Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [pers pn] was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He poured himself more whisky , pressing Herr Nordern to have another , too , and saying that he was leading the Norderns into bad ways but that they must forgive him as it was n't very often they saw him , ha ! ha ! and Herr Nordern , while not prepared to accept that he was led by anyone except the leaders of his country , took the whisky , thinking , what the devil , he had worked like a dog all day , and it was true , Karl would not be with them much longer and they would probably never see him again and , he had to confess , he would n't mind if he never saw him again as long as either of them lived . |
| 2 | He was perceptive enough to know that she was suffering from some sort of emotional wound that had nothing to do with him . |
| 3 | To know that she was needed by someone gave her a heady sense of power . |
| 4 | ‘ But , more than that , she seemed to want everyone to know that she was sitting with somebody other than her husband . |
| 5 | It was his great satisfaction in retirement to know that he was held in deep affection by many hundreds of students who were fortunate enough to come under his caring influence . ’ |
| 6 | Alice Conway almost jumped back into her kitchen as her daughter swung round now and yelled at her , ‘ It may surprise you to know that I was thinking about you and Father and this house , and the business downstairs . |
| 7 | No need for him to know that I was watching at the window . |
| 8 | During which time I found that at the worst all Englishmen stuck together in regard to the West Indians … it was like a thorn in my heels to know that I was working in an atmosphere of hostility . |
| 9 | On 14 October Coleridge wrote abstractedly to John Thelwall that , ‘ I should much wish , like the Indian Vishna , to float about along an infinite ocean cradled in the flower of the Lotos , & wake once in a million years for a few minutes — just to know that I was going to sleep a million years more . ’ |
| 10 | When Allen at last found a crevice secure enough to trust to he looked over to find that he was peering into the little courtyard onto the rain-wet backs of the dejected horses . |
| 11 | I responded as usual by smiling slightly — sufficient at least to indicate that I was participating in some way with the good-humouredness with which he was carrying on — and waited to see if my employer 's permission regarding the trip would be forthcoming . |
| 12 | Even from the distance she could see Doreen clasping his arm while looking up into his face , and it was easy to guess that she was pleading to be moved into a chalet . |
| 13 | They asked him how he was doing at school , made up questions to test him , twitted him about imaginary girlfriends , and there was always someone who wanted to know if he was going to be an RIC man like his dad when he grew up . |
| 14 | Just prior to this I was under a great deal of pressure to complete a computer program , and went in to work while I was suffering from the flu and not sleeping very well . |
| 15 | I want to know whether it was done by Glynn himself or by an outsider . |
| 16 | She wants to know whether she was judged on the piece of sculpture itself ; and if so is it not true that time alone can judge a work of art ? or was she judged on her talent ; if so , is it right that she should be judged on a part of life over which she has no control ? |
| 17 | He refused to comment as he was bundled from court with his girlfriend into a waiting car . |
| 18 | And he was going to see that it was finished by Friday . |
| 19 | ‘ Launch ’ is an apt term : it was never his intention to control or manipulate the Council , for it was a sovereign body under his presidency ; his duty was to see that it was heading in the right direction . |
| 20 | She was surprised to see that he was struggling for words — something he had not done since the day two years before when her brother Thomas had been murdered by the English . |
| 21 | It was easy to see that he was running for his job then . |
| 22 | I trusted him to see that I was equipped for the new life I had chosen . |
| 23 | A FORMER employee of British Nuclear Fuels at Sellafield ( formerly Windscale ) goes before an industrial tribunal today to claim that he was forced into resigning from the Sellafield works because he insisted on answers to his allegations that the plant 's laundry was inefficient and turned out ‘ clean ’ overalls that still contained traces of radioactivity . |
| 24 | Later in the morning we were able to confirm that she was heading for a port in Southern Ireland . |
| 25 | Graham started to smile , though he thought the joke itself might be in rather poor taste , but then he was aware of Sara turning quickly , putting her glass on the mantelpiece and looking straight at him , coming closer , her face set in strange hard lines , eyes bright , taking him by the elbow and turning her head as if to emphasise that she was talking to Graham , ignoring Slater , saying , " You do dance , do n't you ? " |
| 26 | He pressed her to agree that it was finished between them , but she merely shrugged . |
| 27 | Now , after attending the opening of ‘ Die grosse Utopie : die Russische Avantgarde 1915–1932 ’ in Frankfurt-am-Main yesterday , at my own expense , I wish to state that I was dazzled by the beauty and breadth of the exhibition and that the pluses far outweigh the minuses . |
| 28 | The single most difficult thing I found when using the Grafpad was to remember whether I was drawing on the screen or mapping the attributes . |
| 29 | I looked to see if he was trying to be unpleasant but he was obviously making an effort to be polite . |
| 30 | But they were , they kept on looking at me to see if I was gon na move and I thought I 'm not gon na move till you move . |