Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [was/were] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realized I was getting extremely slushy , and tried firmly to pull myself together . |
| 2 | I wondered what he wanted , so I did it ; and in the interval of the rehearsal he came and said he was suffering from nervous shock because the moment I started he realized I was doing exactly the contrary of all the things he had taught the orchestra . |
| 3 | I realised I was getting too old . |
| 4 | I realised I was missing out on things like girls and parties . |
| 5 | Of the two passengers , both women , one had turned and given them a glare , the other pretended nothing was going on . |
| 6 | Then , to my bafflement , I found I was catching up . |
| 7 | Things were fine for a year or two , until I found I was becoming rather reluctant to weed . |
| 8 | To her intense chagrin she found she was blushing deeply . |
| 9 | And suddenly , as an uproar began in her , Azor was forgotten , and she jerked to stand upright , and found she was looking straight up into a pair of dark smouldering eyes . |
| 10 | A little startled , she looked up , and was more startled because Ven was much closer than she had thought , and she found she was staring straight into a pair of inscrutable and penetrating dark eyes . |
| 11 | Jessamy found she was breathing rather heavily , and she could feel her skin growing hot with colour . |
| 12 | She found she was breathing deeply , almost gasping . |
| 13 | As she started back across the clearing , she found she was walking faster and faster all the time . |
| 14 | Theda pushed through the trees and found she was coming out into the road that ran through Switham Thicket . |
| 15 | Julie dropped the hammer and found she was sobbing uncontrollably . |
| 16 | She found she was talking in as low a voice as Finn , feeling there was something which she did not wish to disturb . |
| 17 | An Age Concern report featuring three such schemes in Liverpool , Leicestershire and Leeds found they were proving very successful , often leading to a general improvement in the relationship between carer and cared for . |
| 18 | As he finished shaving he found he was grinning broadly at his reflection in the mirror ; in that jungle dawn he knew he was as happy as he had ever been in his life . |
| 19 | Henry found he was grinning foolishly . |
| 20 | Here Mr Malik stepped back with a flourish , and Robert found he was walking out in front of the whole school , his heart thumping , his mind a complete blank . |
| 21 | It was essential to recruit them over there before they arrived ; if they found it was getting too expensive to advertise and recruit well that was that . ’ |
| 22 | But he found it was taking up more and more time : ‘ It had to be double or quits , ’ he said . |
| 23 | I actually believed I was thinking clearly as I plotted ways of fleeing the country before having to pay the thousands of pounds I appeared to owe . |
| 24 | Jezrael 's body arched languorously ; her dream-self believed she was nestling closer to the Magyar . |
| 25 | A silver fish-hook tangled in his curls , dangled by Izzie , and when he woke she was tugging gently on his hair . |
| 26 | And she came she was coming home from hospital and do you know my mother never had a little piece of bread to give to her when she brought her home . |
| 27 | There were moments when Henry thought she would not turn up for the funeral , so magnificent was she about the whole thing , but as the date approached he noticed she was wearing more and more black jewellery , black scarves , capes , cloaks and jerseys , stockings , blouses and hats . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's more than likely I just imagined something was going on behind the scenes . |
| 29 | I am sure the silly old bastard had suffered a blow to the head and believed he was playing out a role from some heroic romance . |
| 30 | Mr McNeil said yesterday that although the region would co-operate fully with the CRE investigation as it was legally required to do , he believed it was focusing too narrowly on the region 's assessment procedures . |