Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [coord] [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People perceive the world as though it were guiding and constraining them . |
| 2 | And why did Rose seem to sag wearily , as though it were tired and feeling its age ? |
| 3 | The men deny taking nude pictures of the girls while they themselves were naked and showing them to the children 's mother . |
| 4 | The goals of its ambulatory care initiative were to improve access — for example , by maximising the hours when clinics were open and linking them closely to back up services in the hospitals , increasing the comprehensiveness of care on offer , improving continuity ( by linking regular attenders to an identified primary care team ) , and making the management of the clinics more autonomous and more accountable . |
| 5 | Basically , my mother did n't know how to show me and my two sisters love and she was immensely critical of us , telling us we were ugly and undermining our self-esteem . |
| 6 | Simone Thiroux , the Canadian student so enamoured of Modigliani , was still shadowing him ; by now she was pregnant and claiming he was the father . |
| 7 | As long as she was alive and working my reputation could be destroyed at any time . |
| 8 | He was used to her going through his pockets while he was asleep and taking what she could . |
| 9 | And how , come to think of it , was Henry going to get him to absorb the stuff , short of creeping up on him while he was asleep and forcing it down his throat or up his arse ? |
| 10 | I was upset and taking it out on you . |
| 11 | Coo that was creaking and twisting I thought ah |
| 12 | It was dark and getting someone 's attention was n't easy . |
| 13 | He had that irritating manner of believing all was well and trusting everyone completely . |
| 14 | Tom was awake and watching her . |
| 15 | He was lovely but watching him in that living room somehow said it all . |