Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But it 's like this … their church owns the property , an ’ it turned out there 's a heap o' genuine folk in the city end of the organisation , who 'd no idea what wuz goin' on out here . |
| 2 | Reason bein' , we did a complete sweep of the whole area outside the perimeter of the grounds , jes ' in case our man wuz lyin' up in the vicinity . |
| 3 | You couldn ’ even prophesy your own death , when it wuz standin' right in front of you . |
| 4 | By now we were careering round some Kentish country lanes near Swanley . |
| 5 | A band of children were careering about , playing tig . |
| 6 | Perhaps they were gazing up here quite absently and speculatively , as I did on Monday . |
| 7 | Even the hardened faggots of Manhattan ( I fancied ) were gazing down at us with concern from their lofts and condos and thinking — we 're pretty brazen , God knows , but these guys , they 'll queer the whole pitch . |
| 8 | Were those dark eyes that were gazing down at her really Guido 's ? |
| 9 | His blue eyes were gazing far away and his wife knew that he was thinking of that distant evening when he and Mrs Curdle had first met , on just such an April evening , many years ago . |
| 10 | Staff officers were galloping busily behind the lines where the battalion 's colours were bright in the dusk . |
| 11 | Along the edge of the plain the outriders that Burun had planted were galloping back to join the main body . |
| 12 | Swindon were galloping home alone against peterbro … the going was good … |
| 13 | Events were shaping up faster and worse than I could have expected . |
| 14 | This gave him a pang of disappointment ; however , in view of the providence they were enjoying in so many other respects , he did not allow the feeling to pierce him long . |
| 15 | Got to the other end and I think we were unloading in about an hour and a half or so . |
| 16 | The doves were fluttering upwards to the music , and his Maria Filippa — an unusual diva , wearing spectacles — with Pericle on her arm in a lace bonnet and button boots , was greeting him under the olives . |
| 17 | Already , statistics were catching up on them . |
| 18 | We told him that you had been out all night and that you were catching up on some sleep . |
| 19 | So they , the pursuers , were catching up somewhat . |
| 20 | The year 1973 came close to repeating the triumphs of 1972 but , as usual in FI , other cars were catching up with the Lotus , though not in qualifying , for 1973 was the year in which Ronnie Peterson notched an astonishing nine pole positions and a place on the front row in twelve of the season 's fifteen races , as against one and five for Emerson , Peterson finishing a mere three points behind Fittipaldi . |
| 21 | They were catching up with an interrupted past , not forestalling a proletarian future . |
| 22 | The social services managers were two or three years behind those in the NHS in developing contracts , although they were catching up fast . |
| 23 | The strains of the last fortnight were catching up with him , and he looked every one of his sixty-four years . |
| 24 | The initiative for the change was British : full-backs , working in tandem , were catching forwards offside so often that games were becoming boring and gates were going down . |
| 25 | ‘ I think I know what quality you were seeing when you engaged the last one , ’ Anna teased affectionately . |
| 26 | Rafelson , Bert Schneider and Steve Blauner had smart quarters and were seeing very substantial returns on Easy Rider and other films , and BBS was growing with it . |
| 27 | We were seeing how it was becoming more dangerous , violent , with the growing presence of guns amongst kids . |
| 28 | they were seeing how much more they could eat and take home . |
| 29 | Both have busy working lives and they realised they were seeing less and less of each other and spending their one day together , Sunday , in a daze . |
| 30 | Indeed , even by February 1989 when the first meetings with Jones took place , where Jones was claiming to see neutrons — a sure sign of fusion — Fleischmann and Pons were seeing only heat . |