Example sentences of "was [verb] [indef pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | One of the worst things that could happen to a pupil was to leave something in the dining room by mistake after dinner . |
| 3 | I walked in there and I can se he had a he had a er some copies and and er he was getting one in the bloody phone ! |
| 4 | Mrs Maugham would often abuse this garden and the widower 's laziness , with a self-righteous , alarming complacency , saying that it was a scandal and a disgrace , and that it ought not to be allowed : and when one day Clara , exasperated , as she sometimes rashly was , out of her usual silence , asked her what harm it was doing anybody , Mrs Maugham had snapped triumphantly that it was harming everybody in the street , because it helped the weeds to spread . |
| 5 | However , one afternoon perhaps two weeks after our conversation in my pantry , I was doing something in the library when Miss Kenton came in and said : |
| 6 | He jumped out of the van and pulled off a sack that was hiding something in the back of the truck . |
| 7 | Ramsey expected that once the resolution was taken everything in the mind would be peace after doubt . |
| 8 | He was waving something in the air and laughing . |