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 .
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