Example sentences of "[vb past] was [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The basic problem he encountered was getting across why his own complete immaterialism was not itself more overtly and explicitly sceptical than the standard view that there exist both material bodies and incorporeal minds or spirits . |
| 2 | ‘ How do you like your egg ? ’ asked Lydia , determined to be pleasant since the one thing more disagreeable than staying with someone you detested was staying with someone who detested you too . |
| 3 | The allegations against Lacayo were seen as the latest attempt by right-wing elements in the ruling 14-party ruling coalition ( still known as the National Opposition Union , UNO ) to discredit the government , which it claimed was collaborating on security and economic matters with the left-wing Sandinista National Liberation Front ( FSLN ) , the main opposition party [ see p. 38957 ] . |
| 4 | One Street development Sue loved was working in Alf 's grocery shop with her long-term adversary , The Street 's pint-sized puritan Ivy Brennan , played by Sue 's great pal Lynne Perrie . |
| 5 | Her heart went out to Antoinette Gebrec , as yet happily ignorant of the fate of her son , and to Philippe Bonard , whose long-cherished dream had turned to a nightmare , while the man they both loved was lying in a broken , bloody heap at the foot of the cliff . |
| 6 | ‘ He said what I needed was throwing on the floor and to be given a good seeing to , ’ she told the Norwich hearing . |
| 7 | They wanted to give the notebook to Chris Bonington who they thought was coming to Kazakhstan in July . |
| 8 | I thought I 'd better do all my jobs which I thought was going to be spread across the d the day . |
| 9 | Instead she pointed out what she thought was happening in the session and the need for all of them to look at the problems in a constructive way . |
| 10 | ''' That was exactly what the average person called on to make self-criticism thought : all that mattered was getting through the ritual humiliation , and then going for a drink . |
| 11 | What I saw was staggering for the line which passed through those three points apparently intersected three others — a standing stone , just off the Marlborough Road , a bi-section of two round barrows — the line passed cleanly through the narrow gap between them , and finally the most important of all — the west end of the West Kennet long barrow . |
| 12 | Huge scaly legs , moist , glistening , with some slimy covering that she instinctively knew was giving off the putrid smell . |
| 13 | at all , no sense of dedication , because the job which he knew was going to be his , before he met the this Simpson . |
| 14 | He was not afraid to be seen deep in conversation with a Samaritan woman whom he knew was cohabiting with another man after having gone through five husbands . |
| 15 | I heard about the first one pretty soon , the next night in fact , because everyone I knew was talking about the arrival of the new beauty . |
| 16 | His fancy had a strange tendency to wander to the river , which he knew was flowing through the great city ; and now he thought how black it was , and how deep it would look , reflecting the hosts of stars — and more than all , how steadily it rolled away to meet the sea ( 6 ) . |
| 17 | Commented Aileen Collins retrospectively , ‘ … our study of literature in no way reflected what we knew was happening in the world … ( we aspired ) to let in new voices , and essentially to jolt Canadians from their lethargy and narrow-mindedness . |
| 18 | I thought every breath that cat took was going to be her last . ’ |
| 19 | The , the last one that I bought was going to be easy , but oh . |
| 20 | ‘ Do you remember last year when your cousin Hamed was looking for a bride ? ’ |
| 21 | All I did was looking in the windows . |
| 22 | The first show we ever did was opening for Living Colour , and we 've just done a mini-tour with Adrian Belew 's band . |
| 23 | The last thing he remembered was reading at his counter . |
| 24 | And yet in the same lecture he had expressed his belief that the tradition of which he spoke was drawing to a close ; and , in the poem , the encounter with the familiar but only half-glimpsed figure is charged with a sense of transitoriness and loss : |
| 25 | In each case the sentence is true if the person who spoke was skipping at the time of the utterance . |
| 26 | They were mixing and mingling , her guests ; the young were speaking to the old , men were speaking to women , Left was speaking to Right , art unto science , and only a few impossible old dullards of the financial world had drifted together to talk about pay comparability and public sector borrowing and the GNP . |
| 27 | My one success is with Michael Treacher , who Killick said was working on the comparability report with Summerchild . |
| 28 | But one of the happiest jobs I ever had was working in a place called Lonsdale Sports . |
| 29 | To have to submit to having a part of one 's body removed while one slept was going to be bad . |
| 30 | Another lady that I met was suffering from the elephant man 's disease ; her husband had recently died and she was expecting a baby . |