Example sentences of "[pron] was [v-ing] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was trundling out the obvious . ’ |
| 2 | Well I was looking out the other side cos I was trying to work out where Glynis lived . |
| 3 | Course , I was looking out the window and I know he took I picked it out and it I looked again , there 's another one in there , course she 's only getting out the bath put them in a bowl like I was ! |
| 4 | Instead I was looking down the quay to where a pathetically thin girl was walking beside a smartly dressed woman . |
| 5 | And then the whole thing swivelled round in my head , and I was looking down the same chimney from the top , and nothing was about to stop me falling down it . |
| 6 | I was acting out the role of the good , courageous patient as I saw it at the time , while Mr Lennox was no doubt pleased to find me co-operative , free from despair and above all , unemotional . |
| 7 | For appearances ' sake I maintained the fiction that I was setting up an independent enterprise in the EFL field . |
| 8 | Every Saturday morning , while I was setting up the barrow , Mr Salmon used to disappear off to the Whitechapel synagogue leaving his wife to run the shop . |
| 9 | ‘ When I was setting up the Fine Chemicals Manufacturing Organization [ FCMO ] in the early '80s , there was no doubt quality was the main way to compete more effectivey and raise performance . |
| 10 | At the time I was mucking out the byre stalls , and piling the manure on top of my big heap when I saw the lights go on in the house . |
| 11 | There I was strolling down the scrubby end of the Kings Road , mooching along . |
| 12 | At one point in 1987 I was bowling up the M6 talking to a colleague in London on my ‘ hands-off ’ Cellnet phone — it had a microphone in front of me on the visor . |
| 13 | On that occasion , I was moving down a long , straight road with wide meadows on either side of me . |
| 14 | I was flying out the next day and they changed my flight to the night before and I missed it . |
| 15 | Only a few weeks after returning from playing with polar bears in Spitsbergen , I was soaking up the sun in the Seychelles . |
| 16 | I was passing over a hill when Idris drove past me , hooting , and pointing to the valley where he was obviously going to wait for me . |
| 17 | As I was struggling down the yard with the fully laden bucket a few minutes later a neighbour , Mrs Woods , saw me . |
| 18 | I was bringing in a patron a day . ’ |
| 19 | One evening I was bringing in a basket of apples from the garden , when a voice behind me said , ‘ Ellen , is that you ? ’ |
| 20 | I admit I was sending up a silent prayer as we trotted towards the first fence , but I need n't have worried . |
| 21 | We could n't sense that , a few hundred feet above us up the ridge , David Simpson 's and Jane Lapiner 's house had shaken apart , that rocks had thundered down the cliff face opposite my house , that a mile to the north at the precise moment that we were walking through Jim 's house and I was spreading out the blueprints on the hood of my car to continue our conversation , an overturned electric coffee pot in the Petrolia store had already started a blaze that would finish off the store and our adjoining post office in about 45 minutes . |
| 22 | A week later I was called back to Downing Street by Margaret Thatcher and told that I was taking over the Department of Health and Social Security and also the question-and-answer session . |
| 23 | I mean as I said when I was filling in the questionnaire I was thinking well this , really this is my preference and you know I 'd much rather be in a job that allowed me some flexibility . |
| 24 | I was running up an unauthorised overdraft , too ; I 'd stopped opening statements ages before because they made my hand shake and my tummy wobble . |
| 25 | I say because I was running around a bit I think . |
| 26 | Except for a small diversion and nibble some bits of lamb when I was cutting up the meat lunchtime , and to try and serving of it . |
| 27 | I was giving up a great deal of my own time , I may say , just to supplement the inadequate teaching he got at Burleigh . |
| 28 | She said : ‘ I had just been saying that I was giving up the lotto , but my husband , Martin , encouraged me to keep trying . ’ |
| 29 | I was poring over a chart in my room , working out a passage from Foulness Island to Aldeburgh , in Suffolk , when my door half opened and Sir Edmund looked in . |
| 30 | The other day , one lunchtime in fact , I was walking up the Farringdon Road . |