Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though she was wishing that , after all , she 'd taken a seat , for she suspected he was rather enjoying letting her stew in her own juice . |
| 2 | Even though its evolutionary course was eventually destined to lead it into the complicated and probably costly distortions involved in having two eyes on one side , even though the skate way of being a flat fish might ultimately have been the best design for bony fish too , the would-be intermediates that set out along this evolutionary pathway apparently did less well in the short term than their rivals lying on their side . |
| 3 | And she wondered what that admission was eventually going to cost her . |
| 4 | Obviously very pleased with herself over this and Aggie 's reaction , she then brought it up so many times that Aggie was eventually forced to yell her into silence . |
| 5 | Fortunately there was enough left to make it a good movie . |
| 6 | Much of the machinery is in working order and I was so fascinated to see it actually in operation that I was late getting back to the bus ; driver sitting with engine running , and the eyes of every accusing fellow passenger upon me . |
| 7 | ‘ I was merely trying to prevent you getting sunstroke . |
| 8 | I suppose it is not beyond the realms of possibility that he was passively involved in the supposed robbery — an accomplice who was merely required to ignore it . ’ |
| 9 | The meeting was obviously intended to establish him as sole king , and may have led directly to the coronation in London by Archbishop Lyfing reported by a twelfth-century dean of St Paul 's . |
| 10 | He swung the gun upwards on his mount and was obviously set to cut me in half with his next pass when the knifehilt appeared in his chest , lodged deep between two bandoliers . |
| 11 | The girl rescued the five-pound note , because he was obviously going to let it lie there . |
| 12 | She was a prisoner at Rocamar , in this hateful place , with that baleful monster who was only determined to humiliate her . |
| 13 | He stared at his companion 's round cherubic face and twinkling blue eyes and knew that Benstede was only trying to draw him into conversation . |
| 14 | While I knew he was only trying to give me a kick up the backside for my own good , I felt really , really low . |
| 15 | ‘ While I knew he was only trying to give me a kick up the backside for my own good , I felt really , really low . |
| 16 | I was only trying to give you some support , Claudia . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I was only trying to cheer him up , ’ said old Eddy Moulton . |
| 18 | I was only trying to spare you . |
| 19 | ‘ I was only trying to jolly her along . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ In any case , I was only trying to warn her . |
| 21 | I was only trying to warn you that things are n't always cut and dried . |
| 22 | He was only trying to make her feel better . |
| 23 | However , having been off last week , I have n't been able to do that , but I have made all the amendments and I was only going to talk us through those that needed everybody to know about them . |
| 24 | Perhaps she was only going to warn her yet again not to trip over the electric cables . |
| 25 | On several tables draped with white oil-cloth reposed the battered and bloody remains of what was left of five Chinese bodies , and Fred Peavy , the mortician-embalmer , was apparently trying to piece them together to make up the contents of five plain wooden coffins . |
| 26 | Instead she glanced about the small chamber off the hall into which she had been ushered , thanking whatever saint had been responsible that de Raimes was apparently going to keep her to himself . |
| 27 | Little wonder he saw some fresh sport in the pursuit of someone like Shannon , who was single-mindedly determined to keep him at arm 's length . |
| 28 | Jessamy was finally beginning to believe he was right about that . |
| 29 | ‘ He described quite graphically — to me personally — how he felt with it seeping through the blindfold and beginning to sting and then burn at his eyes so that he was finally forced to open them in order to blink . |
| 30 | She did n't reply and Adam saw she was desperately trying to believe him . |