Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [det] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Jews were walking into all the plum jobs , in the medical profession especially , which infuriated Odilo and his friends , and which , to be frank , even worried me . |
| 2 | Erm , when we were looking at all the markers like erm , |
| 3 | Jackie phoned me up to say , she phoned me up today for a chat , we were chatting away and she said erm , I heard Brenda , Brenda , so I knew it was girl , and er , I was saying she walked straight into the kitchen and I was sort of still on the phone , I was saying yeah , yeah , ok and erm , I said I 'm going out shopping and I 'm taking the dog with me , I said ok fair enough , she said well you 'll probably be gone when I get back , I said oh might be but she said but I do n't know and erm you know and I just put the phone down cos she wanted to see the pictures , my little girl asked put all the pictures up for him and er were looking at all the pictures and I 'd forgotten about Jack on the phone you know , so she s all of a sudden I got back she said oh your phone call she said who you talking too ? |
| 4 | Twenty two , you were paying for all the teas were n't ya ? |
| 5 | So if you were commenting on such a section as this , you would have a great deal of things to say on , just on the letter forms as they appear on the page . |
| 6 | To this extent , in establishing the service , certain governmental and educational authorities were signalling with all the pomp and circumstance of legislation that youth did constitute a separate and , in important respects , an immature source of labour which required special treatment . |
| 7 | ‘ As it turns out , ’ McDunn says , while the fag packet goes tap , tap , ‘ although they are both away from home a lot , their movements are very well documented ; we know pretty well what they were doing during all the attacks . ’ |
| 8 | Almost certainly if you were suffering from such an illness you would have other symptoms to indicate that you were unwell . |
| 9 | Dangerous driving is usually reserved for intentional dangerous driving or where it can be proved the defendant was driving in such a way as to fall within the new definition of ‘ driving dangerously ’ in section 2A ( 1 ) to ( 4 ) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 . |
| 10 | I was sprinting in all the B League races for London Irish , winning all the time and getting fed up with it ; there was no real challenge . |
| 11 | then I was looking at all the garden stuff , and and I thought well , start by the , and I thought I 'm doing a Joey ! |
| 12 | minutes he was looking through all the advertisements for civil engineering . |
| 13 | But already the 11.54 was steaming into the station , and Perks was looking in all the windows . |
| 14 | I was looking in all the shop windows , at the reflections . |
| 15 | All the time Tabitha was listening with half an ear to the deep , slow throb of the engines , the background buzzes and creaks of the Alice Liddell in transit . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I was gaping at all the knick-knacks ! ’ she smiled up at him . |
| 17 | Although Fred pretended to be surprised at my earnings I felt sure he knew what was going on all the time . |
| 18 | Exactly who , or what , triggered this Titanic blast , or what exactly was going on half an hour before it went off , we are not told . |
| 19 | So after the opening I ran out of the dressing room to where Dad , in his red waistcoat , was waiting with all the others . |
| 20 | She had no idea why Lucenzo should be remotely interested , or why he was waiting in such a fever of anticipation for her answer . |
| 21 | She was turning into such a crybaby … ’ |
| 22 | He found now he was speaking to all the eagles in the Cages and that they were listening to him . |
| 23 | He would make the arrogant assumption that she was complaining about all the times separation would deprive her of him . |
| 24 | They had brought tales with them from England of witchcraft and the King 's concern ; an Essex man who had come with the Hopewell on the return voyage recalled how when he was a child , a pricker was calling on all the households of the nearby villages to discover the sources of a murrain on the flocks . |
| 25 | China was expanding at such a rate that some experts were predicting that by the year two thousand the world would be dominated by Chinese people , both numerically and in their demand for resources . |
| 26 | Caroline realised that she was floundering in such a morass of conflicting emotions that she hardly knew what to resent most . |
| 27 | Baby Donald was yelling with all the force of his lungs . |
| 28 | well they were they was rolling in all the muck in the farmyard but they , they went to the pies just put their noses round them and turned them over and then they s and true as god made little apples they started walking round these pies and they left them and they were still there when we went away . |
| 29 | I was thinking of all the work I needed to do on Masquerade ; all the painstaking hours of sawing and planing and caulking and rigging . |
| 30 | Jay became slashingly dykey , rolling one cigarette after another , was unashamedly heterosexist , never raised her voice above a steely drawl , though her throat was screaming with all the things she could n't say , her body bruised with the feeling of being trivialised . |