Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pron] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When I walked into the studio Blixa had his body miked up and they were punching him to get a bass drum beat . |
| 2 | Well there seems to be a slight mismatch there , and perhaps some of this mismatch is also a part of , with the confusion I have of the various shifting policy of York , in term in terms of their requirement , there has been in the in the not too recent recent past York were saying they had an additional requirement beyond need which they termed their concealed requirement , although it might not be a concealed dwellings , as we might otherwise describe them , of one thousand six hundred , and that has progressively come down to seven hundred as presented at this enquiry . |
| 3 | ‘ We were asking them to play the main role in caring for their children , but they felt their authority was being undermined by the assessments . |
| 4 | So you 're doing exactly what we were telling you to do a few weeks ago , that you had to er take money out of reserves or you had to cut down on the level of services if you were to avoid putting that thirty four pounds on the council tax bills this year . |
| 5 | Minutes afterwards , Fabia was still sitting stunned and hardly able to credit that she was going to Prague with Vendelin Gajdusek — that he was allowing her to use a spare room in his Prague hotel suite ! |
| 6 | She was unbearably aware of the tensile strength of his incipient beard beneath the shaven smoothness of his jaw , just as she was of the aroused hardness of his body , controlled , contained but testifying to his rampant masculinity in a way that was driving her to abandon the last remaining threads of self-control . |
| 7 | He was poising himself to launch a final attack on Grant , intending to finish him off at his leisure . |
| 8 | I was standing there and I was going I had the two pound in my pocket like but there 's no way I was giving her two pound so Bitch |
| 9 | He was sending her to face a hostile male and when everything was clearly laid down she was to spy on him — a thing she had refused so loudly . |
| 10 | But I mean when you think how long it was taking us taking a blank one of , and I know the |
| 11 | As I was leaving I made a big show of asking to see the guitar one more time . |
| 12 | Patrick was watching them play the 7th , which they had reached at 11.45 , when Richie 's voice crackled on the radio . |
| 13 | She goes that 's probably why she was telling me to get the flat ones cos she wo n't get them on . |
| 14 | On the fruitwood I was working it left an interesting rippled effect . |