Example sentences of "[pron] was [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I was looking out through the door and you have n't got five minutes longer . |
| 2 | Larry Cummins recollected , ‘ I was looking out of the window while seated at my navigator 's table , and I saw a sizeable hole suddenly appear in the left wing . |
| 3 | One Sunday morning , when I was looking out of the window , I saw Mme Guérigny leave church and walk from the rue de Fleuve along the rue Victorie towards Bluot 's , and return with a box nicely wrapped and tied with gold string . |
| 4 | " I 'm afraid of what she 'll do , " the man says when I was looking in through the window , and then the other woman goes up to him and starts loving him . |
| 5 | Can I just ask a question to start with because I was messing around with the camera and was it that he ha that he had no private pension policies at all ? |
| 6 | That 's why I was messing about with the . |
| 7 | ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time . |
| 8 | I only explained I was listening in at the time . |
| 9 | I was dotting about behind the wicket . |
| 10 | Bedfield was the village I was living in at the time . |
| 11 | For this print , I was thinking back to the patterns of light and shade created by strong sunlight . ’ |
| 12 | I was flying back on the 9am British Airways shuttle from the EC Summit on Saturday morning . |
| 13 | There was also the night when I was buzzing round in the office car , making the routine late calls at the district police stations and ambulance headquarters in Cardiff , just before midnight . |
| 14 | Sue likes me … lots of people like me … when I was helping out at the meat counter the other week , Jim said we should go bowling one night . |
| 15 | It was a warm , sunny june day in Fontanellato and I was riding out into the country on my bicycle when another cyclist gave me the news . |
| 16 | Three days later I was limping back from the village and was about half a mile from home when I saw a movement in the hedge . |
| 17 | ‘ I was kneeling down on the beach beside a lake when I felt this appallingly painful tingling sensation in my knee . |
| 18 | The strangers ' faces were barely visible , but from ground level ( where I was leaning out of the tent ) I could see that three of them were wearing football boots . |
| 19 | I realized early on how much I was getting out of the callers and the fact that some of them seemed to get something out of me too increased my confidence in other areas of my life . |
| 20 | ‘ When we reached here , ’ he said , ‘ I was getting out of the cart and my hat fell to the ground . |
| 21 | At the beginning , although I felt that I wanted to get better , I was hanging on to the secure feeling that being ill brought . |
| 22 | I was hanging on to the ledge at the deep end , arms out in the crucifix position when I saw her come out of the ladies ’ changing rooms wearing a yellow and white striped one-piece . |
| 23 | I was hanging around at the back of the church because I wanted a word with the vicar . |
| 24 | The prints were n't too bad , considering that I was hanging out of the back window of the plane with just a thin safety belt between me and the farm land 200ft below . |
| 25 | Eric was sitting in the front looking absurdly English and in the back was an old man I was taking back to the mountains . |
| 26 | While all the posed pictures were being taken I was edging round among the columnists saying , " Please , give us a break , do n't put in that it happened at Drummonds . |
| 27 | My second thought , which did not occur to me until I was crawling back along the floor towards my bed , was that today was the day when I was due to Testify . |
| 28 | Says Harrison : ‘ I was thrashing about in the water with all my clothes on and ended up being dragged down . |
| 29 | As I was walking over to the piano I was thinking , ‘ Should I really be doing this ? ’ |
| 30 | I did all the usual stuff — I gave her some money and stuck her on a tube train to a night shelter , but while I was walking out of the tube station , I thought to myself , ‘ you complacent bitch ’ ’ you know . |