Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then we 'd draft reports , prepare maps , collect photographs , collate lists of growers and traffickers , plot their relationships , determine which illegal ports they were using and who they were paying off , make eight copies of everything and finally send it up the street to the embassy . |
| 2 | We knew they were geologists … they did n't come in contact with anybody on the island , they did n't tell people what they were doing or what they were looking for . |
| 3 | Endill could not make out what he was shouting but whatever it was it was not very friendly . |
| 4 | You know , he would keep citing statistics on how their recruiting was going and what they were doing . |
| 5 | He liked to tell anyone who would listen where he was going and what he was doing , and so my mother found his silences ominously strange . |
| 6 | We did some more research and we found out that in return for doing this you had to pay the minister a fine , so we found a minister who was very excited by the idea of marrying us in a seventeen century house , and in fact , on the morning of the wedding he was more worried about what he was wearing than what I was ! |
| 7 | Somehow if I could only know what he was doing and who he was seeing , that gave me some kind of control over the situation . |
| 8 | Throughout the day he would stop work , make us coffee and talk to me about what he was working on , what he was reading and what I was doing . |
| 9 | I did n't know who was playing or what they were playing , or where , or why . |
| 10 | I think events proved that she had come to know me a little better , and talked to me , and tried to find out what I was planning and what I was doing , and how David 's career was going , and co-operated with me to assist David , I think he would have had a much happier period ahead of him . ’ |