Example sentences of "was [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This victory was to delight the masses just as it brought little pleasure to the newly energized forces of the political left , but , just as significantly , it was now also an occasional delight to a growing audience drawn from amongst critics , intellectuals , and the more respectable classes generally . |
| 2 | ‘ Last time I was stopped the car had a bell . |
| 3 | In 1540 he transformed the office of Wards , formed in 1503 , into the Court of Wards , to which was joined the office of Liveries in 1542 . |
| 4 | The French Navy passed the problem to the DGSE who at first suggested that the simplest course of action was to tow the Rainbow Warrior out to the test area . |
| 5 | Almost Newman 's first act at the BBC was to decimate the existing Script Department under Donald Wilson . |
| 6 | He often said that he never really wanted to be a dancer , and his only purpose was to acquire the knowledge of dancing necessary to become a choreographer . |
| 7 | Our custodians used to be dressed in the same uniform as prison warders and their task was maintaining the monument and its grounds . |
| 8 | Philip of Swabia , meanwhile , was maintaining the illegality of the meeting on the grounds that there was a legitimate heir , that oaths had been taken to that heir by all the princes and that , furthermore , few of them had been present at Andernach . |
| 9 | Not only was maintaining the British war effort imposing an ever-increasing burden , but subsidies to allies seriously inflated that burden . |
| 10 | At the next table , the black African diplomat was impressing the girl he was with . |
| 11 | It was as Cornelius waited humbly and receptively in prayer , that God 's supreme gift , the Holy Spirit , was poured out upon him before ever Peter who was preaching the good news to him , reached the climax of his sermon ! |
| 12 | So she was seeing the Colombians as the enemy . |
| 13 | The writer 's own experience was seeing the Progress car in the first post-war Illuminations of 1949 : sheer magic as it swept by , playing music while its myriad bulbs radiated heat and light . |
| 14 | I have added a 40W actinic and a reflector as I did not think I was seeing the true colours of my fish . |
| 15 | For Lee everything was being spotlit and she was seeing the people around her as if for the first time . |
| 16 | The next thing I remember was seeing the face of a policeman above his yellow emergency jacket , who was reassuring me : I was all right . |
| 17 | Iggy Pop and the lippily ascendant Wonder Stuff aside , the only high point was seeing the pathetic Meat Loaf take umbrage at the traditional hail of plastic bottles . |
| 18 | He looked out into the roadway without seeing the rain beating mercilessly against the cobbled surface or the leaves of the trees dripping constantly as they shivered in the breeze , he was seeing the four walls of his cell and remembering his feeling of helplessness as the door slammed shut behind him . |
| 19 | The thing that really motivated me was seeing the 1968 Olympics ; I saw Thommie Smith and thought , ‘ God , that 's it ! ’ |
| 20 | Behind her diamond eyes , Jezrael was seeing the plants she 'd maimed in the name of cultures . |
| 21 | At that moment , hundreds of miles away in Yorkshire , Colin was seeing the secret garden for the first time , and saying , ‘ I 'm going to live for ever and ever and ever ! ’ |
| 22 | Helen wondered if she was seeing the first moment of a gathering hysteria . |
| 23 | It was seeing the animals . |
| 24 | As he responded , Rostov remembered the survey briefing and wondered if he was seeing the first evidence of genetic mutation . |
| 25 | Turakina behaved as if she was seeing the offworlder for the first time . |
| 26 | By now my man was seeing the ball like a melon . |
| 27 | She said , as if she was seeing the possibility of doubt for the very first time , ‘ You arc the man from the pest control ? ’ |
| 28 | She felt a wire wool of beard on her chin , and realised she was seeing the world two-dimensionally . |
| 29 | He was seeing the Rorim as it should be , without the threat of ruin hanging over it — though tomorrow these same people would be stinting themselves to eke out their supplies through the winter . |
| 30 | He was seeing the evidence left by America 's policy of intervention , and , having just been told of Churchill 's agreement to Roosevelt 's demand for bases rights in Trinidad , found himself posing the question ; ‘ if Haiti 's isolation , poverty and tyranny after independence represented one lesson to West Indian colonials ’ , did it also pose another , … ‘ that West Indian colonials were destined to graduate from European colonialism to American ? ’ |