Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly I was climbing up the long ladder of the North pier , the rucksack being roped afterwards . |
| 2 | Inside I was guided down a weird stairway and told at one point to watch my step carefully . |
| 3 | Perhaps she was getting on a little too well without me . |
| 4 | Anyway I was going over a few things in my mind . |
| 5 | Soon we were bowling along a narrow road , through a gentle countryside of green fields , with dim mountains in the far distance . |
| 6 | Thus they were missing out a vital dimension of proper assessment — a family diagnosis — and in the process were leaving parents anxious , uninformed and isolated . |
| 7 | Well we did take some er legal advice on it and we were told that it was not illegal , erm I mean we think it 's highly immoral erm , but we were told it was not illegal , because they did not actually use the er the redundancy money did not come out of the fund , only this enhanced pension etcetera which was using up the , the surplus and we were told |
| 8 | As always he was nosing out the territory like a dog in a new home ; no objective in view . |
| 9 | Yesterday he was taking on the anti-government creed of the 1980s which left economics to the free market . |
| 10 | That was the end of his second month 's loan after scoring twice in six games ; later he was to turn down the chance of a permanent move . |
| 11 | Now she was acting out the ill-fitting role of a protective mother , and protective of what ? |
| 12 | She was still shivering and her head felt muzzy , but now she was lying down the boat did n't seem to be doing quite so much heaving and rolling . |
| 13 | He had not tried , however , and now he was tying up the boat and expertly folding down the sails . |
| 14 | Well I was looking out the other side cos I was trying to work out where Glynis lived . |
| 15 | Barnes added : ‘ Being on the same pitch as that other bloke Barnes would be a dream because only two years ago I was putting up the nets on Sunday mornings for my hospital team . ’ |
| 16 | But Lugh would rise above it all , and would not bother to listen to complaints about who was getting larger helpings of stew , or who was having the most comfortable sleeping quarters , or even who was getting up a bit later than everyone else . |
| 17 | There I was strolling down the scrubby end of the Kings Road , mooching along . |
| 18 | A leading advertisement writer describes how she was going round a factory making china when she saw an employee taking plates from the production line , smashing them and throwing the pieces into a box . |
| 19 | Maybe she was warming up the showers . |
| 20 | She had a computer actually on the it was on the side of a surveying instrument , so she was probably working out how far down she 'd actually dug by looking through the sights and reading the numbers and then she was entering up the numbers on the computer . |
| 21 | He stroked firmly , looked over his right shoulder , stroked some more , looked over his left , then he was reversing up the stomach-churning Pipeline elevator . |
| 22 | Then he was drawing back a little , his eyes washing over her . |
| 23 | Then he was running down the office , howling like a bereaved dog . |
| 24 | It consists of the bass-parts for each choir , placed one above the other , with bar-lines but no text or figures to indicate how he was to fill out the bass , only an occasional flat or sharp above the notes ; when in the Masses a movement begins in a higher part only , this is shown in the organ part ; but when the higher voices sing without the bass , the organ part is marked ‘ tacet ’ or ‘ non est hic ’ . |
| 25 | Mr Major explained how he was carrying on the principles of his predecessor and pointed out that he was her seconder in the leadership ballot and regretted that she had not stayed on . |
| 26 | I think he 's , he 's like the other day when he was here he was talking about how he was turning over a new leaf and stuff . |
| 27 | Instead I was looking down the quay to where a pathetically thin girl was walking beside a smartly dressed woman . |
| 28 | I stole it out of one of the Posten 's haversacks when I was cleaning out the guard-room . |
| 29 | Erm I was n't , I did n't know what you were trying to get at when you were bringing up the miles per annum that he was doing , I can understand the flying side of it but driving in the car , yes you need to know that he 's doing a lot of miles and that there 's , you know , the there 's the potential danger and everything there but I did n't understand why you need his specific miles per annum . |
| 30 | she said it was very lonely at night when you were walking down the corridors . |