Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [conj] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1 am happy to hear that Henry was drawing and trust he will be attentive to you in every way . |
| 2 | He was dying and implored you to agree to the match because he and Horatia 's father were such old friends . |
| 3 | Mick was short of them and I was deliberating whether to get them for him . |
| 4 | I located a couple of book reviews I had done on matters to do with the period , one about writers of the thirties , the other about the Mass Observation project , added a letter in which I wrote a little about the book I was writing and sent them off . |
| 5 | She was remembering and finding it painful , and Jenna 's gentle nature came to her rescue . |
| 6 | But he was grinning and called us over to join him . |
| 7 | Throughout the war , there were constant efforts to limit the devastation it was causing or to bring it to a halt altogether . |
| 8 | He crossed to where she was squatting and hauled her to her feet . |
| 9 | He took off the heavy overcoat he was wearing and laid it across the top of the filing cabinet . |
| 10 | Mrs Quigley was hyperventilating and giving me some very dirty looks indeed . |
| 11 | He also visited Lurgan and the late Mrs Sleator once related how , as a very small girl in Lurgan on that day in 1902 , she disregarded her mother 's instructions that she was not to leave home ( ‘ I am still obstinate ! ’ she confided ) , went to the Town Hall where the General was speaking and saw him there . |
| 12 | The crate-people took no notice of them but arranged their food to the left of them , erected a cross in front of them while their leader pulled an angled prop from behind the picture he was holding and positioned it in the pebbles to the right of the dedicated gathering . |
| 13 | It snatched one of the sticks that Philip was holding and dragged it to the far side of the feeding-place , barking . |
| 14 | Lucie threw down the cup he was holding and drove it into the mud with his foot . |
| 15 | ‘ I was bleeding and realised I 'd been hit . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ When you needed an extra pair of hands in a hurry so that you could get on with a job , Roger was always the first to drop what he was doing and help you . ’ |
| 17 | She had the appearance of a person interrupted in what she was doing and regarded them unsmilingly . |
| 18 | When I played , people who heard what I was doing and liked it recommended that I should get a Precision , which I eventually did , but I could n't seem to get enough of my own playing character to come through with it . |
| 19 | In both cases the creditor had left it to the debtor husband to deal with the surety , his wife , and had done nothing to satisfy itself that she understood what she was doing or to protect her from abuse by the debtor of the influence and reliance that would be likely to be present . |
| 20 | And so , unable either to believe in the significance of what he was doing or to regard it with indifference as an empty formality , all the time he was preparing for the sacrament he was conscious of a feeling of discomfort and shame in taking part in something he did not understand , which was therefore , an inner voice told him , deceitful and wrong of him . |
| 21 | That dust was billowing and choking them as they struggled to ascend . |
| 22 | The silence lengthened as Lucenzo surveyed her , and she knew intuitively that he was debating whether to pursue her or not , wondering if she was worth teasing any longer and perhaps forming some other devilish plan . |
| 23 | She noticed the new sweater Flavia was carrying and praised it generously . |
| 24 | But dust lay all around me , a matter of constant irritation to Marie Claire , and the servants ' principal task was fighting and dispersing it . |
| 25 | Poor old no even her daughter Cheryl was laughing so much that her stomach was hurting and tell her to shut up . |
| 26 | Miguel stood where she had left him , outlined against the star-studded sky , and there was something about the way he was standing that reminded her of someone else … |
| 27 | Seb arrived at the cottage as the half-gipsy girl was leaving and asked her what she had said to Anna . |
| 28 | as if she knew what Carrie was thinking and found it mildly amusing . |
| 29 | They 've had him from the Wednesday , was it the Wed er , no from the Saturday to the Wednesday cos she was working and they took him on to seaside somewhere and when come home , he 's having stitches in his head where he 'd fell , he hit it on the stone or summat and I said oh did he enjoy it apart from that , she said he was a swine last night , he was screaming and hitting me and she called her husband down from work , she could n't control him , said she should of smacked his arse and put him in the cot . |
| 30 | She was surprised to see the studio door open , he always closed the door when he was working and kept it locked when he was n't there . |