Example sentences of "[noun sg] [v-ing] [coord] [pron] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was told there was an acting scholarship going and I was broke so I took an audition and by a marvellous chance , won the scholarship . |
| 2 | And we did n't know we could see her and we were looking out the window going and he was there looking , put his sunglasses on to see . |
| 3 | ‘ I was terribly upset about my husband dying and I was n't 100 per cent . |
| 4 | But then you got three or four hundred a day coming and it was a little over-crowded . |
| 5 | If they were going along trying to open shop doors , they could go in as a suspected person loitering but it was n't looked upon very favourably by the courts . |
| 6 | ‘ Just what 're you getting at , young Angel ? ’ he asked , narrowing his eyes the same way he did when he had a cigarette going and he was looking in a petrol tank . |
| 7 | ‘ Immediately after the crash I could n't feel the baby moving and he was normally a quite active baby , ’ she said . |
| 8 | ‘ Immediately after the crash I could n't feel the baby moving and he was normally a quite active baby . ’ |
| 9 | A police spokesman said last night that Mr Kelsey 's condition was not life threatening and he was likely to be discharged from hospital today . |
| 10 | An attempt to burn down a warehouse at Stockport was followed by rumours of secret gatherings , armings and oath taking and there was certainly talk of a general rising . |
| 11 | Jack 's hobby was model making and he was currently engaged in a vast and ambitious project . |
| 12 | This method is called density slicing and it was the technique used in the generation of the colour image shown on the front cover of this book . |
| 13 | Probably dead , you know and his nappy stinking and he was blowing it ! |