Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [conj] [pron] were [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if the train journey itself , the old-fashioned intimate compartment in which they had found themselves , the freedom from interruptions and the tyranny of the telephone , the sense of time visibly flying , annihilated under the pounding wheels , not to be accounted for , had released both of them from a carefulness which had become so much a part of living that they were no longer aware of its weight until they let it slip from their shoulders . |
| 2 | But by way of indicating that they were not , and could not be , the final truth , he appended a series of objections to his lecture course . |
| 3 | A visual mean of basal UOS pressure was determined from each edited minute of tracing if there were more than 14 seconds remaining after editing . |
| 4 | I thought you might stand a better chance of winning if there were n't enough votes . |
| 5 | Even on weekdays there were problems in booking caddies because members who , say , arrived at lunchtime might discover that all the caddies were out on the course , and there was no way of telling whether they were also booked for the afternoon ! |