Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pers pn] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Stewarts had another residence , in Renfrewshire , and it was while they were visiting it that a tragedy occurred . |
| 2 | The way he was touching her and the expression in his eyes made her optimistic as she click-clacked beside him on her high heels . |
| 3 | If I did n't want it he would say that he was keeping me and the least I could do was give him sex . |
| 4 | Told me land and nobody , and a passenger , whether he was driving it or the passenger I do n't know . |
| 5 | The next moment I was on the floor and one was kicking me and the other was hitting me in the face . |
| 6 | He was driving her crazy the way he was holding her and the way he was looking down at her with smouldering blue eyes . |
| 7 | It showed an elderly couple being given their meal by a uniformed WRVS woman who was asking them if the food had been all right the last time . |
| 8 | And I was running it and the first week I got there , and one guy turned up . |
| 9 | He climbed into the bus that was taking him and the company 's guests back to the hotel and he sat next to someone he did not recognise in the only seat left vacant . |
| 10 | On one embarrassing occasion Queen Mary caught her earring on the beard of the plumber who was showing her that the lavatory cistern really worked . |
| 11 | The officer with the harsh voice was advising him that the money would be ‘ charged to the Lord Advocate 's account ’ if he himself could not ‘ procure the funds ’ . |
| 12 | On November 21st he told Poindexter , who was advising him that the Justice Department ‘ fact-finding mission ’ was about to descend on his office , that he had got rid of them all . |
| 13 | Then he was looming over her , inches away , and already the sexual hunger in his body was enfolding her and the unreleased tension within her was making her quiver from the top of her head , down to her toes . |
| 14 | I suppose I should have been paying attention to the old artist , when he was telling me that the thing had to be carried in near-vacuum with traces of helium and neon but definitely no oxygen , which would destroy it . |
| 15 | Then his mouth was covering hers and the hot , fierce thrust of his tongue , plunging deep in shockingly explicit demand , sent a shaft of panic through her . |
| 16 | Strachan knocked the ball past Clarke and was following it when the Chelsea defender deliberately brought him down . |