Example sentences of "[pron] was [v-ing] [adv prt] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ When we reached here , ’ he said , ‘ I was getting out of the cart and my hat fell to the ground . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I was going out of the home more often and people had begun to comment on this . |
| 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 | She was looking out of a window towards a view of the park . |
| 12 | Grace 's mother was in the room now , and she was looking out of the window with her husband and daughter . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Then she was bounding out of the room , heading for the front door and rushing outside into the garden . |
| 15 | David came back as she was getting out of the bath . |
| 16 | As she was getting out of the Metro he opened the front door . |
| 17 | Three days before the opening night of the Season , Gesner — rather embarrassingly — stopped the rehearsal when he saw she was slipping out of the theatre to go home . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | The next minute she was running out of the yard and into the street again and into the shelter of the doorway leading into the hat shop . |
| 20 | She was going out of the band room when she suddenly asked , ‘ If someone takes liberties with you , is it partly your own fault ? ’ |
| 21 | He sneaked a look at her , and found he had an excellent view of the back of her head ; she was staring out of the passenger window at the darkening vista of St James 's Park . |
| 22 | She was staring out of the window . |
| 23 | He laughed under his breath and looked at her with reluctant appreciation , but Alyssia did n't notice because she was staring out of the window at the passing scenery , keeping her fingers tightly crossed that the car would n't stop wheezing and die completely on them before they reached Nice . |
| 24 | She was staring out of the window across the open space of the ‘ tZand when he came in . |
| 25 | Arms on the table , she was staring out of the window with unseeing eyes then , abruptly , she turned to face him . |
| 26 | And it was an old woman — she was a religious maniac and she was rushing out of the house in her nightie and praying in the gutter . |
| 27 | I met her one day when she was coming out of the hairdresser 's and I 'd been in to make an appointment for Caroline . |
| 28 | I actually hear Lisa the other night she was coming out of the bath , oh she said , the bath 's cold . |
| 29 | Timothy glanced at the marquis who was gazing out of the window , apparently deaf to the conversation . |
| 30 | I asked the officer who was looking out of the window if there was a curfew . |