Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , would you think you were impressing anyone by telling them you play an ST-02-3X ? |
| 2 | They were accusing him of claiming to be God . |
| 3 | They were concerned least the Shah should think that they were rebuking him for comparing him unfavourably with them of steel . |
| 4 | They swallowed it and said they were charging me with handling stolen goods . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's his birthday , Monsieur Armand , but I 'm afraid we were spoiling it by having a political discussion . ’ |
| 6 | I thought that if FAKINTIL were confining themselves to bringing the mast down , then they would be just escaping now , shooting their way out of town . |
| 7 | At dinner one evening , we were congratulating him on getting the job and he mentioned this educational remit and that he had no idea what to do . |
| 8 | While you were congratulating yourself on dodging Louie , Ambrose had you in view all the time . ’ |
| 9 | Thailand 's leading conservationist , Sueb Nakhasatien , committed suicide in 1990 after complaining repeatedly that official corruption and a lack of resources were preventing him from acting effectively against wildlife poaching . |
| 10 | England team manager Keith Fletcher denied that Stewart 's problems with a bruised and misshapen right index finger were preventing him from keeping wicket and defended the decision to include Blakey . |
| 11 | European pressure on the USA to extend its trade liberalization policy grew after reports on April 11 that some West German companies including the Volkswagen car manufacturing company had complained that COCOM regulations were preventing them from supplying machinery to their newly acquired factories in East Germany . |
| 12 | Respondents were asked to describe how they would like to expand their training programmes : this elicited needs that libraries perceived as significant but which were not being satisfied , and information about the factors that they felt were preventing them from undertaking ‘ enough ’ training . |
| 13 | She would come back to camp after a day off , call in at the office to see what was going on , and if we were all running around like headless chickens , snowed under with miles of paper from the teleprinter , and an irate Wing CO was tearing his hair out because the visibility had suddenly slumped from three miles to fifty yards and all his boys were up there somewhere running out of fuel , Rosemary would calmly take over the plotting while one of us rushed out to the screen to read the instruments , or go into the screaming teleprinter to shut off the insistent ear-piercing bell which was reminding everybody within hearing that we were late in sending in the hourly observation . |
| 14 | I had the uncanny feeling that the ghost of Sigmund Freud was chiding me for thinking this and she was clearly incensed that I could suggest that her father could have had any interest in religion whatsoever . |
| 15 | But he continued to advance , for she was accusing him of going out of his mind . |
| 16 | Rebecca was accusing her of starting the fire , and he was doing nothing to dispute the idea . |
| 17 | My mum was really upset because he was accusing her of having an affair with another man . |
| 18 | He was accusing her of having the morals of an alleycat again , and she was tired of it . |
| 19 | Colour flooded her cheeks as she realised he was accusing her of posing and denying he had had anything to do with it . |
| 20 | Utterly flabbergasted , Leith began to realise that he was accusing her of announcing their ‘ engagement ’ to all and sundry . |
| 21 | So one could n't justify having two people on board doing the job when in fact what was involved was bringing you in signing you in and then serving you . |
| 22 | She knew that John truly believed that he was protecting her by keeping their love secret , but she was becoming frustrated and annoyed about the situation . |
| 23 | 'I persuaded myself that I did n't want to introduce irrelevances into your investigation , when in fact I was protecting myself from having to relive traumas of the past . |
| 24 | Then Travis was rousing himself and , his coffee untouched , was mumbling something about getting back to Essex . |
| 25 | When it disappeared from the catalogue and by chance I was offered a knighthood , I always said that the Queen , coming as she does from an angling family , was compensating me for having had my name taken out of Hardy 's catalogue . |
| 26 | The senator spoke with a sudden and incredible venom , and I realised it was only that angry force that was keeping him from weeping for his two children . |
| 27 | I was keeping it for cleaning the car . |
| 28 | Everyone said I was playing when I got out the clay or plasticine , but really I was training myself without knowing it . |
| 29 | It is strange how so many of Palin 's characters , from Pythons ' Mr Gumby through to the stuttering animal-loving crook in Cleese 's A Fish Called Wanda , seemed to be based on his father , almost as if he was persecuting himself by playing infinite versions of the man . |
| 30 | She was kicking herself for forgetting the most basic Capricorn trait of allowing nothing to stand in the way of their goal . |