Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I was struggling and I was n't going anywhere . |
| 3 | A blackbird was singing and it was very quiet and peaceful in the Park . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Not a lot was happening and I was really tired so I decided to go to bed . |
| 7 | Something was happening and it was so pleasurable she did n't want it to fade . |
| 8 | ‘ I would n't know he was sulking if he was n't there , would I ? ’ said Constance . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | I have put a wee bit of weight on , so I was wondering if it was maybe |
| 13 | I knew I was lying but there was n't anything I could do about it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Back down the beach , the Big Wheel was turning and there were even queues waiting to get on . |
| 16 | The sexual revolution was beginning and it was very exciting to get away from home and enjoy yourself in a relatively guilt-free way . ’ |
| 17 | The Prison Officers Association said it was astounding that it was so easy to escape from a building which was supposed to be secure . |
| 18 | I was busting and I was there going I said and I could n't exactly say can I go to the toilet ? |
| 19 | His face was bleeding and he was clearly very frightened . |
| 20 | because we did n't know who was coming and who was n't . |
| 21 | And I was saying but I 'm not cos I mean like day weeks he goes yeah but you 're just as bad as all the rest of them , you would be and he would n't say anything , you know , he would n't even tell me that . |
| 22 | Somebody mind you was on about Torbay this morning on the radio I think it was saying that there were so many complaints and nurses are under such great stress . |
| 23 | It 's interesting , you 're talking about our first caller who was saying that there was just too much television coverage |
| 24 | ‘ As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted , you 're intelligent as well as beautiful . |
| 25 | The clouds had thinned , the sun was shining and it was almost warm enough to create the illusion of summer . |
| 26 | It was because the moment of decision was approaching that they were up here on the hill of Dumyat , six miles from Thorfinn 's muster-point at Dunblane , and half that from the crag on the Forth beside which , on one side or another , Thorfinn would take his stand against any Northumbrian advance out of Lothian . |
| 27 | Part of her mind , the cool , rational fragment , was insisting that it was all happening too fast and too soon . |
| 28 | The red mark on his cheek was fading and she was suddenly horrified by her uncontrolled outburst . |
| 29 | You know there 's twenty minutes you know and there 's half an hour of of tape when he thought he was taping when it was just running . |
| 30 | I was fighting but it was not enough , ’ Edberg said . |