Example sentences of "he [was/were] [v-ing] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd probably never been to Brixton before — I could tell that from the way he was sinking down in the back of Armstrong the farther along Effra Road we got . |
| 2 | It occurred to him as he was crashing about in the cupboard among his own old mackintoshes , tennis racquets , gum boots , and broken picture frames that he might be doing the wrong thing . |
| 3 | Ronnie , 54 , hit the headlines when he thumped the mayor in the face after his civic car ran over Christmas lights he was stringing up in the centre of Frome , Somerset . |
| 4 | Clarissa said she was glad she had n't known he was walking about in the open . |
| 5 | A few minutes later he was jerking around in the grip of an atrocious dream , and she woke him up . |