Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I realised this was unusual for an owl , because in the wild they tend to swallow their prey whole , so I simply stopped holding on to the chick and soon she was gobbling it up in one . |
| 2 | She was easing her back with her hands , happy with the shoes near to completion , when young Will returned . |
| 3 | So she had no idea , when her antics were effective , how she was using herself up in her efforts to ward off her disappearance from the world , in her girlish desire to please . |
| 4 | He was not using it to further his own human development , he was using it up for the profit of the people who paid him , the anonymous shareholders and their abstract interests . |
| 5 | They were in the bedroom and he was tucking her in under the quilt , stroking her forehead , pushing back the damp strands of blonde hair where her tears had soaked them . |
| 6 | The difficulty was sneaking it out of the mill . |
| 7 | All she really wanted was to see him out of the house . |
| 8 | I decided the only thing to do was throw her in at the deep end and go right down the village high street , where the roads were busiest and noisiest with holiday-makers , and simply stand there trying to calm her down . |
| 9 | Hilary was depressed at your long absence ; I was cheering her up with photographs of your sporting exploits , which hang , as you know , in the master bedroom . |
| 10 | Leith broke off , suddenly appalled that he must think that his cousin Travis was helping her out with her mortgage repayments . |
| 11 | As the girl played the woman dilated her nostrils and rose slightly off the piano stool , as if someone was drawing her up by an invisible wire attached to the crown of her head . |
| 12 | She had him by the hand by then , and was drawing him in to the hearth , for the early November mist was on his shoulders , and his face looked thin and cold . |
| 13 | Now I was in a position to move on ; but something had taken root deeper than the superficialities of travelling — a feeling that my story was not here , that something was drawing me back to Peru . |
| 14 | He was eating something out of a box . |
| 15 | She she you know she was slagging me off like anything right . |
| 16 | The swing of the hurricane was bringing them back into the eye of the storm . |
| 17 | His first instinct was to fling them out of the window ; to put as much distance as he could between them and him . |
| 18 | Rain knew Oliver was picturing himself back in the wine bar in Chelsea telling everyone how he 'd been mistaken for a drug dealer and nearly done to death in a Mediterranean backstreet by an underworld rival . |
| 19 | Peter Davies , Eastbourne 's captain , told his players on the eve of the event that they were stroking the ball well and that they could upset the odds but added he was booking them out of their hotel . |
| 20 | At her worst , on the third night , faint from lack of food , her throat parched with thirst , she had a crazy idea that the storm was singling her out for punishment , was expending its venom to get at her . |
| 21 | We have been starved of second-hand cars because nobody was trading them in for new ones , but this should change that . ’ |
| 22 | ’ I do n't recall you being so keen to leave while your lover-boy was knocking me around in Fif 's last night ’ . |
| 23 | Councillor Rosie was appalled that the paper was American , outlining aspects of child abuse , what to look for , and how to confirm suspicions ; it was also nearly ten years old , written by an ‘ expert ’ who had been discredited in his own country , and certainly did n't signify that the council was keeping itself up to date on matters of such importance . |
| 24 | Er well , there was the highly immoral thing called overtime , erm if you had too much overtime you was keeping someone out of job . |
| 25 | Nothing could dent the self belief that was driving her on to new heights . |
| 26 | and erm she li she 's in Egham and her boyfriend came down and was driving her back to Sheffield and then driving back again here on Monday so she got a free journey home . |
| 27 | ‘ Ruggiero was driving her back from Rome late one night , and somehow the car left the road and ended up against a tree . |
| 28 | A harry torrent flooded through the opening and in no time at all the herd was legging it back to the high land in a wild stampede . |
| 29 | Erm the erm the erm periodical men who used to come over harvest their job was to pitch it up in the field . |
| 30 | Of course , the only way out of his troubles would be to confess to someone that he was passing himself off as a Muslim for the purposes of financial gain . |