Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's his birthday , Monsieur Armand , but I 'm afraid we were spoiling it by having a political discussion . ’ |
| 2 | I thought that if FAKINTIL were confining themselves to bringing the mast down , then they would be just escaping now , shooting their way out of town . |
| 3 | At dinner one evening , we were congratulating him on getting the job and he mentioned this educational remit and that he had no idea what to do . |
| 4 | Rebecca was accusing her of starting the fire , and he was doing nothing to dispute the idea . |
| 5 | My mum was really upset because he was accusing her of having an affair with another man . |
| 6 | He was accusing her of having the morals of an alleycat again , and she was tired of it . |
| 7 | I was keeping it for cleaning the car . |
| 8 | She was kicking herself for forgetting the most basic Capricorn trait of allowing nothing to stand in the way of their goal . |
| 9 | She was shredding something by holding the tip of the blade and moving the handle of the knife around in an arc , her head on one side . |
| 10 | She 'd also left the heating on for him , which was doing nothing except heating the window-sill for the pigeons and running up my bills . |
| 11 | There I was congratulating myself on surviving the winter without so much as a sniffle , when I was suddenly struck down without warning . |
| 12 | He was either out and had n't switched on the answering machine or he was tormenting her by ignoring the telephone . |