Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marx had welcomed the industrialization and urbanization which was transforming traditionally agricultural Europe in his lifetime . |
| 2 | And when Zbo explained that Modi was coughing up blood they chased him away . |
| 3 | Very red and frothy , frothy colour blood , okay , supposing I had er damaged the lining of the stomach , or perhaps I 've had an ulcer that I 've perforated , and I was coughing up blood from the stomach what colour might that be ? |
| 4 | Teal Green was coughing up a lungful of smoke when the Base was plunged into darkness . |
| 5 | Elisabeth Danziger was coughing loudly . |
| 6 | At the far side of the church , old Mr Pugh , who had swallowed about half a kilo of compost , was coughing furiously . |
| 7 | Tuppe was coughing away like a good'n . |
| 8 | The man in the attic was coughing again . |
| 9 | I could do it , yeah , cos like my first night I did n't realise I was coughing so much but erm , her mum heard me , she said in the morning but |
| 10 | He was coughing so much |
| 11 | He was coughing so much that he made himself sick . |
| 12 | He was coughing violently , his stomach heaving against the foul taste of beck-water . |
| 13 | ‘ And what the hell were ye doin' when all this was goin' on ? ’ he demanded harshly . |
| 14 | The police raided the Crown in Dock'ead an' stopped the boxin' that was goin' on there , an' they nicked a lot o' street bookies who was there at the time . |
| 15 | … as I was goin' over , te' Cork and Kerry mountains … |
| 16 | Why did n't you tell me I was goin' too fast ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I was goin' ter tell yer about that but I thought you would n't be interested . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I was goin' ter call terday but it 's bin snowin' . ’ |
| 19 | I always reckoned 'er an' young Billy Sullivan was goin' ter get tergevver . |
| 20 | Anyway , she told me if I did n't go after it she was goin' ter chuck us out . |
| 21 | It finished 'is boxin'. 'E was goin' ter fight fer a title before 'e went in the army . ’ |
| 22 | I do n't think Conrad was latching on properly , but I must admit breastfeeding did confuse me . |
| 23 | Lisa 's heart was thumping strangely as he reached for his coat and quickly slipped it on . |
| 24 | She became aware that her heart was thumping rather hard , although she did n't know if it was from physical exertion , or the shock of suddenly seeing Julius again . |
| 25 | Her pulse was thumping away inside her ears and high up in her throat . |
| 26 | Her heart was thumping so loudly that she wondered for a fleeting second whether Scott could hear it . |
| 27 | Her heart was thumping so hard that she could feel the breath catch in her chest . |
| 28 | In 1544 and 1545 , one of the most attractive of the leading Scottish reformers — and a man certainly working on behalf of England — George Wishart , was preaching openly , with remarkably little difficulty ; only in the spring of 1546 was he finally apprehended by Beaton , and burned for heresy . |
| 29 | It was as if he said it not to me , but equally to everything around us ; as if she stood listening , in the dark shadows by the doors ; as if the telling of his past had reminded him of some great principle he was seeing freshly again . |
| 30 | A family line which had begun with a marriage of 1625 , seen good times and bad times , sent its bright young sons to London and married its daughters into many a Frome family was seeing here , in Sarah , its last torch-bearer . |