Example Sentences

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He said: "Ms Smith's intention was to try and resolve matters. Like her co-defendant, not for a second did she consider her action and behaviour was amounting to a criminal offence."

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2017

Hudson recognised the fact that he was land-bound and winter-bound in a desolate region, with a discontented crew, and that the discontent was amounting to mutiny.

From A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole by Synge, M. B. (Margaret Bertha)

For, in reality, that was all the whole pother was amounting to.

From The Brentons by Dexter, Wilson C.

The officer was apparently not discouraged by his failure to win recognition from her, and what was amounting to annoyance for Lanfear reached the point where he felt he must share it with her father.

From Between the Dark and the Daylight by Howells, William Dean

But for all his outward equability, his impatience was amounting to torment.

From The Sign of the Spider by Mitford, Bertram