Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Using a pilot device , police recorded his speed as 99.04 miles per hour and when he was stopped he replied : ‘ I 'm in a hurry , my girlfriend is pregnant ’ , ’ said Mr Fenn . |
| 2 | ‘ As I finished selecting these 200-odd titles which reflect the continuing excellence of writing for children , a document was leaked which made it clear that the authorities which are controlling the education of the next generation had , at a stroke , obliterated the ‘ golden age ’ of children 's literature — at least as far as reading in schools is concerned . |
| 3 | It was obvious that someone had robbed the company of a great deal of money and Craig was trusting her to find out who . |
| 4 | Her worst fright on one of these ventures was seeing what appeared to be fluorescent fish on a single stick . |
| 5 | she would , she was seeing me do it and I respect what she says and I do what I 'm told no she did n't say that |
| 6 | That 's not a criticism of the project as such , it 's just that the sort of service that was intended which included the conversion of a building , did not check out that a building was available — there was no building . |
| 7 | Now Donald was bracing himself to take the weight of the heavier outer door and Donald McLaggan was helping him , easing it up off its hinges . |
| 8 | I suppose that was to fool anyone watching us from the river bank . |
| 9 | To return again to the earlier period , however , one finds that once the was enrolled he waited his turn until a post fell vacant . |
| 10 | The design was complicated , with a serpentine pattern of dark blue and white with touches of black , and whoever was knitting it had completed only a few inches of ribbed welt . |
| 11 | Here in the 1844 the Wellington Monument was erected which tells the story of the acorns . |
| 12 | While Jane the orphan was resting she started courting a Manchester boy . |
| 13 | When government cash was withdrawn they applied to several charitable foundations for funding . |
| 14 | He looked as if he was encouraging her to say yes and then he could forgive her in a lofty sort of manner , and it annoyed Jenna instantly , partly driving away her unexpected awe of him . |
| 15 | ‘ As you all know , ’ she said , ‘ ever since the Pack was formed we 've held our meetings in this fine old barn , which Farmer Maynard has let us have for our own use . |
| 16 | So after both of these elections a government was formed which had less electoral support than the opposition . |
| 17 | After these discussions it was decided to drop the Wolf e Tone Societies tag , and an ad hoc body was formed which organised a seminar on civil rights on 25 November 1966 in Belfast . |
| 18 | a rival trade union was formed which drew much more heavily on the lower social strata in the labour force and on the Moscow railway workshops and other industrial centres . |
| 19 | They 'd , they had to because there were , they got , when , after the union was formed you know , they were having the rights er but and I think really the hours they put in and the type of work they deserved it , but erm there was a time you know when the bosses were bossy sort of thing , and er and you adhered to that , because you did n't know anything different until erm the unions started up , but erm I know there were one or two processions you know and peer rights and all this that and the other , but erm on the whole it 's er it 's been an eventful life in , in some ways , very eventful and it 's been interesting . |
| 20 | In the two years since it was formed it has attracted $6m in venture capital and another $4m from big-name strategic partners , on the promise that the application development environment it 's designing would be a significant enough advance to turn the company into a nine-digit revenue producer . |
| 21 | Ever since the Peace People organisation was formed it has run a number of services which still continue today . |
| 22 | When the Canadian National was formed it inherited no fewer than a thousand stations west of Lake Superior . |
| 23 | When the NRA was formed it inherited 12 fixed-site water-quality monitoring stations that would have been prohibitively expensive to modernise . |
| 24 | I 've be I was using what do you call it ? tablet but I 'd something . |
| 25 | He was using her to advance himself somehow , for the sake of his family , and he intended to bind her to him before the party , so that he could demand her total loyalty . |
| 26 | I think Chris was using her to get himself accepted into the organisation , whatever it was . ’ |
| 27 | Creggan held his breath for he knew that though she was speaking of him as if he was not there really it was she who had become something else and that some power was using her to speak to him directly . |
| 28 | But now he was using it to draw out their other piece of essential winter equipment . |
| 29 | The hindmost attendant was holding what looked like a large loaf of bread , and was using it to hit the minion in front , which was running almost doubled up , its little gloved hands held over its head , where the pursuing scullion was raining blows with the loaf . |
| 30 | At first I thought he was using it to wave at people , but then he bundled it up and threw it at a police car . |