Example sentences of "[noun prp] and [was/were] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dana Gillespie : ‘ I 'd just come back from the States and was hanging around with a band called Ashton Gardner and Dyke . |
| 2 | It was as if they had read F. Scott Fitzgerald and were acting out Crazy Sunday . |
| 3 | It was just after Nixon fired Dick Helms and was dumping all over the Company to get us to take the rap for Watergate and Congress was hearing words like assassination and setting up committees and … like everybody was pissing into our bathtub and hoping to stir up a U-boat . |
| 4 | ‘ You see , Lewis , ’ began Morse , as the two strolled back to the front of the property , ‘ Kemp had grown tired of Sheila Williams and was starting out on a new conquest — the delectable Lucy Downes . |
| 5 | Jonathon now worked on model ships under the eye of Uncle Philip and was learning how to carve them directly from wood . |
| 6 | I was bored with Aubagne and was looking forward to Orange . |
| 7 | ‘ I found a flea market in Holborn and was walking around for three hours . |
| 8 | Jim had left , moved on to London and was heading up a new Rapid Response Unit there in connection with HEMS , the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service . |
| 9 | She had bought some cigarettes for John and was wondering when she could give them to him . |
| 10 | Now five years old , he went to school in Warminster and was trying hard to adopt a Dorset accent , having been teased about the snob way he talked . |
| 11 | They were on a school trip to Pembroke Dock in West Wales and were setting off on their last visit when the crash happened . |
| 12 | At the time , Goldman had granted put options to companies controlled by Robert Maxwell and was buying heavily in the market to be able to fulfil its obligations . |
| 13 | Parked in the multi storey car park in Guildon and were walking along and like there 's all this , you go down to the ground floor and then you 've got the first and second and er you can get to the first floor where it 's like the first floor the first floor is just above sort of street level |