Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [prep] [v-ing] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was a chancy business , sometimes we were very busy , sometimes we , we could er we could diversify and making some other machines like we , we did some er rotary punching machines which were instead of drilling a hole , you could punch it you see . |
| 2 | Alejandro was all for putting a bullet through this she-devil 's head and dispatching her to the nearest abattoir . |
| 3 | Just such a device was available in the shape of AM Varityper 's VT600 , a PostScript 600dpi plain paper page printer , although it was only through reading a year 's worth of back copies of the Desktop Publisher newsletter that Tony Gamble ever found out about it . |
| 4 | ‘ Hepzibah said it was just like putting a light out at the end of a day . ’ |
| 5 | It was not like compelling a party to make an irreversible election between two inconsistent remedies ; if an election were irreversible , there would be no point in allowing conspiracy counts not proceeded with to lie on the file , as was commonly done . |
| 6 | But it was always worth putting a scare into people . |
| 7 | In parallel with these structural changes , it was realised that there was more to becoming a business than changing names and lines of reporting . |
| 8 | And to be honest I said it was n't worth wasting a lot of time on them . |
| 9 | It was n't like entering a room at all . |
| 10 | ‘ It was n't like teaching a baby . |
| 11 | It was beginning to dawn on him that getting on a jet plane was n't like stealing a truck . |
| 12 | It was n't like visualizing a holiday — even a place one has n't been before ; after all , there are certain immutables : land , sea , sky and clouds ( not too many of these , please ) ; and even should one have chosen a more unusual location , such as the Arctic or the Gobi Desert , there are photographs . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , the British were able to persuade themselves that the Single European Act was essentially about setting a timetable ( 1 January 1993 ) and establishing the detailed provisions for a ‘ single ’ trading market ; as such the ‘ European idea ’ remained acceptably circumscribed . |