Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I reported the drop to Warton and asked what was happening with the rescue efforts . |
| 2 | I called and asked what was happening to my appeal . |
| 3 | I looked across at Mum and found she was looking at Mrs Danby with an expression I did not recognize . |
| 4 | ‘ Laura 's just an old friend , ’ he said , knowing it was hopeless , that he had blown it or rather that Laura had blown it for him , and found he was speaking to the back of her neck . |
| 5 | Endill opened his eyes slowly and found he was standing in a little room made entirely of books . |
| 6 | Then , came Peter 's most frightening moment : ‘ We were sent out in a Land Rover and told we were driving through enemy territory . ’ |
| 7 | I was lucky , because instead of being on house assessment I was called and told I was going to be on the works party next day , only my second day at Styal . |
| 8 | ‘ He flew back today and heard I was working for you , so he — ’ |
| 9 | When Jessica poked her in the ribs and swore they were coming for them , she hardly raised her head . |
| 10 | Again she heard herself say , ‘ that' , and then she managed to stammer , ‘ w … was my sister , ’ before the floating feeling overcame her and she-knew she was falling into somewhere . |
| 11 | I could make neither head nor tail of it and decided I was dealing with a bunch of idiots . |
| 12 | But then she saw his eyes staring emptily ahead of him , and knew he was walking in his sleep . |
| 13 | She was still there some time later , gazing sightlessly through the glass over the snow-covered fields beyond , when she felt a strange tingle in the back of her neck , and knew he was standing behind her . |
| 14 | Constance heard Louise on the telephone and knew she was talking to Nora . |
| 15 | Michael 's younger sister found him a fidget in church and thought it was fidgeting to excess . |
| 16 | I said I reckoned she got her oar in first and thought I 'm gon na |
| 17 | ‘ The policeman saw the car coming straight towards him , and thought he was going to be hit , and had to pull in to the side of the road . |
| 18 | and thought he was gon na wi , how much you got there ? |
| 19 | The testers presented themselves at factory gates , the minority one first and the other about half an hour later , and said they were looking for work . |
| 20 | She wrote to Carrie and Nick and said she was living in a boarding house in a street near the docks , in a dark little room that smelt of kippers . |
| 21 | She concentrated on the one with the trousers and said she was looking for George . |
| 22 | She made her get into bed and said she was sending for the blue ladies right away . |
| 23 | She pushed her mug away from her and said she was going to bed . |
| 24 | Finally he took me in to his office and said he was looking for Girls to work at the Winter Gardens , Blackpool . |
| 25 | The police , having interviewed working colleagues of the victim at the London Docks , had elicited information to the effect that at the end of his shift he met two men outside the gates and said he was going for a drink with them . |
| 26 | Military sources named the pilot as Major Adel Bassem , 34 , and said he was co-operating with his Israeli debriefers . |
| 27 | I wondered what he wanted , so I did it ; and in the interval of the rehearsal he came and said he was suffering from nervous shock because the moment I started he realized I was doing exactly the contrary of all the things he had taught the orchestra . |
| 28 | The best debate in Britain this year took place at the Conservative Party conference when speaker after speaker analysed and criticised what was happening to the economy . |
| 29 | But all the same he wished that McAllister were not going up West with Rose that night , and wondered what was coming over him that such a fly-trap could fill his waking — and his sleeping — thoughts ! |
| 30 | He took off his helmet , his sweating brow cold in the air , and wondered who was lying outside the pavilion , wrapped in wool cloaking . |