Example sentences of "[pron] was [v-ing] [adv prt] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was also the night when I was buzzing round in the office car , making the routine late calls at the district police stations and ambulance headquarters in Cardiff , just before midnight . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Before I landed Brookside I was washing up in a wine bar so the experience obviously came in handy for playing Chrissie . ’ |
| 4 | Says Harrison : ‘ I was thrashing about in the water with all my clothes on and ended up being dragged down . |
| 5 | I was waiting out in the garden for you to come back . ’ |
| 6 | It was just as I was sitting down in the living room with my cup of coffee that I realised I 'd left my bag on the train . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Cos I was going out in the fresh air , I 'm alright when I 'm out in the fresh air . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And she 'd , she 'd even get her girlfriend 's mother to ring up to say she was staying there the night , the mothers used to s ring up Joan tell them that it was al alright for er for er Andrea to stay there the night and she was never , she was camping out in the fields with a crowd of them oh |
| 11 | Yeah cos er Jim had just come on duty and she was going up in the lift with somebody and they said please can we have five pounds , your mother 's just had her hair permed |
| 12 | Maybe she was lying out in the desert right now with her prettiness all ruined by bloody holes . |
| 13 | Now I do n't know how they managed this dear because she was coming round in the day with little Donna with her and I was around and there you are you see . |
| 14 | and I found two pairs of Michelle 's knickers after that , I did n't know what , now I do n't know how they manage this year because , she was coming round in the day with little Donna with her and I was around , there you are , you see , these , they , they will love and find a way , anyway , erm , I said dear look , a woman needs a man to support her I said mark my words when the chap that she 's got at the moment is taken her out to disco 's and things , she 'll find that he does n't really want to kick in and help to support her . |
| 15 | But when Alice was taken in to see her on the second day , she was sitting up in a swansdown wrap , surrounded by flowers . |
| 16 | She was squatting down in the photograph and Sabrina estimated her to have been a little over five feet with a slender petite figure and a pale , milky complexion . |
| 17 | And erm my father and another lad who was working out in the had to go Called Michael , had to go down every evening to pump water for the the animal . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's a very nice waterfall , ’ she said defensively , adding , in case this ridiculous discussion should end in argument , ‘ I wonder who was creeping about in the woods ? ’ |
| 19 | Gurder moved closer and glanced over his shoulder at Angalo , who was lying back in the control seat with a look of dreamy contentment on his face . |
| 20 | Something was moving around in the darkness . |
| 21 | When I first saw it , it was hopping around in the bottom of one of the larger aviaries . |
| 22 | Otley 's cavalry twill and brogues were doing their best to keep up and he was breaking out in a sweat . |
| 23 | He swivelled from joist to joist , raker to rafter , feeling horribly like a monkey and getting very cold feet in the process even though he was breaking out in a sweat at the same time . |
| 24 | He 'd probably never been to Brixton before — I could tell that from the way he was sinking down in the back of Armstrong the farther along Effra Road we got . |
| 25 | It occurred to him as he was crashing about in the cupboard among his own old mackintoshes , tennis racquets , gum boots , and broken picture frames that he might be doing the wrong thing . |
| 26 | Ronnie , 54 , hit the headlines when he thumped the mayor in the face after his civic car ran over Christmas lights he was stringing up in the centre of Frome , Somerset . |
| 27 | Clarissa said she was glad she had n't known he was walking about in the open . |
| 28 | He was thrashing about in a circle , trying to escape and kept shouting , ‘ Help me ! |
| 29 | A few minutes later he was jerking around in the grip of an atrocious dream , and she woke him up . |
| 30 | No , he was n't , because his head came up and he threw himself back on the ground behind him and he was rolling around in a heap of laughter . |