Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] of [v-ing] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were fond of writing on their vases and several have left us their names , including the man who seems to have led the movement , Euphronios , and his great younger rival Euthymides . |
| 2 | But when the state collects taxes in order to provide some of its citizens with services which they were capable of obtaining for themselves it is perpetrating a grave act of injustice on the taxpayers . |
| 3 | She did n't know what to do or say , and even if she had her body and mind were incapable of acting on it . |
| 4 | After the first morning he did n't go back , he was afraid of dropping in his own estimation . |
| 5 | Monica Sidebottom says she took in guests as she was tired of talking to her animals ! |
| 6 | Susan Bell , Seth 's editor at Random House , was tired of talking about him . |
| 7 | ‘ But I also decided I was tired of running from you . ’ |
| 8 | He was ashamed of going to their usual practitioner , and went some distance away to a physician in Westminster , stepping past the beggars who lay about the pavement , demanding alms . |
| 9 | By this time , there was concern as to whether Charlie was capable of looking after himself . |
| 10 | Dead Certain had been as badly affected as any , but Elsworth simply would not run a horse of that class in such a race unless he believed it was capable of giving of its best . |
| 11 | She hated him and she hated what he was capable of doing to her , but her hate was n't enough to stop herself from feeling the forbidden pleasure of his hands on her body . |
| 12 | John was capable of laughing at himself in respect of attempts at beautification . |
| 13 | The woman clung to Julia 's hand and broke down for the first time , weeping and pouring out a torrent of Italian that Julia was incapable of translating for herself . |
| 14 | Some would argue that society as a whole was incapable of rising to it morally and that little could be done to enforce it . |
| 15 | Perhaps she was incapable of standing on her own and needed the encouragement of supportive males . |