Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adj] [conj] [pers pn] was [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time and again their commitment to doing a good job proved stronger than their commitment to looking good and it was out of this honesty that many of the insights ( if such they be ) in this book arose . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , yes , ’ she said , looking hurt that I was n't more impressed . |
| 3 | I think that 's why she said she was getting better when she was n't . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You 're silly , ’ said my mother , getting angry because she was n't used to converse of culture . |
| 5 | In The Family , Sex and Marriage he was careful to retain an open mind on affective individualism , emphasizing first that it was not necessarily the way of the future , family change not being linear , and second , that it did not necessarily result in greater happiness than other forms of family organization . |
| 6 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 7 | Deterioration of the second pier was increasing fast and it was unfortunately closed in 1982 . |
| 8 | Making sure that he was not visible from the house , he tried the brown bakelite handle . |
| 9 | I had the uncanny feeling that the ghost of Sigmund Freud was chiding me for thinking this and she was clearly incensed that I could suggest that her father could have had any interest in religion whatsoever . |
| 10 | ‘ Their original intentions were to lessen the humiliation experienced by the victim in a rape trial and to send a symbolic liberating and educational message to the rest of society , advising all that it was no longer acceptable to assault sexually ( or batter , or ultimately to subjugate ) women . ’ |
| 11 | Leonora flew to do his bidding , feeling better once she was back in bed , her face sponged and the tangles brushed from her hair . |