Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [subord] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it was raining when they came . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Tomorrow they 'll try and put up a sign to ask anyone who was passing if they saw the accident , yeah ? |
| 4 | He told himself that he had little to fear ; but he was sweating as they made their way into the city . |
| 5 | He was wondering if they 'd found it . |
| 6 | It was going as they had planned . |
| 7 | Maggie looked down and saw it moving at some speed ; dust flung up in a stream behind it and it was waiting as they taxied to a halt . |
| 8 | ‘ The only way to find out would be to get the police to check it against the one he was wearing when they found him . ’ |
| 9 | I 'm wearing a blue prison-issue shirt — open-neck , of course — and the jeans I was wearing when they arrested me . |
| 10 | Dawn was breaking when they reached Camborne and Celia stirred a little . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't know about you , ’ the reporter was saying as they walked across the cool marble-floored lobby of the large office building and out into the hot , brilliant midday sunshine of Fenchurch Street , ‘ but I 'd practically sell my soul for a really icy cold vodka and tonic . |
| 12 | Cos , Claire was saying when they went , they went , they 'd been to Wales , France , and Scotland while they 've been here he said , . |
| 13 | He was standing where they had left him , a long way back now , gazing after them . |
| 14 | Byrne reckons they 've been playing brill recently and are just waiting for a chance like this — but he was talking before they got turned over 0–3 by the makems last night . |
| 15 | Sue was talking as they went , describing the scene , and Kathleen realised they were on air live again . |
| 16 | I was hoping when they got that link road through they might connect up , but I do n't suppose it , sort of roads got ta put parking towards the long piece of |
| 17 | Despite the lateness of the hour , the phone was ringing when they got in . |
| 18 | The telephone was ringing as they approached the house . |
| 19 | The second came recently at Newlands , the imposing Cape Town stadium — at least , it was imposing till they tore out large bits to install even more corporate hospitality guzzlers — where by their second-half performance they imposed themselves on South Africa and crossed the final frontier of world rugby at a surging gallop . |
| 20 | Charlie was chuckling as they left the cottage . |
| 21 | Major Calder was chuckling as they walked across the Upper Castle Yard . |
| 22 | The following day I asked the young women of an all-girls ' school I was visiting if they had seen her , and what they thought . |
| 23 | ‘ You mean , you think that 's where she was working when they met ? ’ |
| 24 | But he was smiling as they helped him out of the herbaceous border . |
| 25 | She was smiling when they reached her , apparently unconcerned by the blood . |
| 26 | There was clapping when they had finished , and mass progressed with us singing well . |