Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [was/were] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd fixed the place where he 'd been , stooped to pick up her baggage , and gone after him , not doubting that it was he . |
| 2 | He had not expected it of her and wished he could have gone away quickly without even asking if there was anything he could do for her . |
| 3 | And then either you were n't answering or there was something wrong with the phone . |
| 4 | Our modern parental investment individualistic view would n't allow you to make that error , instead you 'd say you know you 've got ta look at the costs and benefits of the mother too and perhaps there are benefits to mothers in actively testing as it were their offspring , erm rather than just passively er accepting that they 're gon na have to be mothers and gon na have to get on with it and again you see , er I would er and this may have been the big mistake I made last year , er but again I stand by my er view on this and it 's a perfectly defensible one , erm again I think those who say that abortion is unnatural and kind of erm offends against er you know nature , are wrong . |
| 5 | After the first occasion , Timothy managed to contrive other encounters , Topaz never suspecting that they were anything but happy chances . |
| 6 | And one day he came across a huge seal and killed it , never knowing that it was his own father in his seal form . |