Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [conj] [pron] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though her heart was thumping as it had then , no one but herself would ever know it . |
| 2 | But for once he believed that he was seeing as he had striven all his life to see … |
| 3 | And inside her an unbearable excitement was building as they had moved towards that luminous moment when the two of them would finally be one . |
| 4 | Lucy was weeping as she had been that afternoon . |
| 5 | His thick hair was greying but he had not given up on red baseball shoes , sleeveless T-shirts or what he called his ‘ cosmopolitan Lancashire accent , half scouse , half Lancashire ’ . |
| 6 | She had dreamt of this moment , fantasised it in her mind so many lonely dark nights , and now it was happening and nothing had prepared her for this self-destruction . |
| 7 | There would have been no action and there 'd have been a nice plan on the table and I sincerely believe that but for general management we would have lost the opportunity to ( a ) have got the money , and ( b ) got the clinic built before people could actually realise what was happening and there 's been other instances of that . |
| 8 | It was emptying but it 's started filling up again . |
| 9 | I believe now the driver — I did n't see who it was — was checking that I had left the pub . |
| 10 | I was explaining that we had fallen in need of a housekeeper and an under-butler at one and the same time and Miss Kenton had arrived — with unusually good references , I recall — to take up the former post . |
| 11 | My aunt was explaining that she had come up to visit me . |
| 12 | Neither of us has talked about it and I had not said I was writing until I have now started , but your father says he lay awake nearly all night thinking about it . |
| 13 | And I was looking and they 'd got red , black in one window . |
| 14 | Well I know the night Lindsey was smoking and she had or something but smelt the smoke on her breath and he got the belt and he gave her a belt and I lay in bed Kay and I cried |
| 15 | Squiffy everywhere and erm that night the evening activity was tobogganing and we 'd just finished all this wine . |
| 16 | ‘ I was wondering whether you 'd arranged to meet her for a talk — to break the news to her ? ’ |
| 17 | I was wondering whether you had an aspirin or something that would help ? |
| 18 | ‘ I was wondering whether he 'd received a phone call , ’ explained Owen . |
| 19 | He was wondering if they 'd found it . |
| 20 | Perhaps she was wondering if someone had remembered to switch the electric blanket on . |
| 21 | Then , just when I was wondering if there had been some mistake , a man came up full of apologies , ‘ I 'm so sorry , ’ he said . |
| 22 | I was thinking of sticking some pages on the World Wide Web for this great team and was wondering if anyone has done this already . |
| 23 | But then an instant later she was wondering if she 'd imagined it , as Janice turned to beam a warm , glowing smile at Jake . |
| 24 | I was wondering if you 'd heard anything from Doctor ? |
| 25 | I was wondering if you have , or know where I can get , an instruction book . |
| 26 | But the army said it was investigating whether he had a grenade when he was shot . |
| 27 | The treatment meted out was degrading and she had hated the middle classes ever after . |
| 28 | He was celebrating because he 'd just had a . |
| 29 | " Nowhere , " she said , but her mother always knew when she was lying because she had n't been a bad liar in her time herself , and it took one to know one . |
| 30 | Anna was so startled by his perception and directness that she said , ‘ I was worrying that you had got the wrong impression , that you — ’ She stopped , silenced by loyalty . |