Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were eating and there was always the chance when this happened that they might put something into the Cages for the eagles . |
| 2 | I think Steve you were you were suggesting that it was only the G three T one . |
| 3 | Matza would clearly be wrong , on the other hand , if he were implying that it was inherently impossible for a corrective stance to acknowledge the ‘ patent tenability and durability of deviant enterprise ’ . |
| 4 | A mere two hundred miles from Washington had brought them into a different season although it was obviously the first hint of real autumn in New York : around them others were hurrying because they were too thinly dressed or tugging at coats and gloves that were unfamiliar and awkward after half a year at the back of the closet . |
| 5 | She might be but er she 'd got the same red skirt on as she had she were wearing when we were there ! |
| 6 | Darren said you know the girls in the were saying that you were n't well , how was you and one of these days . |
| 7 | that 's another story with a an unusual ending cos I 'd have thought when you were saying that he was n't that he did n't give them the |
| 8 | were were saying that he was only God from his baptism to Not on the cross , before the cross . |
| 9 | The children knew that the little bunnies were coming and they were so careful of the mother when they fed her with lettuce and cabbage . |
| 10 | The boys were bemoaning that they were not there , too . |
| 11 | The analyses of the multiple choice versions suggest strongly that many pupils were guessing and it is only the non-multiple choice versions which are reported here . |
| 12 | For a month or so it looked as if he had succeeded in defusing the time bomb , but soon Catholic leaders were arguing that nothing was really changing . |
| 13 | ‘ You mean you were sitting where you are now and you told the glass to topple over and it did ? ’ |
| 14 | In 1752 the tailors were claiming that it was not and that the norm in most " handicraft trades " was from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m . |
| 15 | Just in ease you were thinking that there was nevertheless a basic difference between you and that bacterium ( not to mention the cat ) , there are two types of important complicated molecules shared by all of our planet 's lifeforms : nucleic acids and proteins . |
| 16 | I was so caught up in what I was seeing that it was only when I reached the top of the close where they lived that I started to think again about what I was doing there , and it was then that my feelings of fear started . |
| 17 | I was struggling and I was n't going anywhere . |
| 18 | A blackbird was singing and it was very quiet and peaceful in the Park . |
| 19 | Well Peter I sa la one night last week oh it was the week before I was going up past and this fella was walking and he was fucking staggering and he was going on the road and Peter 's came back and fucking him . |
| 20 | When Sophie did these vaccinations in the pet shop Mr Miller held each patient so firmly and expertly that the recipient hardly noticed was was happening until it was over , but in the surgery it was sometimes traumatic . |
| 21 | Not a lot was happening and I was really tired so I decided to go to bed . |
| 22 | Something was happening and it was so pleasurable she did n't want it to fade . |
| 23 | ‘ I would n't know he was sulking if he was n't there , would I ? ’ said Constance . |
| 24 | It was made clear to a friend of mine who was dying that he was not wanted on the ward , not through words but by the minimum care he was given after an unsuccessful operation and the refusal of any doctor to speak to him . |
| 25 | At first , we thought everyone else was booming while we were down in the dumps , but from talking to other businessmen you realise that everyone is suffering the same . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I think it 's all right , ’ responded Floy , warily , but even as he spoke he was wondering whether it was all right , and whether they might n't be better simply to walk back through the forest and on to the road . |
| 27 | I have put a wee bit of weight on , so I was wondering if it was maybe |
| 28 | I knew I was lying but there was n't anything I could do about it . |
| 29 | I just like , I just like , I know places , like I was told when I was meeting the girls yesterday , I did n't know what road I was going on I was just telling like , people names of the pubs and luckily this , like , bloke behind me getting on the bus , said oh you need a like , a seventy P or something and that 's when I knew where I was going and everyone 's like telling me where to get off , everyone gestures to me . |
| 30 | Back down the beach , the Big Wheel was turning and there were even queues waiting to get on . |