Example sentences of "and [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Victor and Anna were fishing ; they 'd just caught something and were shouting to us . |
| 2 | ‘ Fortunately they lost a ball and were looking for it when they spotted the baby wrapped in a towel , ’ he said . |
| 3 | ‘ I do remember in Madrid , there was a crowd of teens , and I could see they knew her and were looking at her . |
| 4 | Three young men had got out and were looking at them . |
| 5 | As Mrs Robson said , people had taken to war like they did to life : they had accepted it and were living with it and with all the things it did to them ; but why did them up top have to go and stop the flower trains coming from Cornwall ? |
| 6 | Even the tiles concurred , for now the arrows had all flipped over and were pointing at him , pointing out the guilty party , the incompetent official , the unworthy son . |
| 7 | He and Nell were agreeing that after the scene the actors would leave again ( all except Giles-the-murderer ) , even though they did n't like being banished all the time and were complaining about it . |
| 8 | The Blox had run the whisker pole to maximum height on its track , suspended it from the main halyard , and were swinging on it from the pulpit far out over the harbour and letting go . |
| 9 | All these governments , despite what they were saying or had said previously in public , considered the abduction of their citizens as a political act and were negotiating over it . |
| 10 | He towered over his foes , and was flailing at them two-handed . |
| 11 | So I walked down to the sea and before long , I was at the ship and was swimming round it . |
| 12 | However , the waiter in the Piazza del Campo had taken Hugh 's camera off their table and was waving to them to sit closer . |
| 13 | The Collector had pulled a grey handkerchief from his pocket to mop his brow and was gazing at it with pleasure , thinking again that he was a simple man at heart . |
| 14 | Another dragon had peeled off from the circling dots overhead and was gliding towards them . |
| 15 | At the question , her head jerked up and she saw that Vitor had awakened from his nap and was frowning at her . |
| 16 | His father had put down his newspaper and was looking at her , too . |
| 17 | One of the social workers had come into the office and was looking at me very strangely . |
| 18 | He could see that Midge had turned her head and was looking at him . |
| 19 | But at least he recognized this now and was looking into it . |
| 20 | She had her back to the entrance of the garden and was looking across it at a small orchard whose fruit never found its way to the rector 's table , always being pilfered by the small street arabs of the district . |
| 21 | I had picked up a box of letters and was glancing at them , when Frankenstein returned from above and caught me . |
| 22 | ( It seemed Annunciata had fallen in love with one of the Papal Guard and was pining for him . ) |
| 23 | A second policeman had cut the civilian loose and was tending to him . |
| 24 | All the children , except Millie , scrambled from the room : she had staggered over to a side wall and was leaning against it , her hands hanging by her side , her mouth wide open to let her gasping breath free . |
| 25 | Now she had pulled up outside the village shop and was yelling to them to bring her out an ice-cream . |
| 26 | Nigel was n't very well and was asking for me . |
| 27 | Witcher 's murderer had emerged from the spaceship and was walking towards them . |
| 28 | Then they ran and they ran , but when they looked back , Baba Yaga had managed to burst her way out of the oven , and was running after them , calling out , " Hoo ! |
| 29 | The bad news was that Alex had a gun and was shooting at him . |
| 30 | He then noticed Mrs Wilks at the telephone box and , in his rear-view mirror , he saw that the grey saloon car had pulled on to the hard shoulder and was heading towards her . |