Example sentences of "[prep] [det] was [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And all I could remember and all the the only thing I can remember about that was running after the car with . |
| 2 | They shared a common aim , however , for each was trying to keep the standard of soldierly behaviour up to at least that of an acceptable minimum . |
| 3 | Oh somebody took all our lovely parking ticket display off that was keeping the tas tax disk up and replaced it with black tape . |
| 4 | The extraordinary thing was that the man who was begging me to go and tell the world about this was expecting at any moment to hear that he had been appointed to one of the most senior jobs in the Iraqi government . |
| 5 | Actually , the speaker that was talking about this was suggesting we give them an enormous amount of real tangible assets , er without it costing us anything . |
| 6 | The next thing he recalled after that was waking up in hospital and this man with bandaged fingers in the next bed rambling on about a duffle-coat and how he 'd been bitten by a wolf . |
| 7 | In his original paper Barro ( 1977a ) used annual data for the US covering the period from 1941 to 1973 and , in contrast to Lucas ( 1973 ) , who after all was considering a much larger number of countries , Barro investigated the process determining monetary growth in some detail . |
| 8 | And , them will survive there , but during er the Winter , starting October , you could see the face of the plantation of that was facing the sea , it all scorched up towards the end of O of er December . |
| 9 | Until Wednesday , the worst manifestation of that was warning young Members that they would not get promoted if they did not do what they were told . |
| 10 | The proof of that was winning the RAC . ’ |
| 11 | Directly below this was Halling field and the Vicarage lane . |
| 12 | One element of this was teaching English as a Second Language ( ESL ) to ethnic minority workers but the two-way nature of communication was recognised in the accompanying training for management , training staff and trades unionists . |
| 13 | Oh yes , one of the , one of the surprises of this was discovering that in fact one of the people who knew Florence Kelly and indeed worked for her for a while , and who herself set up a minimum wage board in Washington , in the District of Columbia , is indeed still alive , and has very powerful memories of , of both the people and the activities of the movement . |
| 14 | None of this was helping . |
| 15 | She was almost choking with despair , seeing that none of this was making a whisker of difference . |
| 16 | All of this was happening alongside the steady decline of the Luftwaffe which did not enjoy our operational tour scheme and rest periods . |
| 17 | One of these was Getting Involved . |
| 18 | Six patients had had previous infections and each of these was drinking heavily . |
| 19 | The best of these was changing the punctuation in a sentence in your head , seeing how you might shift its meaning by putting a comma in different places . |
| 20 | Just over the edge of the cliff the most wonderful flower of all was growing , roots and leaves out of reach on the rocky perpendicular , but the blue spangle of its bloom poking up invitingly at the jagged rim of the cliff . |
| 21 | But worst of all was finding that she disliked fashion-show modelling . |
| 22 | Least respectable of all was moneylending . |
| 23 | Altogether , then , we can say the tune is predictable , not in the sense that without knowing it we are sure exactly what is coming next but in the sense that when we hear the next phrase , our reaction is , ‘ yes , I thought something like that was coming ’ . |
| 24 | Airdrie and Falkirk clashed in the First Division 's match of the day last Saturday , the home side going ahead through a scrambled goal by Andy Smith in the twenty sixth minute , and it looked like that was going to be enough for two points . |
| 25 | Airdrie and Falkirk clashed in the First Division 's match of the day last Saturday , the home side going ahead through a scrambled goal by Andy Smith in the twenty sixth minute , and it looked like that was going to be enough for two points . |
| 26 | I should have guessed that something like this was going on . |
| 27 | I did n't think anythink like this was going to happen . ’ |
| 28 | We went off to go see Husbands And Wives , because one of the actresses in that was going to be in the film , someone I was n't that keen on . |
| 29 | She says the nearest thing she 's done to this was working in a scouts ' gang show . |
| 30 | The key to this was finding a Chairman . |