Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there was a , two friends of theirs who were courting and he 'd got a pimple on the end of his nose . |
| 2 | The laughter , the irritation , of the rest of the team who were unloading while he wasted time — none of it mattered . |
| 3 | Her tears were easing and she gave a long gurgling sniff , reaching , it seemed , deep into her empty body . |
| 4 | South West Durham Health Authority chief executive David Ryan said there was clear evidence the people of the district were benefitting and he hoped further progress could be made . |
| 5 | Behind his head the lights of the lorry were flashing as it bumped over the hard ridges of ice . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't think they , or the likes of Norman Mailer and Budd Schulberg ever felt that they were slumming when they wrote for the sports pages , ’ says McIlvanney . |
| 7 | Analysis of the gas in the balloon told the team how much oxygen the camels were using as they walked . |
| 8 | We filled that and while they were eating that we kept the hay , hay , cut it through a rick , a big thin knife , you know , fill the remainder of the racks with the hay , so that by the time they 'd gone and finished that they 'd gone in to eat the hay , then we 'd got the yard free to litter it out , and to straw it on both sides , one would be on the , one down on the bottom to pull straw down into the yard , and that was . |
| 9 | Once again the movies were proving that they had their own version of what was real . |
| 10 | One lady thought we were turfing and she said could we turf the lawn for her ? |
| 11 | Even lightly-oiled birds were dying as they ingested oil while attempting to preen themselves clean . |
| 12 | She said she 'd realised how tired your parents were becoming and she knew that if she wanted to remain at home on a long-term basis she would have to have some form of respite care . |
| 13 | ‘ When Jones sat on the bench on Saturday in the Test we were praying that he did not have to come on . |
| 14 | ‘ When Jones sat on the bench on Saturday in the Test we were praying that he did not have to come on . |
| 15 | The shops were opening and I browsed for a while in one that sold books as well as newspapers and magazines , but I failed to find the American edition of Rodriguez 's book . |
| 16 | She were laughing when I showed her that letter I got , cos she got one the same morning , , she said , and it said , and you can go round and talk to him . |
| 17 | No we were laughing because you 've got mayonnaise all round your mouth . |
| 18 | There was something strangely prurient about a total freedom to examine someone else 's personal tastes , but all her artistic antennae were quivering as she moved back inside and began to look carefully around her . |
| 19 | You know , because I think we as parish council would have thought that we were interfering if we suggested that we should go to observe somebody 's group meeting . |
| 20 | But at that time Langer and Graham were bogeying and they had to birdie the last in the finish to force a playoff . |
| 21 | My boots and feet were smouldering when they found me . |
| 22 | But the dark grey eyes were smouldering as they dropped briefly from the stormy curve of her mouth to her body , scantily clad in garments that were casual in the extreme , her favourite faded denim shorts cut from an old pair of jeans , and the little white cotton bustier into which she had changed on her return from work , planning to spend the humid twilight time out on her balcony before preparing to attend a local record company 's promotion party . |
| 23 | This is precisely what Robson , Jennings , and Willis were advocating since they argued for the rationalization of our haphazard arrangements for tribunals with an appellate jurisdiction vested in an administrative appeal tribunal which would be separate from the High Court . |
| 24 | You see , we were coasting when I went to sleep ; I was floating , held by my seat belt . |
| 25 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
| 26 | She knew her hands were trembling as she fiddled with a pen on the desk . |
| 27 | Stella 's hands were trembling as she held the torch . |
| 28 | His legs were trembling as he ran back to the police car to radio for immediate medical help . |
| 29 | The musky male scent of his cologne teased her nostrils , and she was ashamed at the way her knees were trembling as he led her over to sit down on the wide , comfortable couch . |
| 30 | But his hands were trembling as he put them back in his pockets , and a thick feeling rose up in his throat whenever he thought of Helen , which seemed to be nearly all the time . |