Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But now said that although he and Mary were already filling a second room with their bits of furniture and stuff , of course they would move it all out at once , if that room were needed by anyone to live in .
2 Cos we did actually , we went to before we went , putting the things together making sure that we were n't starting the next activity until the , the rooms would be finished .
3 Donna was already opening the second envelope .
4 She was just drinking a second cup of coffee when Julius walked through the doorway .
5 Quickly slipping into a sleeveless straight shirt-waister dress of pink shantung , Laura was just fastening the last button when she heard the sound of the doorbell .
6 The duty plant operator , Lance-Corporal Adcock , was just finishing the first parade service on his equipment — a Henley Hermes fork-lift truck with a twenty-five-ton lifting capacity .
7 A new industrial relations court would be given a conciliation role with full powers of enforcement and damages , the right to take sympathy action would be restored , while secondary picketing would only be allowed where the second employer was directly assisting the first employer to frustrate the dispute .
8 If it was still going the third centenary would be approaching quicker than flames on dry moorland .
9 It , too , was moving fast , and was clearly chasing the first sledge .
10 I was now approaching the eighth green , a plateau with four deep bunkers cut into the face and sides and a pronounced slope at the back if you overshot .
11 In any case , there was no escaping the next move .
12 ‘ I was actually remembering the first part !
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