Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [was/were] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now if I were to suggest to you that in some gay bars the ‘ lads ’ pop off to the toilets that number of times to indulge themselves , then you might think I was repeating lurid propaganda put about by the puritan league . |
| 2 | Erm I thought that erm I , I mean I was getting some things that John has n't , has n't mentioned , erm when you mentioned the wife being there erm when you , when you were introducing the C C Q you then assumed that you would be coming back with recommendations |
| 3 | You say how do you know I was doing forty miles an hour ? |
| 4 | Out drinking with a couple of female journalists ( in what was supposedly Hemingway 's favourite bar in Havana , if you must know ) , I mentioned I was writing this article and we all launched into our favourite New Age stories , like the one about the Immortalists , a group who take to its logical end the New Age philosophy of positive thinking and creating your own reality , and have decided they are going to live forever . |
| 5 | It should n't have taken her long to pack and change out of her sundress into a skirt and blouse , but she found she was folding each garment at least twice , and several times she stood looking out of the window at the busy yard below . |
| 6 | How alarmed you must have been to discover she was receiving secret messages from some mysterious adviser , who also promised he would arrange her escape from Godstowe ! |
| 7 | So the police say you were doing forty miles an hour . |
| 8 | Local reports suggest he was carrying 20 cases of cigarettes from Gibraltar to Spanish territory where they can fetch 3 times the price . |
| 9 | There 's been nothing very dramatic since the secretive and highly confidential opening , when the teacher started with : " I 've been told about the wreck of a Roman Galley , which is buried in mud off the coast near Pompeii ; and it 's said that when it sank it was carrying great chests of treasure from Egypt . " |
| 10 | Adam found he was holding both hands clamped over his mouth . |
| 11 | Serbs found it was carrying more ammunition than was listed on the manifest , a Bosnian Serb officer said . |
| 12 | ‘ I hope you were having nice dreams , ’ he said . |
| 13 | A lot of those promoting the policies really believed in them , believed they were doing positive work . |
| 14 | When Putnam and Buchsbaum analysed the waveforms produced by each personality it seemed they were examining 60 people , instead of 20 . |
| 15 | When last seen he was wearing blue jeans , a cream sweatshirt , blue padded jacket and black shoes . |
| 16 | He jabbered away to his friends , and Ellie assumed he was explaining that item number one was a drink . |
| 17 | It 's hard enough for him to accept Angy 's shabby treatment of Rick , her lies about the ring and her deceit in letting him think she was carrying another man 's child . |
| 18 | Like , what the hell did you think you were doing last night ? |
| 19 | Given some of the appalling crud that gets sent to rss ( cf Denise ) , I could n't believe you were getting serious grief for it . |
| 20 | she had fat knees in ginger stockings which kept straying apart … he could see she was wearing apricot knickers ; |
| 21 | You 'll remember we were offering five copies each of the latest Sega and Super Nintendo Tips Books to the first people to tell us the name of the hero in Rocket Knight Adventures . |
| 22 | I reckoned we were doing more damage to Naamen 's image than the demonstrators . |
| 23 | In a development that highlighted Rosyth 's struggle to survive , the MoD last night confirmed it was giving serious consideration to an attempt by Devonport to poach a £28 million ship refitting contract already awarded to the Fife yard . |
| 24 | But I do n't think we were understanding each other . ’ |
| 25 | It was five-thirty in the morning , and when I finally got to sleep I was hating those birds . |
| 26 | yeah yeah well I know she was getting that way towards Christmas . |
| 27 | But we know this is marble chippings you know you were getting this carbon dioxide off . |
| 28 | We were engaged , within weeks of marriage , when I discovered she was seeing another man . |
| 29 | It , it was a two bedroom old cottage it was , very , very nice with a big garden and all I had was erm one room downstairs and like er a kitchen , well er where the sink and that was it was more like a big room where the kitchen was and the two bedrooms upstairs , but only a door on one bedroom , you went up the stairs into a big open room you know where the bannisters all round you know what I mean , no door on it and just , another door , a bedroom door , that 's all but I loved it you know it was a nice erm , not bad , but of course it was condemned it got so old and then they pulled it down and they built another house on it right next to where erm that shooting took pla you know they was having that shooting night just down that lane where I used to be |
| 30 | I heard they were getting great preview reaction . ’ |