Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was using it a week later when Nathan walked in through the kitchen door . |
| 2 | Their successful defence , apart from moving their headquarters to a New Jersey hotel protected by a gang and three cannons , was to issue themselves a mountain of new shares ( which was illegal , but they bribed the judges ) . |
| 3 | Here the Bey of Tunis was building himself a superb mausoleum . |
| 4 | Workhouse building , despite the permitting of parishes to combine for the purpose in 1723 , was until 1750 largely an urban phenomenon , for in the countryside out-relief was proving itself a more flexible and still not frighteningly expensive option . |
| 5 | Arthur Ibbetson , the English cameraman who worked with him on several occasions , first notes how alarmed he was to discover what a bad skin Richard had and then enthuses without pause about the shape of his face , his professionalism , his patience . |
| 6 | Furthermore , he was keeping it a secret until the day he moved out . |
| 7 | It even took us into Cambridge a few times , but that was pushing it a bit — and once or twice we really had to . |
| 8 | The second time was pushing it a bit . ’ |
| 9 | on the way back it was pushing it a bit . |
| 10 | That place was costing me a fortune . |
| 11 | This was costing him a small fortune . |
| 12 | The Oil War was costing us a billion dollars a day , and we already had more than four hundred and twenty-five thousand men in Saudi Arabia . |
| 13 | However one piece of equipment was causing him a problem — a ‘ survival bag ’ . |
| 14 | Hugh , who had worn the uniform of a verderer for less than a twelvemonth , was no use to them as a guide and as the day grew on it became evident that his arm was causing him a great deal of pain . |
| 15 | Sien was causing him a great deal of worry as the year wore on . |
| 16 | But what they did to me was give me a metronome and a theme which you play in quicker and quicker note values : triplets , eighths , sixteenths , and so on . |
| 17 | When Julie Mills moved into her new home she thought all she 'd need to do to the kitchen was give it a lick of paint . |
| 18 | Whether it was give it a better flavour or no , I do n't know but we never used the saltpetre . |
| 19 | ‘ Does remembering how awed I was give you a thrill ? |
| 20 | Just over five minutes later she had taken the tablet and Felipe was pouring her a cup of tea , and Maggie looked at him in amusement . |
| 21 | He was pouring himself a brandy . |
| 22 | Soon she was pouring herself a glass of whisky for breakfast , instead of a cup of tea . |
| 23 | It was only a wolf-whistle — he was paying me a compliment . |
| 24 | Cos I 'd lost about half a stone in weight , and I was cut down on chocolate biscuits , and I , what I 'd been doing I was was at my tea , at five o'clock , I was eating another at ten o'clock , I reckon I was overdoing it a bit you know with the I was trying to cut down a lot |
| 25 | So the retching was worrying me a bit . |
| 26 | Mat. , she had managed to give the impression authority was granting me a great favour . |
| 27 | But anyway I gave , it 's fifty P I gave the lass who was selling it a pound you see and she said here you are waiting to give me my change , I said no , no and she said and I said to her I said you know you need it more than I do and she she got tears in her eyes and I I thought I mean I I do n't know if I can articulate this properly . |
| 28 | There used to be a cafe , a cute ; the er you used to go in and have a cup of tea and that and yo , he started selling jam , pots of jam with they had him in court , it was er it had fell off a lorry and he was selling it a bit cheap and er he were telling us about it . |
| 29 | ‘ The decision was to give them a lot of freedom , letting them take the pictures they liked so long as their interpretations were true to the general concept . |
| 30 | The object was to give them a sense of purpose and once they were harnessed to that proposition , they policed themselves , so to speak . |