Example sentences of "was [v-ing] be " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But she was n't seeing the chimney pots or the river ; what she was seeing were the clothes in her wardrobe , those beautiful clothes . |
| 2 | What I was seeing was surely the opposite of what was actually happening . |
| 3 | When I looked in the mirror and told myself , first , ‘ that ca n't be me ’ , and later , ‘ that wo n't be me ’ , what I was seeing was a woman . |
| 4 | Possibly what I was seeing was not Birmingham but our urban and industrial civilisation . |
| 5 | She was resting be thankful for Judith Chalmers |
| 6 | The show that Miss Thorne was producing was an adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens . |
| 7 | The yarn I was using was cotton , a double knitting weight and not the best for cabling at any time and I did need to have cables , since I had sketched them into my design . |
| 8 | The room she was using was at the back of the house , and as she got up and walked over to the window to look out she could see a panorama of fields lying lush and green under a cloudless May sky . |
| 9 | The mosquito net I was using was less than perfect and my limbs touched the net at night , so the mosquitoes lined up on the net and bit me through it . |
| 10 | The words he was using were n't English . |
| 11 | But this year it was much better because they 'd let them all in because it was raining were n't it ? |
| 12 | What the girl was suggesting was probably impossible , but it seems the logistics were never checked . |
| 13 | Er what we as I was putting was suggesting was in terms of the key diagram and the structure plan we would show it as a single arrow . |
| 14 | She was learning something new every day , and David was enjoying being the teacher just as much as Jenny loved being the pupil . |
| 15 | And er I well remember on one occasion in the course of my analysis with Anna Freud I had the uncanny feeling , well this was more than an uncanny feeling , I think it was the reality , I touched the superego of Sigmund Freud because at one point I said something in my analysis which implied that her father , for instance , might have some interest in religion and Anna Freud flared up and what I felt was flaring was her superego and this was the superego she had got by identification with her father . |
| 16 | When , for example , I discovered that 90 per cent of those attending a workshop did not become Moonies , it seemed clear that any brainwashing techniques that the movement was employing were , to say the least , not very efficient . |
| 17 | What he was denying was their ability to achieve the outcomes to which the opportunities for mutually advantageous trade clearly pointed . |
| 18 | But what he was protecting was not her at all . |
| 19 | I felt what was happening was we were going not in the direction of addition , but of total change . |
| 20 | I had no idea that what was happening was my body trying to bring itself up to a natural weight rather than the unnatural , low one that I kept it at . |
| 21 | They pretended that what was happening was not happening , and if it were to happen , it would certainly never happen to the likes of them . |
| 22 | What was happening was that the broomstick was swooping up into the sky , now dotted with stars , and that Carol was astride it , just like a witch in a fairy-tale . |
| 23 | But all that was happening was , the overflow pipe from the Koi quarters was partially blocked : this meant that an abnormally high head of water was building up in the main pool , bringing the level above the sealed junction between liner and blockwork . |
| 24 | And what was happening was , I was dripping sweat into it and rusting bits and shorting the battery . |
| 25 | What was happening was this . |
| 26 | What was happening was rather different . |
| 27 | Now that meant that there was massively increasing pressure on China 's land , and there was growing parcelization of the land and what was happening was that peasant families would of very often er produce two or three sons |
| 28 | One of the few to grasp what was happening was Lieutenant-Colonel Laurens Van der Post , the South African writer who had been a POW and who spoke Dutch . |
| 29 | Barbara Coleman was saying something about the former beauty of the garden and its decline , but wondering aloud whether it was fair to say decline because what was happening was that the garden was returning to nature , and further wondering whether it was really and truly nature because some of the plants were not native to the region and did not entirely belong there , and then wondering whether that was not a strange remark to come from one who had made Provence her home for so long that she felt quite a part of the landscape . |
| 30 | And this Fulham woman who was administering arsenic , only all that was happening was her hubby was getting a tingling in his feet . " |