Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [was/were] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly I was coming out but I was n't really aware of it . |
| 2 | Then you obviously had a you did say such a lot of in the Radio Times somewhere I was reading today about er colours you wear . |
| 3 | Suddenly I was climbing up the long ladder of the North pier , the rucksack being roped afterwards . |
| 4 | Naturally I was sleeping badly . |
| 5 | Perhaps I was luxuriating in |
| 6 | Perhaps I was showing too many teeth which could make me appear roguish and untrustworthy . |
| 7 | Perhaps I was saying too much . |
| 8 | Altrincham , although personally I was looking forward to the retreat as time for winding down ! |
| 9 | I had been asked to teach a course of lectures at the Teachers ’ College , which is the only place in NZ to run a speech therapy course ( run jointly with the university ) ; so I was staying on for an extra 4 weeks , while the others ( except Ned , who was also staying in Christchurch with his job ) headed for Auckland to fly home . |
| 10 | So I was trying not to talk . |
| 11 | So anyway , I did n't even hear anymore what he said after that , after he said this like so I was messing about with Graham |
| 12 | driveways , it was pouring down with rain one day so I was going up to meet her and we , I 'd got up there , I 've learnt now , I leave home at quarter past three if it 's raining |
| 13 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 14 | I did , so I was creeping up like this |
| 15 | I mean , we 've , I 've , there was a situation these are the roads he 's taking me around now , he had me reverse round the corner which was practically blind , could n't see what was round the corner , so I was edging round , and it was on a hill so I had to do it , every time I stopped I had to put the handbrake on so I did n't roll |
| 16 | I was tired , Thérèse said : so I was lying down for a bit . |
| 17 | So I was standing there and I thought to myself pretend I 'm looking at my watch and I 'm waiting for someone . |
| 18 | Something moved in Ruth , answering his words independently of her will ; suddenly she was looking sharply up into his face . |
| 19 | And suddenly she was hearing again the doctor 's words , ‘ and you had no … sisters , ’ and feeling the shock she had experienced then . |
| 20 | Then she all at once became aware that Ven was looking at her seriously , all mockery , however gentle , gone , and suddenly she was feeling quite breathless , and discovering that she needed to say something , and quite urgently , to get her over that breathless feeling . |
| 21 | Naturally she was looking forward to seeing Anna again , and it would be pleasant to have her company on Sunday . |
| 22 | Perhaps she was reading too much into — |
| 23 | Perhaps she was getting on a little too well without me . |
| 24 | Or perhaps she was falling apart already , she thought a little wildly , and she just had n't realised it . |
| 25 | Oh God , if Valerie had been shocked perhaps she was going too far ! |
| 26 | Again you , you never felt that you were , because you were doing that , you never had the feeling that perhaps you were becoming too much a part of management rather than er simply representing work or did you simply see it as part of your , your job to look after the incentive scheme in that way because it did er that was a part of representing the workforce ? |
| 27 | All along you were covering up . |
| 28 | But I always remember Ruth make it a desk , you see it only came and in she was sitting out there and this desk , all the pieces and parts were going everywhere . |
| 29 | The Maggot whooped , dragged the stick back and our earthwards wing lifted and suddenly we were screaming just above the palm trees , close to the tiled roofs and at a speed that seemed to be doubled because of our proximity to the ground . |
| 30 | So everything was coming in on different lines ? |