Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pn reflx] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | While you were congratulating yourself on dodging Louie , Ambrose had you in view all the time . ’ |
| 3 | '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 . |
| 4 | Everyone said I was playing when I got out the clay or plasticine , but really I was training myself without knowing it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She was kicking herself for forgetting the most basic Capricorn trait of allowing nothing to stand in the way of their goal . |
| 7 | A few seconds later I was despising myself for having been in any doubt . |
| 8 | Ward 's excuse for talking in Spanish had been that he was accustoming himself to using it freely . |
| 9 | There I was congratulating myself on surviving the winter without so much as a sniffle , when I was suddenly struck down without warning . |
| 10 | He was killing himself with laughing , but dashed over to the security man and put Kenny out of his misery . |