Example sentences of "[coord] [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Or were going to be acquired , since the entries are in pencil . ’ |
| 2 | And somewhere inside it , was the Presley hoard , or was going to be real shortly . |
| 3 | I think the old man 's a bit afraid to go into hospital , I know that he 's afraid obviously cos of the , the , this open heart surgery sort of thing but er , he 's also afraid that , he thinks were gon na have er such outrageous parties down the close and were gon na be open all night and things like that . |
| 4 | ’ But Aunt Louise had closed her eyes and was pretending to be asleep . |
| 5 | Later in the race McCallen fell off at Church Corner , Portrush , but was unhurt and was hoping to be able to take part in the opening Superbike race which followed the 250cc . |
| 6 | The photographer had obviously been studying portraits of Betty Grable and other film stars and was trying to be very artistic , with much back lighting and fluffing out of hair , and I must admit that my hair ( touching my shoulders , naturally ) , did look nice . |
| 7 | It appeared that Lord Coleworthy had heard all about the trouble from Fairfax and was trying to be a peacemaker . |
| 8 | Erm , if you were diagnosed as having cancer , and was intending to be dead in nine months , what would your reaction be to that ? |
| 9 | He became an ever-present volunteer , had passed as a fireman and was training to be a driver . |
| 10 | Not far behind them sat David Thomas and his wife , a jeweller who had looked after the Spencer family for years and sold Diana several pieces : but he was still ‘ just a humble jeweller ’ , and was expecting to be tucked away behind a pillar at the back . |
| 11 | By his next letter he had recovered his good humour and was asking to be forgiven . |
| 12 | He had recently suffered an injury to his knee and was preparing to be discharged . |
| 13 | She dropped a curtsey and was waiting to be allowed through the door when Mrs Eckley said , ‘ Is this not Wilson , whom I have heard so much about , Ba ? ’ |
| 14 | She had been living in a hostel for women in North London for the past year and was waiting to be re-housed . |
| 15 | Parvin had measured her friend and was waiting to be measured . |
| 16 | The taxi ride from the airport to the little village where she was staying , only six kilometres from Nice , had been uncomfortable because the air-conditioning in the car had broken down three days before her arrival and was waiting to be repaired , and all in all her last vestiges of good humour had finally bitten the dust as she 'd stood in front of the house and realised that it had n't finished being built . |
| 17 | The Jury said that he would be charged with the theft of the ring , and was going to be hanged but the ring had cost eleven pence and one halfpenny . |
| 18 | According to letters her mother had received from Uncle Félix , Alice Pritchett had done quite amazingly well and was going to be given the new London branch of her uncle 's fashion house to manage . |
| 19 | She had two young children and was going to be thirty she felt the responsibility of having to forget her fantasy life as her Frenchman 's cabin boy . |
| 20 | Questioned , Swayne stated that the animal had been let out at approximately 9.30 on Saturday evening and was crying to be let in at a little before midnight . |