Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I saw a stage-play instead of a sermon on the Lord 's days … and heard little preaching but what was … against the Puritans , I was glad to be gone . ’ |
| 2 | Dioxin was indeed found at one Rhone-Poulenc dump in France , its manager nervously explaining that it was good French dioxin , and not a nasty Italian import . |
| 3 | The work was interesting but not so demanding that there was no time for anything else . |
| 4 | She stopped , suddenly realising that she was letting her ideas run away with her . |
| 5 | Not another appearance of his unknown sibling , it felt quite different , in any case that creature was very , very private , only appearing when they were alone . |
| 6 | Developments in antislavery — both the spread of local associations and the splitting off of the Agency campaign — were portrayed as only occurring when they were functionally necessary and productive of minimal conflict . |
| 7 | He was not very good about women 's clothes , only noticing whether they were becoming or not , but he recognised the quality of hers , and of the big leather handbag she had placed on the desk . |
| 8 | For all that he could be expected to stay in the Lorrimores , car for at least fifteen more minutes I felt decidedly jittery , and I left the door open so that if he did come back unexpectedly I could say I was merely checking that everything was in order . |
| 9 | Okay well do n't worry do n't worry he ca n't you know just think of something though having said that if you look at the role that you played in the group moving towards the chairman 's style , taking over the group perhaps becoming and you were n't a person that sort of took over and forced your views on everybody but you were certainly up there at the front with and listening to people taking information and manipulating everything that you had to fit what was coming in from everybody so that does show Chairman 's skills , Chairman tendencies |
| 10 | It is perhaps fitting that he was carried to his pauper 's grave by the stonemasons then engaged in restoring Camborne Church . |
| 11 | After all , here you are in Nicole 's hotel bedroom , obviously believing that you were n't going to be finding a third party here as well . |
| 12 | The potatoes were so filling that there was n't a great deal of room left for all the other foods they usually ate . |
| 13 | Like many of the gentry all over the country , he was convinced that the wound now bleeding Christendom might yet be healed , and the Church , the Body of Christ , made whole ; so when he gave sanctuary to young men on their way to train as priests in France , or secret agents from Spain or Ireland , he did so believing that he was acting in the best interests of his country , claiming that if anyone was a traitor it was the ardent puritans like Walsingham and Drake , who by their political manoeuvrings and piratical attacks on Spanish merchantmen were pushing the Queen remorselessly into a confrontation with King Philip of Spain . |
| 14 | She decided to take a train to Arles , idly wondering whether there was any trace of Van Gogh left . |
| 15 | Even the thought of sharing a bed with him did n't seem so threatening when he was being kind . |
| 16 | He was right , a fire watcher came in saying that there was a stick of small unexploded bombs right down the Palace Road but that the junction of Munster and Dawes Road had had a hundred pounder and houses had gone . |
| 17 | If in other company , he was constantly saying that he was asexual , in the presence of Orton and Halliwell he was one of them — and wanted it that way . |
| 18 | The Collectanea , on the other hand , almost certainly influenced both the tone and direction of Henry 's statements on the subject , for unlike Tyndale its authors were not calling for Henry to seize new powers in order to reform the church , but were merely insisting that he was already head of the church and only needed to exercise a pre-existing authority . |
| 19 | The most this can mean is that the people who voted for the party did so knowing that it was planning to do certain things , and that therefore these voters can be assumed to have consented to those plans . |
| 20 | They talked about a project together with director Hal Ashby , who was trying to raise finance for a film based upon a remake of The Postman Always Rings Twice ( which Nicholson later made with Jessica Lange ) , but MGM pulled out because they did not think Michelle Phillips was a big enough name , not apparently appreciating that she was once a starring member of a world-famous singing quartet . |
| 21 | Andrew Jackson won the presidency in 1828 in spite of his pipe-smoking wife Rachel being branded ‘ adulteress ’ and ‘ whore ’ for purportedly marrying before she was divorced . |
| 22 | This one followed him trustingly , its interest only evaporating when it was turned away from the bar we entered . |
| 23 | HAMMERSMITH and Fulham Council in west London continued to take out options on the London money market even after the intervention of the district auditor , wrongly thinking that it was reducing its holdings , the High Court was told yesterday . |
| 24 | John , 42 , of Ellesmere Port , said : ‘ I was on the phone taking a 999 call when someone came in screaming that there was a baby who could not breathe . |
| 25 | Quickly , Hari ladled the soup into bowls and cut a few thick pieces of bread , suddenly realizing that she was hungry too . |
| 26 | Charles stressed that Aimee 's hair would look especially striking if it was darkened and enriched to give the illusion of body . |
| 27 | She stopped abruptly , perhaps fearing that she was boring me . |
| 28 | Before 1926 , when a person died wholly or partly intestate , the distribution of his property differed widely according as it was real or personal estate . |
| 29 | She dealt with his query and recalled how , when she had been going over everything Naylor had said , including his certainty that someone else must be chipping in to pay her mortgage , she had got round to accepting that she just could not afford to go on living where she was . |
| 30 | ‘ You let me go on believing that you were one of their crew , ’ she persisted heatedly , provoked by his bland unconcern . |