Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ilse wore no bra , and was twirling her panties around her head in no time . |
| 2 | Despite official claims to the contrary it was widely believed that China was maintaining its supplies to the Khmers Rouges and considerable stockpiles of arms were thought to have been accumulated . |
| 3 | It was seeing his glasses that tore me apart . |
| 4 | For the lady — accompanied by red admirals , peacocks and common blues — was fluttering her wings in the new butterfly centre . |
| 5 | The Public Prosecution Office was completing its investigations . |
| 6 | The shock news came as Roker manager Malcolm Crosby was completing his preparations for tonight 's visit of Second Dvision leaders Ipswich Town the first of four crucial games in seven days . |
| 7 | While Balcon was encouraging his writers to come up with original stories , and steadily reducing the company 's reliance on the theatre , BIP remained largely stagebound . |
| 8 | It was using what assets it had to keep the group afloat . |
| 9 | Yanto was using his fingers to gather the fine silky material . |
| 10 | Ellwood had ordered lamb cutlets , French beans and button mushrooms ; he was using his fingers to eat . |
| 11 | It was only because he was using his elbows all the time . |
| 12 | Procles was using his wits in the sort of intellectual games — rationalistic interpretations of myths , comparisons of popular military leaders — which appealed to the Greek and Roman public . |
| 13 | I slept badly and had a dream that was to confirm my fears about the ghost . |
| 14 | I decided to work with the market women 's organization , ASUTRAMES , because my mother had a market stall and I would help her , and because the community had taught me how important it was to claim our rights . |
| 15 | But even as Elizabeth Mowbray was finalising her plans for departure , Fate intervened . |
| 16 | We approached the east landing cautiously and the cliffs awoke with bird clamour which was to assail our ears until we left . |
| 17 | The rebel was sharpening his teeth ! |
| 18 | If he was given them tokens or something like that , it would of been alright , but I , I , I a couple of weeks ago |
| 19 | Every one of those men who went in the forces , who lived to tell the tale , was given their jobs back when they came back , because their jobs were replaced by women during the war , drivers and conductors , they were replaced by women and as the men came back , so the women were paid off , so everybody who came back from the war was given their job back . |
| 20 | The intention was to see what sorts of problems seemed to be occurring and then to create automatic procedures , where possible , for gathering further information . |
| 21 | I was to see her years later , and talk much of Eliot , they were fellow-citizens of St Louis , Missouri , and almost of the same age . |
| 22 | McCarthy was inventing his traitors . |
| 23 | Mrs Allen was taught which foods contained protein and vitamins and encouraged to have some form of protein with each meal , as well as fruit and vegetables , at least once daily . |
| 24 | Vass was gathering their bags from the car boot and leading Lisa and a wide-eyed Emily across a courtyard to the front door of the house . |
| 25 | His personal secretary , Chang Shih-sen , was gathering his papers together , softly humming to himself . |
| 26 | In September 1692 he produced a Whiggish Jacobite tract in which he rehearsed all the traditional charges against William ( adding to the list the recent massacre at Glencoe ) , and argued that " If it was to preserve our Liberties from the insults of King James , we placed the Prince upon the Throne , we have certainly either mistaken the Disease or the Cure " . |
| 27 | He sounded half asleep and an approaching truck was flashing its lights . |
| 28 | Nearby , Garvey was fastening his boots and Adam of Rochester and Jack of Longleigh were feeding the horses . |
| 29 | Already , Jay 's Hollywood imagination was building her beds of rose-petals under crystal minarets . |
| 30 | TOXTETH kick boxer Alfie Lewis was nursing his bruises back in Liverpool today after winning his transAtlantic challenge match against the previously undefeated world heavyweight champion Steve ‘ Nasty ’ Anderson of the United States . |