Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [pron] [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 | She was impressing herself with her ability to inject a casual calm into her voice , to compose her features in the darkness of the car . |
| 4 | The snow was smothering everything in whiteness , deadening all sound . |
| 5 | If she had neutered the quick of mystery in platitude before , she was smothering it with symbols now . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She felt as though she was seeing them from under a great weight . |
| 9 | He gave her a long , slow look as if he was seeing her for the first time . |
| 10 | I suppose it was seeing me in ‘ his ’ shirt . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Although he was no stranger to the town , now that he was on a case he was seeing it with new eyes . |
| 14 | She was seeing it from Sabine Jourdain 's point of view : a young foreigner pursuing her and intending to latch on to her . |
| 15 | He was seeing it all so differently from Gabriel ; he was seeing it from the other side of the mirror . |
| 16 | I could see he was bracing himself for his act . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , the Chancellor was bracing himself for a furious political storm when he unveils his autumn package on Thursday , including a mystery ‘ fiscal package ’ ministers are remaining tight-lipped about . |
| 18 | In the ornate new council chamber , Mayor Murphy was trying to convince the city council that to be a real Edwardian Mayor he ought to wear mayoral robes , as they did in England ; the newly extended hospital was bracing itself for additional accident cases ; and Hank Stych stood in the airport at Calgary waiting for a local plane to take him north to Tollemarche . |
| 19 | The city was bracing itself for a party to beat them all , but the Spaniards decided to re-write the script . |
| 20 | The mother was knitting something for seamen from coloured string . |
| 21 | He was demanding something of Meredith , that much was evident . |
| 22 | Milton had no intention of sharing the unpopularity which was attaching itself to Sir James and promptly referred the matter to the Solicitor-General for action , but the end result , as Mrs. Campbell pointed out , was that ‘ our Member has lost his interest in this parish and really by most of our friends in the shire ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He had no idea that I was prostituting myself in the cause of Jean-Claude 's success . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Going out with a man who , according to Dawn , was using her in order to achieve his own ends . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ Never once , during our association , did they guess that I was using them to further my revenge against the Wolfkings . |