Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time he came off to a huge ovation , Essex were dawdling along at 99-3 off 36 overs . |
| 2 | I were tidying up at half past six this morning . |
| 3 | David Cordery , operations manager for Oxford , told The Bookseller that the robbery happened at about 5.30 p.m. when two staff were cashing up at one of the shop 's three tills . |
| 4 | The professionals who had survived the cut were teeing off from 8 till 11 . |
| 5 | He was darting up to each of the dogs in turn , ears pricked , eyes blazing with devilment , dabbing a paw at them then streaking away . |
| 6 | I was in the car park and er , I got back into the car and , with Mrs , the phone rang and it was erm Mr , he was going out at half past three . |
| 7 | Erm , because I was going out for half past two and er , she rang , she says he has n't rung yet so I assume he 's going to be home . |
| 8 | It was getting on for two in the afternoon as she crossed the Rådhuspladsen on her way towards the old part of the town . |
| 9 | There seemed nothing I could usefully add to whatever Henniker might be doing , and as it was getting on for half past twelve I decided to find a pub and a sandwich . |
| 10 | It was getting on for ten of the storm-lashed grim night clock when the headlights appeared . |
| 11 | A bomb blew up the Hongkong and Shanghai Bank building and the nearby NatWest tower on April 24th , just as life in London 's financial centre was getting back to normal after a similar episode in April 1992 . |
| 12 | Mm , yeah but I was coming out at half past nine |
| 13 | And as the 1950s ended time was running out on both of these scores , as became increasingly evident during the later years of Macmillan 's premiership . |
| 14 | Estimates suggest that the peasantry as a whole was giving up over one-third of its total rice output for much of the period , but in some areas it may have been much higher . |
| 15 | Horrified , she was glancing up at one of the windows above the porch and what she saw blanched what little remaining colour she had from her face . |
| 16 | Alexei was leaning out of one of the upper windows . |
| 17 | Dark blood was welling up from both of them . |