Example sentences of "be [v-ing] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two-way radio Hitch had been using was still on the passenger seat . |
| 2 | A colleague working in the laboratory to which Dr Sasaki had been walking was dead ; Dr Sasaki 's patient whom he had just left was also dead . |
| 3 | What had been happening was an assumption of power on the part of the Vietminh and the demonstration that a communist party could seize the opportunity to capitalize on the power of nationalism at a moment of unparalleled opportunity . |
| 4 | but hopefully it wo n't be the so what you 're saying was you you 'd recommend it to us , yeah plan this is the way we do our business , by recommendations okay . |
| 5 | I the time on the , think what they 're saying was trying to act . |
| 6 | The room just along the corridor from where the Marshal had been waiting was stuffy and fetid with the smell of old unwashed clothing and mothballs . |
| 7 | We did , of course , over the years of working closely together come to have some very frank exchanges , but the afternoon I am recalling was still early in our relationship and I can not see even Miss Kenton having been so forward . |
| 8 | What do you think that disk you are holding was ? |
| 9 | Either way , everything that had been beginning was now ending , ebbing away without hope . |
| 10 | The one to whom I had been speaking was shivering audibly . |
| 11 | She said she occasionally felt that a job she could have been doing was being done by someone else leaving her less than fully occupied , but as her case load increased this feeling appeared to lessen . |
| 12 | What Hollywood had been doing was living off its wits and trying to survive as best it could but it now responded to this challenge not necessarily by taking Dr Dale 's ‘ entire world ’ as its range but at least by ensuring that there were values in its films . |
| 13 | What she 'd been doing was missing breakfasts and lunches and dinners in an effort to accommodate Silvia 's erratic time-keeping — and still failing to do the stipulated six hours a day , she thought to herself with a dart of misery . |
| 14 | They , they , what they 'd been doing was shooting them over and they 'd just had n't been exploded , they said dud shell or something . |
| 15 | All the tension Gascoigne had been suffering was suddenly released , and he celebrated by sprinting to the sidelines . |
| 16 | After all , what he seemed to be suggesting was that a woman with her not inconsiderable sex drive might have been expected , long ago , to have found a man to satisfy it . |
| 17 | What seemed to be happening was the spread of population growth out from the major urban centres where it had occurred in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries progressively to the more rural periphery , leaving a population loss in its wake . |
| 18 | As Benn 's frustration indicates , the ‘ public good ’ which the BBC considered itself to be serving was not necessarily the same as that defined by government . |
| 19 | But in what mood she would be listening was not so certain , considering everything that had happened . |
| 20 | The further question of where now theology ought to be going was one he was less equipped to tackle . |
| 21 | Tootal 's is around 35 per cent higher than the group would like , and an interest charge that should be declining was a fifth higher than last year . |
| 22 | All Kevin Rowland seemed to be saying was that he had something to say . |
| 23 | What the Leeds manager appeared to be saying was that , while it was a matter of opinion whether Mr Midgley used his discretion correctly , he was glad to see a referee not sticking rigidly to the letter of the law . |
| 24 | What most of the practitioners seemed to be saying was that the satisfactions of practice lay in ‘ helping people ’ , whatever the problem , whereas the frustrations lay in their inability to exercise their technical skills more fully because of the pressure of time . |
| 25 | But by then I might have children and all I would be saying was ‘ Sit still ’ , or ‘ Do n't eat with your fingers ’ , or ‘ Eat up all your peas . ’ |
| 26 | Well no , no what I 'm saying was , the fifteen seaters here you see but I ca n't , I sha n't be put the petrol in for the both shall I ? clean tomorrow night . |
| 27 | Not least , the CIA was induced to help before it realized that the man with whom it would be dealing was one it had already discarded . |
| 28 | But what he seemed to be sensing was that the boy was dangerous . |
| 29 | If the item for which you are claiming was sent within the UK , then please try and send the claim form in to your Customer Care Unit within one month of sending the item . |
| 30 | What we were seeing was simply a ‘ rationalisation ’ of the collection , a ‘ refining process . ’ |