Example sentences of "was [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he was no stranger to the town , now that he was on a case he was seeing it with new eyes . |
| 2 | She was seeing it from Sabine Jourdain 's point of view : a young foreigner pursuing her and intending to latch on to her . |
| 3 | Also , this nomadic existence was bringing them into potential conflict with several different tax jurisdictions . |
| 4 | Curtis , meanwhile , as the result of his meditations on how a federated empire might collectively discharge its duty to the backward races under British rule , had begun to reach the conclusion that the answer was to train them for eventual self-government . |
| 5 | She was pressing it for dear life now as if she was in a panic , and she kept her finger on it until , through the glass door , she saw the flicker of a candle weaving its way down through the shop . |
| 6 | Van Der Meulen 's austere but charming character was to stand him in good stead with the Saudis . |
| 7 | Edward had not yet covered himself with military glory , but he had revealed a sureness of political judgement which was to stand him in good stead in the greater military endeavours that he embarked upon in 1337 . |
| 8 | Charles V , showing that good judgement of men which was to stand him in good stead throughout his reign , chose Bertrand du Guesclin to command his forces , and du Guesclin defeated Navarre at the battle of Cocherel in May 1364 . |
| 9 | It had done him no good , but the same quality was to stand him in good stead when he turned away from international relations to the many domestic difficulties which the war had engendered or highlighted . |
| 10 | Watching Maureen feed very small birds who were unable to do it for themselves was to stand me in good stead later , when I began breeding barn owls . |
| 11 | Mutinously she flicked her gaze back to where he was surveying her in stony silence . |
| 12 | Before banks or even locks and keys were invented , the usual way of protecting valuable objects and money was to hide them from other people . |
| 13 | Her lungs heaving , she fell against a tree , then slowly slid down the trunk to sit at its foot , her arms wrapped tight round her updrawn knees in an effort to hold in the pain and shock that was robbing her of coherent thought . |
| 14 | Guy Sterne was eyeing her with amused curiosity . |
| 15 | However Germany was short of helium and the major industrial producer — the USA , who was extracting it from natural gas — did n't want to supply it so soon after the war . |
| 16 | The subsequent chronology of the licences , as well as the varying charges for them , reveal that the king was granting them for political and financial ends , to make friends and raise cash , particularly from the late 1290s when he desperately needed both . |
| 17 | As he spoke , he had already turned abruptly on his heel and was leading her in swift strides across the wide hallway . |
| 18 | and the doctors was selling them to rich Romanians and things like that so there 's such a lot of corruption in the country . |
| 19 | He was kissing her with small caresses of his mouth , teasing her cheeks and nose , tempting her brows and the corners of her mouth , so that her breath grew shallow and her body leaned against his solid frame for support . |
| 20 | She was calling me from central London , having travelled there with her young son on the underground train . |
| 21 | She decided there was only one cure , and that was to do it for real . |
| 22 | ‘ Our trick was to put them in different situations . |
| 23 | The idea was to use her for short patrols inshore and around the large estuaries and harbours of the south Coast . |
| 24 | The thing was to keep her as Brown Owl of the 2nd Longreen Pack . |
| 25 | Mr Clarke told the Commons he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 26 | Mr Clarke told the Commons he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 27 | Mr Clarke told the House of Commons that he was doing it with great reluctance . |
| 28 | The aim was to transform them into permanent subsistence farmers or labourers . |
| 29 | All this training was to hold them in good stead for the war to come , when the older members were to form the backbone of a very efficient Fire Brigade . |
| 30 | She was regarding them with wide , dark eyes , full of uncertainty . |