Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] [det] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ! |
| 3 | I was looking in all the shop windows , at the reflections . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Although Fred pretended to be surprised at my earnings I felt sure he knew what was going on all the time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She had no idea why Lucenzo should be remotely interested , or why he was waiting in such a fever of anticipation for her answer . |
| 8 | She was turning into such a crybaby … ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Caroline realised that she was floundering in such a morass of conflicting emotions that she hardly knew what to resent most . |
| 11 | Baby Donald was yelling with all the force of his lungs . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |