Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] [adj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's where it made a difference but I was sticking in all the blinking week I 'll save that till he gets home but apart from |
| 2 | I was sprinting in all the B League races for London Irish , winning all the time and getting fed up with it ; there was no real challenge . |
| 3 | then I was looking at all the garden stuff , and and I thought well , start by the , and I thought I 'm doing a Joey ! |
| 4 | minutes he was looking through all the advertisements for civil engineering . |
| 5 | I was looking in all the shop windows , at the reflections . |
| 6 | But already the 11.54 was steaming into the station , and Perks was looking in all the windows . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm sorry , I was gaping at all the knick-knacks ! ’ she smiled up at him . |
| 8 | Although Fred pretended to be surprised at my earnings I felt sure he knew what was going on all the time . |
| 9 | He had n't invited her to sit down , she thought resentfully , but she was going to all the same . |
| 10 | So after the opening I ran out of the dressing room to where Dad , in his red waistcoat , was waiting with all the others . |
| 11 | He found now he was speaking to all the eagles in the Cages and that they were listening to him . |
| 12 | He would make the arrogant assumption that she was complaining about all the times separation would deprive her of him . |
| 13 | They had brought tales with them from England of witchcraft and the King 's concern ; an Essex man who had come with the Hopewell on the return voyage recalled how when he was a child , a pricker was calling on all the households of the nearby villages to discover the sources of a murrain on the flocks . |
| 14 | Baby Donald was yelling with all the force of his lungs . |
| 15 | well they were they was rolling in all the muck in the farmyard but they , they went to the pies just put their noses round them and turned them over and then they s and true as god made little apples they started walking round these pies and they left them and they were still there when we went away . |
| 16 | But er he 's , er he was playing with that the other day . |
| 17 | Erm the reason I 'm asking is because I suspect it would have been greater at the time I was talking about all the ago though . |
| 18 | I was thinking of all the work I needed to do on Masquerade ; all the painstaking hours of sawing and planing and caulking and rigging . |
| 19 | I was thinking about all the |
| 20 | Jay became slashingly dykey , rolling one cigarette after another , was unashamedly heterosexist , never raised her voice above a steely drawl , though her throat was screaming with all the things she could n't say , her body bruised with the feeling of being trivialised . |
| 21 | Soon Eleanor Coade was working for all the eminent Georgian architects , including Robert Adam , James and Samuel Wyatt , Sir William Chambers , John Nash , and ( Sir ) John Soane [ qq.v . ] . |
| 22 | Jack Nicklaus was practising on one the first time I arived . |