Example sentences of "was [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | She trusted him , for her own part , without reserve or doubt ; but she was trusting him for those who crossed the river and took the risks . |
2 | Len was thumping him on the arm now with his fist . |
3 | If she had neutered the quick of mystery in platitude before , she was smothering it with symbols now . |
4 | The boyish expression transformed the hard planes of his face and she stared at him as if she was seeing him for the first time . |
5 | Since then , I had managed to film them on their wintering grounds in India , but now I was seeing them for the first time at the other end of the journey . |
6 | She felt as though she was seeing them from under a great weight . |
7 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
8 | I suppose it was seeing me in ‘ his ’ shirt . |
9 | I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on . |
10 | I asked the doctor who was seeing me in the hospital antenatal clinic whether or not I should stop taking the drug and he said it was OK and that I should just carry on . |
11 | Although he was no stranger to the town , now that he was on a case he was seeing it with new eyes . |
12 | She was seeing it from Sabine Jourdain 's point of view : a young foreigner pursuing her and intending to latch on to her . |
13 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
14 | Does it really matter that those were early days , when the joke on campus was that the only way to kill anyone with a laser was to hit them over the head with it ? |
15 | When , in the summer of 1983 , she went to England for a few weeks , she took a French companion whose role was to instruct her during every spare moment . |
16 | Before caution could restrain the impulse , he placed his hand over hers where she was resting it on the low wall in front of them . |
17 | One way of showing them respect was to enclose them in reliquaries and enrich these with precious substances . |
18 | Leaving Alexandra at her door , unkissed , untouched , was one of the hardest things he had ever done , especially when what he had really wanted to do was to carry her into her bedroom — or his — and make love to her . |
19 | I had no idea she was using me for a purpose of her own : I was too naive to realise until it dawned on me what it was , a few weeks later . |
20 | The order was for the production of material relating to the purchase by a client , Mrs G , of certain real property , the allegation being that she was a member of the family of another person who was suspected of being a drug trafficker and who was using her for the purpose of laundering the proceeds of such trafficking . |
21 | Erika was not too sure about the girl in Pankow , half suspecting that Fräulein Silber was using her as a means of putting pressure on herself . |
22 | Going out with a man who , according to Dawn , was using her in order to achieve his own ends . |
23 | The idea was I was using them as sub-headings originally but then people were kept y'know slowing d it 's erm very hard to work out whether what you actually want is a good detailed set of notes . |
24 | ‘ Never once , during our association , did they guess that I was using them to further my revenge against the Wolfkings . |
25 | A shower unit caught fire while a woman was using it at her home in Weston Crescent , Norton . |
26 | ‘ I knew it could n't be the murder weapon , ’ he gravely told Wickham , ‘ because I was using it on Friday evening , hours after MacQuillan was found dead . ’ |
27 | As to whether this was an historically accurate account of American development is beside the point , since he was using it as a debating point . |
28 | ‘ Perhaps he was using it as an office , ’ the agent suggested , kindly . |
29 | It 's decreased traffic it 's decreased the traffic for what was using it as a commercial premises . |
30 | remember what Richard was using it as yesterday . |