Example sentences of "[pron] was [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then , having exhausted his recollections of the circumstances of his writing the paper , he switched to more personal matters and enquired carefully how I was getting on in a way that made me reel that my mission had been worthwhile and that I had by no means wasted his morning . |
| 2 | Before I landed Brookside I was washing up in a wine bar so the experience obviously came in handy for playing Chrissie . ’ |
| 3 | I was walking around with a camera and binoculars right on top of their nuclear silos . |
| 4 | The scheme certainly helped me right at the beginning when I was starting up as a criminal lawyer . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I was driving back from a conference in Norwich , and I wanted to see the church in any case . |
| 7 | By the time I was eight-years-old I was going around with a prostitute . |
| 8 | And it 's seventy degrees out there in the winter , well I was going round in a T-shirt , they all thought I was mad . |
| 9 | Here I am eighteen years old , and in a great state of elation because I was going out with a boy . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | Yes , to be fair Jenny came in er , on Friday to talk to me about it , but I just did n't have time , I was rushing off to a meeting so I 've |
| 12 | I was tired , Thérèse said : so I was lying down for a bit . |
| 13 | ‘ Dave thought someone was running around with a neighbour 's wife ’ said Alice quietly . |
| 14 | He glanced down at his thick cock , which was standing up like a telegraph pole . |
| 15 | She was sinking down into a dream , aware only of the warmth of his body wrapped intimately against her own . |
| 16 | She was looking out of a window towards a view of the park . |
| 17 | She was hanging around with a bunch of amateurs in Hell . |
| 18 | Cathy when I was in hospital in er a physiotherapy bit , where they , where they brought children in , erm there was this little girl and like she was riding round on a little bike , you know , so she 's quite , quite old and she had er , in , in brace , but her legs were like out at the side and her feet were pointing down and they 're pointing up , I 'm just a bit confused . |
| 19 | She was holding on by a thread . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's nothing in the dock except maybe a couple of beer cans and a radio some clumsy bimbo dropped when she was teetering out of a punt in high heels . |
| 21 | She was going out with a friend of mine , but she came on so strong that she frightened him off . |
| 22 | Minny : one day when I 'd been gushing about her dress when she was going out to a dance . |
| 23 | She was going out to a party , I got a bucket of water , threw it over her head ! |
| 24 | She was going out to a party . |
| 25 | She 'd told her husband she was going out for a walk with their pet dog , Kirsty , when she was found the dog was still clinging to her . |
| 26 | Occasionally with him she had the sense she was going down through a hole in the floor . |
| 27 | He noticed that she was puffing along with a glass held before her in both hands — he could smell whisky . |
| 28 | Then she was blowing up like a bubble herself and getting fatter and fatter and more and more bulbous till she filled the whole sky and I knew that if she burst the explosion would drown me in mud too , and I could smell the slurry in my nostrils already and it was getting up my nose and I could n't breathe and … |
| 29 | Then Adam 's shadow vanished ; light arrow Ed down on her ; and she was climbing out through a trapdoor into a darkness that dazzled with this stabbing light . |
| 30 | But when Alice was taken in to see her on the second day , she was sitting up in a swansdown wrap , surrounded by flowers . |