Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] thus [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1	I was thus occupied by precisely the same ambition which had driven Vasco Núñez four and a half centuries before .
2	It was impossible she should be unaware of the treat she was thus providing for the soldiery , many of whom expressed their appreciation in appropriately ribald terms .
3	Mothers of Welsh infants of similar age were then recruited from the same areas of the city ; they were thus living in similar accommodation and served by the same health professionals .
4	( They were thus represented in Maynard Keynes ' Economic Consequences of the Peace , which Pound had read by 1920 . )
5	They were thus known by the name of ‘ enabling schemes ’ .
6	My recollection was that the detective story was one of E. Phillips Oppenheim 's , and that it concerned a horrific murder whereby the victim was , so to speak , liquefied and poured down the sink , so that the ‘ essence ’ of him was thus disposed of .
7	The ability of the electoral system to produce a government in the way previously expected of it was thus called into question .
8	The limpness of the body as it was thus laid in place was pitiful .
9	It was thus held to be as authentic an image of the society within which it was produced as the gift , whose authenticity was premised upon its own totalizing ability .
10	He was thus dismissed by the England camp as a complete lunatic whose criminal slogging should not be allowed to sully finer sensibilities .
11	Whatever the reason , the Regent was no less determined to try to capture Balliol while he was thus detached from his main force .
12	It was while he was thus engaged in the Plaza of Broken Moons that disaster struck .
13	His deification as the patron of craftsmen , but more importantly as a god of wisdom , medicine and healing , had occurred by the Late Period and he was thus identified by the Greeks with their god of medicine , Asclepios .

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