Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was so caught up in what I was seeing that it was only when I reached the top of the close where they lived that I started to think again about what I was doing there , and it was then that my feelings of fear started . |
| 2 | I was roused from my room with a call from the Cambridge police , Stewart had been arrested for disorderly conduct and was demanding that his skipper should come down and bail him out . |
| 3 | Is not the hypocrisy and confusion in the Opposition ranks shown by the fact that , when that judgment was announced , the legal affairs spokesman for the Opposition was immediately in the media demanding my right hon. Friend 's resignation , while the shadow Home Secretary was demanding that he remain . |
| 4 | Well , Peter 's getting close to retirement , and he was hinting that he 'd like to sell out . |
| 5 | The announcement came as State President F. W. de Klerk was hinting that he was prepared to reintroduce a state of emergency , lifted in part in June 1990 [ see p. 37522 ] . |
| 6 | Bukharin was suggesting that one can not construct a theory of transition a priori but must pragmatically steer towards a given objective , only then will the theory of transition emerge upon the basis of practical and concrete experience . |
| 7 | The letter was dated almost a week previously , and as Merrill read it she realised with dismay that Richard was already in the area and was suggesting that they meet in the lounge of Frobishers ' at seven o'clock on Saturday — this evening . |
| 8 | A , actually John was suggesting that we might talk nicely to John 's dad about the money they 've got invested in the sale of their pro , their ground . |
| 9 | But there was no indication that Mr Beregovoy , speaking at a business seminar , was suggesting that there were any negotiations for full British EMS membership . |
| 10 | Certainly to respond to the gentleman who was suggesting that there 's no difference between us as adults and children , certainly there is the child in all adults erm that does respond , perhaps , in a childish way at times , but I would suggest that as adults we hopefully have gotten to a place in ourselves which we are not so much at the mercy of our immediate wishes and wants and feelings that we are able to be more measured in the way that we handle ourselves and our feelings , and therefore in a position to help our children to develop that capacity within themselves as they are growing up erm and erm I 've forgotten the other point I was going to make just following on from what Elizabeth there in the studio was saying . |
| 11 | Celia Hooper-seated opposite him in just such a chair and situation , so that they resembled two bookends without intervening books — was suggesting that she should draw up a basic plan for the annual deanery party , which happened at Loxford Rectory after Easter , a get-together for all the priests of the deanery , eight of them , and their wives . |
| 12 | I was so sure I was drowning that I forgot about the race and screamed out , " Father ! |
| 13 | It was touching that they cared about you . ’ |
| 14 | Now she was praying that her idea was wrong , that she would find herself looking at someone totally unfamiliar . |
| 15 | With every atom of her being she was praying that he was . |
| 16 | Before I was in the band if I saw that something was happening that I did n't like I 'd say nothing and go along with it . |
| 17 | Too much was happening that he could n't explain , things were spiralling out of his control . |
| 18 | I believe now the driver — I did n't see who it was — was checking that I had left the pub . |
| 19 | It was made clear to a friend of mine who was dying that he was not wanted on the ward , not through words but by the minimum care he was given after an unsuccessful operation and the refusal of any doctor to speak to him . |
| 20 | I was explaining that we had fallen in need of a housekeeper and an under-butler at one and the same time and Miss Kenton had arrived — with unusually good references , I recall — to take up the former post . |
| 21 | My aunt was explaining that she had come up to visit me . |
| 22 | Whoever was with her was explaining that it was an emergency . |
| 23 | Inside the hall of the house in Maryon Park Gardens , a tearful , frightened little man was explaining that his name was Bill Pitkin , that he was not Terry Place , that he had never seen Terry Place nor ever heard of him . |
| 24 | So maybe it was fitting that it should begin here , at Nanking , where DeVore had first slipped the net . |
| 25 | Stuart Goldie , business manager at the Botanic Centre said it was fitting that it would be opening in May , as Middlesbrough started its year as Environment City . |
| 26 | It was fitting that his last innings for Middlesex should bring him 221 — his highest first-class score . |
| 27 | Thereafter only Ward on the final afternoon played with any real confidence and it was fitting that he should score the only century of the tour just before the end of the match . |
| 28 | Besides , it was fitting that he should serve a people who were so obviously more admirable as human beings than himself . |
| 29 | It was fitting that he was last to leave the Lansdowne Road arena . |
| 30 | In Saigon , for example , the US Minister was urging that his country 's influence must be felt ‘ not only through the gravitational pull of our aid program but in actual participation in certain controls and in accelerating certain French concessions ’ . |