself the discomfort . |
| 5 | And again perhaps to follow up a previous question and the question is this , that in the first draft of the statement of faith which was presented two years ago , there was a very clear statement which said that Christ died for our sin in connection with the cross and I was wondering what the reasoning was which took away that very specific meaning of the death of the Christ into a much more general and ambiguous one in the statement before us today . |
| 6 | This paradox remained until early 1974 , when I was investigating what the behavior of matter in the vicinity of a black hole would be according to quantum mechanics . |
| 7 | He gave the Clerk of the Court his name and that of the person he was suing whom the clerk called the defendant . |
| 8 | ‘ Who was selling her the stuff , this same man ? ’ |
| 9 | She was tellin' me the ovver day she wants Fred ter try an' get that empty 'ouse next door ter make the place bigger . |
| 10 | His narrow victory at Mosport over Regazzoni put the two men equal on points with one race to go at Watkins glen , with Scheckter still in with an outside chance , and when Rega retired , Emerson settled in behind Reutemann , Pace and Hunt for the fourth place which was to give him the championship . |
| 11 | If she wanted Lori gone then the quickest way was to give her the coffee she 'd asked for . |
| 12 | Not to know her , not to love her ( at the very least , not to want to love her ) was to deny oneself the totality of experience . |
| 13 | ‘ They 're likely to charge him over the weekend , so Gerry was tipping me the wink there 's no story for us . |
| 14 | He was doing what the saint willed . ’ |
| 15 | Her defence , that in providing for the poor she was doing what the HUD was supposed to do , earned her the nickname " Robin HUD " . |
| 16 | Everyone was closing their the theatres , but the independents and smaller circuits closed proportionally more , thus shifting the proportion of the box office take in favour of the conglomerates which owned the larger and more salubrious houses . |
| 17 | Bobbie looked surprised , because just for a moment she thought Peter was giving her the engine . |
| 18 | And with that sarcastic tone she had always disliked he said he was giving her the answers : he ha.i acquired a duplicate set of keys to help in his research for Eliot . |
| 19 | Swinging himself into the saddle , Guy turned Chalon 's head towards Winchester and began to consider the various means whereby he could ensure that Isabel belonged to him while he was giving her the time she needed . |
| 20 | The navigator was giving me the countdown ; as soon as the needles on the oil-temperature gauge started moving I would be off , making sure I took-off on time as this would be vital for the rest of the squadron . |
| 21 | Again she was giving him the opportunity to ask her to lengthen the period — or to indicate in some way that he had no wish for her to leave . |
| 22 | Hoping against hope that she was giving him the come-on at last , he readily accepted . |
| 23 | Desperate Ricky should n't think she was giving him the come-on , she had the door open before the car stopped . |
| 24 | Erm the , the other thing I noticed was that there is very little or no eye contact at all with Martin so you , you were never really looking at him when you were asking questions or when he was giving you the answers back , so there was no er visual acknowledgement whenever he was , he was coming back to you . |
| 25 | I told him I knew Marc was going to listen to him , would help him , that all he had to do was tell him the truth . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ All I did was tell him the truth . ’ |
| 27 | Perhaps the most useful thing she did was to teach me the language , so that in a few days I could speak it quite well . |
| 28 | The idea was to teach us the beauty of the English language . |
| 29 | Her father was reading her the story , a long time ago . |
| 30 | Truman once said he was asked what the job of the presidency involved and Truman once said I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them . |