Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Wynne-Jones shuddered ; Tallis thought he was coughing with pain , but he was laughing . |
| 2 | And then I was coughing for ages then mum goes oh you , I go oh , I feel terrible ! |
| 3 | I mean you look at , see I I 've had , I felt like when I was coughing at work I felt like sitting there and I thought I ca n't believe this . |
| 4 | In the morning , Belle had a temperature and by night , she was coughing without stopping . |
| 5 | Rose was coughing in her sleep . |
| 6 | I even 'eard Mum say the other day she was goin' over there to get a loan . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought you was goin' to be a famous pilot this mornin' , ’ retorted George . |
| 8 | Neddy Fawcett , who was farming at West Birk Hatt in the days before it was flooded when the new reservoir opened , was very good with mechanical things and used to come over and try to make it start . |
| 9 | They married in 1910 and she came to live at West park , where Father was farming with his sister , Hannah . |
| 10 | Who on earth was thumping at the door like that early in the morning ? |
| 11 | Ronni 's heart was thumping at at least twice its normal rate . |
| 12 | A stocky , energetic young man with a shock of red hair was thumping on a table-top and proclaiming in a strong Welsh accent : ‘ I 'm simply asking , when are we going to get our rights , like we was promised ? |
| 13 | My heart was thumping with disquiet . |
| 14 | My heart was thumping as if I had run a race and there was a pain in my back . |
| 15 | A floor gargoyle exhaled air that was cooler , yet the refrigeration unit was thumping in distress . |
| 16 | As I reached the changing room again my heart was thumping inside my chest . |
| 17 | Theda managed an answering smile , but her heart was thumping like a drum . |
| 18 | As Chesterton was preaching to the converted there was no chance of this , so he avoided prosecution . |
| 19 | He was preaching on the text ‘ The Kingdom of Heaven suffereth violence , and violent men take it by force ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ He was preaching on a street in Belfast . |
| 21 | Our Pastor was preaching on Psalm 37 and verses 5 and 6 really spoke to me . |
| 22 | Furthermore he was preaching against Calvinism . |
| 23 | Richard Baxter was preaching in Alcester one Sunday in September 1642 when the sound of distant canon fire was heard . |
| 24 | In July 1674 , Richard Baxter was preaching in St. James 's Market House when the main beam , supporting the floor , creaked several times with the weight of the people who had crowded in to hear him . |
| 25 | We sang , a little earlier on , a song of er Wesley 's and back those two hundred and twenty , two hundred and thirty years ago , when Wesley was preaching in this country and in America , there was another preacher every bit as famous then , perhaps not quite so famous today , preacher by the name of George Whitfield and George Whitfield , he went around and he was preaching , and he preached on this , this text , John er , i in John three , you must be born again ! |
| 26 | ‘ Is it ? ’ said Fael-Inis , the golden eyes glowing and piercing , so that Fergus felt as if Fael-Inis was seeing into his mind . |
| 27 | She was nineteen and choked by the immensity of her reaction to this man , unable to breathe or stir , and panicked by the conviction that Luke was seeing into her secret self , invading , bent on vandalising and stealing . |
| 28 | Jockey Ron Treloggen 's only problem was seeing off the unwelcome attentions of a loose horse , Forest Ranger , who stuck to him like glue all the way from Becher 's Brook to the winning line . |
| 29 | Mike was there every day , being nice to me and telling me not to worry about anything , he 'd found this flat and his mother was seeing to furnishing it and they were making arrangements for the wedding . |
| 30 | You said your partner was seeing to the tourist board and the airlines here in Palma — ’ |