Example sentences of "[vb pp] [coord] [pron] was [adv] [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 Garland was shaken and he was still making up his mind how to react when the doorbell rang .
2 Summer ‘ 91 , I had just retired and I was so looking forward to it when , one week ‘ into it ’ , told us that she & had parted company .
3 Suddenly she realized that the bubble had disappeared and she was now gliding through the tunnel .
4 It was Fiver who had stamped and he was now staring intently across the field .
5 Well they 'd gone off and before Anthea had gone and I was still fiddling about getting the windows clean .
6 The Collector 's delirium still continued and he was undoubtedly becoming weaker ; because of these continuing symptoms McNab now substituted bark , chloric aether , and ammonia in effervescence for the laudanum and asked Miriam to increase the brandy to half an ounce every hour .
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