Example sentences of "[pron] was [v-ing] out [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I was looking out through the door and you have n't got five minutes longer . |
| 2 | Larry Cummins recollected , ‘ I was looking out of the window while seated at my navigator 's table , and I saw a sizeable hole suddenly appear in the left wing . |
| 3 | One Sunday morning , when I was looking out of the window , I saw Mme Guérigny leave church and walk from the rue de Fleuve along the rue Victorie towards Bluot 's , and return with a box nicely wrapped and tied with gold string . |
| 4 | ‘ I have n't a clue — I was freaking out at the time . |
| 5 | Sue likes me … lots of people like me … when I was helping out at the meat counter the other week , Jim said we should go bowling one night . |
| 6 | It was a warm , sunny june day in Fontanellato and I was riding out into the country on my bicycle when another cyclist gave me the news . |
| 7 | The strangers ' faces were barely visible , but from ground level ( where I was leaning out of the tent ) I could see that three of them were wearing football boots . |
| 8 | I realized early on how much I was getting out of the callers and the fact that some of them seemed to get something out of me too increased my confidence in other areas of my life . |
| 9 | ‘ When we reached here , ’ he said , ‘ I was getting out of the cart and my hat fell to the ground . |
| 10 | The prints were n't too bad , considering that I was hanging out of the back window of the plane with just a thin safety belt between me and the farm land 200ft below . |
| 11 | I did all the usual stuff — I gave her some money and stuck her on a tube train to a night shelter , but while I was walking out of the tube station , I thought to myself , ‘ you complacent bitch ’ ’ you know . |
| 12 | I was waiting out in the garden for you to come back . ’ |
| 13 | I recall listening to him tell it to visitors when I was a child , and then later , when I was starting out as a footman under his supervision . |
| 14 | And it was Alice , right , and as I was going out to the door , she said to Alice , Alice must have said to her , are we going tonight ? |
| 15 | Here I am eighteen years old , and in a great state of elation because I was going out with a boy . |
| 16 | Unlike Michelle in Eastenders , my situation was quite different as I was going out with the father of my son . |
| 17 | Pat rung up and wanted me to fetch the dressing table on Tuesday night I said yeah alright I 'll do Wednes but I forgot I was going out with the girls Wednesday so I went out Tuesday and she would n't let me have it , cos Tuesdays they 're not working in the kitchen |
| 18 | He asked me when I wanted to do the interview , I was going out of the hotel and so we 'd do it when I got back . |
| 19 | I was going out of the home more often and people had begun to comment on this . |
| 20 | Cos I was going out in the fresh air , I 'm alright when I 'm out in the fresh air . |
| 21 | ‘ I was feeling that was a pity when some hours later I was coming out of a supermarket and just happened to bump into Sheena again , and we arranged to make contact again , ’ says Betty . |
| 22 | I was doing chequebooks and cards , and I had a very good run on them for about four months , but what with taking drugs and that I collapsed one time when I was working out on the street . |
| 23 | At the end of the third car , just past George Burley 's office , he stopped , because someone was coming out from the station to meet him : a gaunt man in a padded short coat with a fur collar , with grey hair blowing in disarray in the wind . |
| 24 | Faced with a whole series of books to write , Swainson had the choice of simply following Cuvier 's system , which was coming out in an English version at the same time , or of doing something new ; and he chose the latter . |
| 25 | She was looking out into the vault of air above the sea . |
| 26 | She was looking out of a window towards a view of the park . |
| 27 | Grace 's mother was in the room now , and she was looking out of the window with her husband and daughter . |
| 28 | She 'd reclined the seat again but she was n't sleeping ; her head was turned aside and she was looking out of the window , not really seeing anything . |
| 29 | She was speaking out after the deputy leader of Durham County Council , Bob Pendlebury , warned the dispute between the British Government and the European Community about the allocation of European grants could hit the county hard . |
| 30 | Then she was bounding out of the room , heading for the front door and rushing outside into the garden . |