Example sentences of "[v-ing] [coord] [pron] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I was walking and he was with his mum and I looked up cos I know what his mum looks like and he was walking with his mum . |
| 3 | The bitter weather was ending and everyone was feeling more cheerful when Joe was due to come on leave , but shortly before he arrived his mother had a vivid dream in which she saw him lying dead on a battlefield . |
| 4 | A woman barred her way because a service was ending and there was an aggressive demand for a donation on entrance instead of , in the British tradition , a polite request before leaving . |
| 5 | Well I had learnt shorthand and typing at school but erm the money was necessary at home you see , and er with my sister working there , at H and T Hornes , er she spoke for me and er I had an interview and and they put me up in the nursery , we used to call it the nursery see because we were all fourteens up there and er then they called it the cylinder shop and er my foreman was a fella name Archie and erm everything was very very strict indeed , we could not move away from our board you could n't speak to the next one that was working by you , and er there was a fella named Mr and he was he , I did n't work for him I worked for Mr , but some you cou you were afraid to move because of this man and he he he 'd stare at you and he 'd look at you and anyway erm they put me assembling and it was very interesting indeed , there was a tall stand on , we called it the bench , a tall stand with a screw on the top and then to as begin to assemble the locks you had to take what we would call the body , screw it into the er little on the stand and then we had tweezers , there were , in the body there were five springs and then you had to have five breast pins and when you got the springs in you .. we have to have a plug at the back so as we could put each pin and push the plug over that a dummy plug we called it and so that was five pins were in and then there was a ball er when that , when we came to put it in our vice , we had to put the V I C E not V O voice . |
| 6 | Du Guesclin was reorganising the French armies , our old king was doddering and there was no need for English swords in France , so we sailed for Outremer . |
| 7 | I watched it for several minutes , and they seemed to be landing and one was stationary in the air , without moving , and the rest were going up and down . |
| 8 | I could n't get to sleep , and I noticed in the air there was a red light flashing , and several other green lights flashing , and they were coming , helicopter noises , and er I watched them for several minutes and they seemed to be landing and one was stationary in the air , without moving , and rest were going up and down . |
| 9 | Mrs Beckett , MP for Derby South , added : ‘ I was just surprised by what was happening and there was a bit of a scuffle . |
| 10 | Do n't know , it does n't seem to be doing anything and what the was that during the week when was in residence one night the dogs barked and he went out to see what was happening and there was a young man who worked in it this was in the pitch dark , was up there taking some of his stuff away . |
| 11 | At long last it was happening and I was receiving confirmation that the exotic and rare species , The Homosexual , existed somewhere else other than in my imagination . |
| 12 | The local papers got wind in advance of what was happening and I was petrified that the police would come bursting in to arrest us all . |
| 13 | Not a lot was happening and I was really tired so I decided to go to bed . |
| 14 | Something was happening and it was so pleasurable she did n't want it to fade . |
| 15 | On the preliminary issue the judge dismissed the application holding that a local authority could sue for libel in respect of its governing or administrative reputation even though no financial loss was pleaded or alleged , that where a local authority instituted proceedings in reliance on section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 it was for the local authority to decide on the expediency of litigating and it was not the court 's function to do so on an application to strike out , and that since the words complained of reflected on the local authority itself in the management and rectitude of its financial affairs , the statement of claim did disclose a cause of action against the defendants . |
| 16 | Her coughing had started again and soon tears mingled with wheezing and she was in a sorry state by the time her husband came back to say the carriage was ready . |
| 17 | ‘ I was terribly upset about my husband dying and I was n't 100 per cent . |
| 18 | came up to say it was a matter of time he probably would n't last the weekend he was dying and he was on morphine tablets |
| 19 | THE BARE STONE WALLS OBVIATED THE NEED FOR WALLCOVERING AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL THE ASHLEYS MOVED TO THEIR NEXT HOUSE THAT THEY PRESSED AHEAD WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF WALLPAPER . |
| 20 | This method is called density slicing and it was the technique used in the generation of the colour image shown on the front cover of this book . |
| 21 | ‘ Everyone started laughing and I was concerned that ‘ Jacki ’ might feel alienated but he immediately started laughing himself and I knew I 'd signed a character who 'd get on fine in Scotland . ’ |
| 22 | The woman and three children were now laughing and I was pleased about that , as they had looked scared stiff when I entered their house a few moments before . |
| 23 | For example , the Turkish translation of ( 95 ) might be glossed as ( 96 ) , where the proximal demonstrative anaphorically refers to the first referent introduced , and the distal demonstrative to the second : ( 95 ) John and Mary came into the room : he was laughing but she was crying ( 96 ) John and Mary came into the room : this was laughing , but that was crying In that case , there are good arguments for considering that anaphora ultimately rests on deictic notions ( Lyons , 1977a : 671 ) . |
| 24 | Well he , he possibly may have felt that he could erm very quickly stir things up but there we it was n't quite to the extent that this was happening but there was the , the chance it would . |
| 25 | Never went out till Friday because it was , they went walking but it was so windy cos they 're here and the garden 's sort of down to a field and then it 's all fields and fields and fields and the wind just comes across like gales all the time . |
| 26 | But either it was not hunting or he was too big to tackle , for it disappeared over the heather ; and although he waited motionless for some time , it did not return . |
| 27 | Either the place was worth searching or it was n't . |
| 28 | I was n't listening and it was important that I should have picked that up . |
| 29 | Not strictly true , he was a lapsed communist , but Preston meant it to be provoking and it was . |
| 30 | oh , he was soaking and she was soaking , they come in , she had er trolley and he had er |