Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [verb] [pron] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Campbells were waiting to greet him in the hall , and Elizabeth saw him for the first time . |
| 2 | And they were going to put them in the shape of an arrowhead . |
| 3 | They were going to put us in the workhouse . |
| 4 | His face and body were a mass of bruises after he had been attacked at his home by a forty-strong mob who were preparing to lynch him in the remains of his once beautiful garden when the military had arrived and bundled him into the back of a police van and brought him to La Tambier . |
| 5 | But now he was going to see her in the flesh . |
| 6 | Deeply afraid that this man was going to put me in a cage . |
| 7 | She was going to put it in the china vase , only one of the stage hands had left his lighter there for safe keeping , so she stuffed it between two books on the top shelf . |
| 8 | She thought someone was coming to fetch her in a boat to take her away . |
| 9 | ‘ I was coming to find you in a minute . |
| 10 | And this goblin came along one day and says to this peedie fairy that like he was coming to get her in the morning . |
| 11 | And that 's I was trying to put myself in the position of before . |
| 12 | He was trying to put her in the wrong again . |
| 13 | I met a scum fan on the bus home from town late on Saturday night who was trying to tell me in a very loud voice that Strachan was now ‘ past it ’ and ‘ knackered ’ . |
| 14 | Sooner or later she would have found out for herself , and the interrogation would have been worse still if she 'd thought Rory was trying to keep her in the dark about such a momentous event in her life . |