Example sentences of "was [adj] [prep] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Choukier also claims Kim said she was pregnant with Knorr 's child . |
| 2 | I was proud of my achievement — I had managed something that my mistress had not — I was pregnant with Abraham 's heir , and Sarah started to hate me for it . |
| 3 | ar when I was pregnant with Ricky an all the rest of it and called her Anna Marie , after mum |
| 4 | Hoomey , accustomed to avoiding Bones 's enormous feet and keeping his hands away from the ever-questing lips , like two grey motor-tyres devouring anything remotely edible , was enchanted with Parky 's dainty obedience . |
| 5 | The Princesse was enchanted with Sylvie 's daughter . |
| 6 | I was due on Keith 's seventeenth birthday . |
| 7 | I imagine that Eliot 's early admiration , if that was not too strong a word , was due to Berdyaev 's excellent little book on the Russian Revolution ; a movement of which four years ' personal experience was enough to dispel early hopes . |
| 8 | Whether this was due to Wilko 's tactics I do nt know , but noone ever looked to get behind their defence … noone was making darting runs across and behind . |
| 9 | Folly was n't sure if her growing feeling of euphoria was due to Luke 's excitement about the Rose Bowl 's possibilities — or the commitment to the future of their relationship that his willingness to help her implied . |
| 10 | Some suggested the progress was due to sterling 's recent weakness . |
| 11 | The difficulties encountered in treating vasculitic ulcers were referred to by four nurses , and of the ‘ steroid skin ’ by a further two , while two recognised their failure to heal ulcers was due to patients ' unstable diabetes , and one called for a clinical specialist with specific knowledge of leg ulcers to advise on difficult cases . |
| 12 | The Italians had brought with them a battalion of tanks , a company of armoured cars and another of motorized machine guns , all designed for the kind of fast-moving warfare that Mussolini wanted to see in Spain and which was inimical to Franco 's preferred modus operandi . |
| 13 | Beth had been surprised to know that Cissie herself had been thinking along those very same lines , and it only told her that she was right about Maisie 's children — they were growing up fast . |
| 14 | 's was right behind Camel 's . |
| 15 | The wine was sticky on Rab 's fingers , tackety stuff : but it wormed a treat his head . |
| 16 | The sweet drink was sticky in Elizabeth 's mouth . |
| 17 | A 22-year-old nightclub dancer had alleged she was gang-raped by Hell 's Angel Stephen Townsend , 34 , and his friends . |
| 18 | Even though he was dissatisfied with Aristotle 's teachings , Gassendi was required , as professor of philosophy , to expound them to his students , just as his own professors had expounded them to him . |
| 19 | For those within ‘ the Movement ’ , a week 's cycling holiday using CTC accommodation was possible for £3 10/ all in ; organized excursions took in the Scottish Isles , the West of Ireland , and the Black Forest in Germany . |
| 20 | Butcher was outstanding in Sunderland 's defence , despite being troubled by a long-standing knee injury . |
| 21 | ‘ No , he was asleep on Mum 's bed . ’ |
| 22 | I was upset about Sheila 's illness , upset and angry . |
| 23 | Dana was n't the easiest flatmate on record , and now that she was upset by Roman 's refusal to take her with him she would be impossible . |
| 24 | It was rife in Saturday 's crowd . |
| 25 | The liner went in with no hassle at all , and I was grateful for Absat 's superior flexibility when the hose went on and I went into the rapidly filling hole to smooth out the creases . |
| 26 | There was as much chance of that as flying to the moon but Wilson was grateful for Pen 's long memory . |
| 27 | Loretta was grateful for Bridget 's assumption that she would have a part in whatever action they decided upon ; she was a more reliable friend than Tracey , she thought to herself . |
| 28 | For the first time she was grateful for Matilda 's notorious temper , which made it impossible for the Empress to keep her voice down . |
| 29 | He was dismissive of Melinda 's Arabic , and insisted on speaking to us in English which he declared a simple language , like the . |
| 30 | Ella was doubtful of Luke 's urgency . |