Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] was [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the group went on I was being truthful , I put down what I was drinking . |
| 2 | So I was Been on the streets now for about eight years . |
| 3 | Perhaps she was being a complete fool helping Craig Grenfell , was she allowing herself to be taken in by the first handsome man to come into her life ? |
| 4 | Or perhaps she was being paranoid , and it was chance . |
| 5 | Perhaps she was being silly in thinking that her job was the stumbling-block between them ; it was a pebble in the path certainly , but Maria Luisa was the actual stumbling-block . |
| 6 | Perhaps that was the trouble — perhaps she was being too polite . |
| 7 | Suddenly he was being addressed directly . |
| 8 | Then , feeling that perhaps he was being rather uncomplimentary to Dorothy , he added untruthfully : I 'd ask you , honey , only you 're too young for this one . ’ |
| 9 | Perhaps he was being absurdly English to treat girls like Cora-Beth as precious pieces of china not to be touched . |
| 10 | Perhaps he was being punished . |
| 11 | But perhaps he was being hypersensitive and letting his suspicions race like Jacqui 's . |
| 12 | Perhaps he was being sympathetic . |
| 13 | Perhaps he was being treated badly . |
| 14 | In doing so he was being made to look like a ‘ revisionist ’ , one of the dirtiest words in the Communist vocabulary , their equivalent of ‘ UnAmerican ’ or worse . |
| 15 | Soon I was being whisked back to Ballinasloe , the driver singing ‘ Red River Valley ’ for most of the way . |
| 16 | She appeared to be looking in two directions at once and Dot could n't tell whether or not she was being stared at . |
| 17 | Soon he was being coached by former long-distance runner Gordon Pirie , the film 's technical adviser , who said , ‘ Michael 's got a good physique , his co-ordination 's brilliant and he has a sparkling character . |
| 18 | Either she was a Madonna and people did n't give her credit for being one , or else she was trying to be one and people were trying to stop her or possibly she was being forced to be one against her better judgement . |
| 19 | He was arrested and yesterday he was being held in custody in London while detectives questioned him . |
| 20 | An hour later I was being monitored at the Birmingham Maternity Hospital — weak contractions confirmed in labour , I was sent to the ward in a wheelchair . |
| 21 | Minutes later she was being ushered out of the small but clinically precise kitchenette , and invited to take a seat on one of the chesterfields as he placed a tray containing two bone-china coffee-mugs , milk and sugar on the glass-topped table between them . |
| 22 | He Anglicized his name and a few years later he was being described as an accountant or merchant 's clerk ; a subsequent attempt to establish himself as a commission agent apparently failed . |
| 23 | Almost two centuries later it was being proposed that in much the same way every Spanish ambassador should have assigned to him a son or younger brother " to assist him as a comrade in his work " , be instructed in the conduct of embassy business and handle matters the ambassador himself could not spare time for , with the implication that he might well succeed to the post if it fell vacant . |
| 24 | Well that night he walked out I was was n't I ? |
| 25 | I had nowhere else to go and now I was being carried along — that ship bound for wrecking . |
| 26 | But now she was being drawn , as it were unwillingly , into his world which although intellectual — abstract , even — was , she was discovering , informed by deep , profound passion . |
| 27 | And now she was being carried along by the impetus of those two decisions . |
| 28 | Now she was being carried off . |
| 29 | Now she was being over-dramatic . |
| 30 | How the printers had got hold of her photograph she did not know , but they had , and now it was being sold all over London , along with ones of Lillie Langtry and other noted belles . |