Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] [adv] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His blue eyes were gazing far away and his wife knew that he was thinking of that distant evening when he and Mrs Curdle had first met , on just such an April evening , many years ago . |
| 2 | They were rowing as fast as they could towards the ship ! |
| 3 | Things were happening too easily and it made her nervous , even though he was Mrs Bradford 's brother . |
| 4 | For a while during the 1970s these counterurban tendencies were operating so powerfully that they replaced the North-South drift as a primary dimension of regional population change in Britain ( Champion , 1983 ) . |
| 5 | We were going as fast as we could . ’ |
| 6 | Things were going as badly as they could . |
| 7 | Things were going so well that she did n't want anyone else interfering with what she had worked so hard for . |
| 8 | Things , George said eventually , were going so smoothly that one should expect disaster any time now , eh ? |
| 9 | Although the French may have persuaded themselves that they were moving as fast as they could towards the ‘ perfection ’ of Vietnamese independence , it was perhaps indulgent of Acheson to have allowed himself to be persuaded as well . |
| 10 | The contractions were coming quite quickly but they just did n't feel like proper contractions . |
| 11 | Alternatively , we might feel that people who took care to give different media sources exactly the same rating on an eleven-point scale were indicating quite strongly that they found them equally useful . |
| 12 | She pulled herself up sharply , realising that tears were threatening right now and she was n't even home yet . |
| 13 | But f***ing Newcastle … we did n't get this much parise our first season back … and I think we were doing as well as they are . |
| 14 | Usually , to please Father , I would also go on a quick visit to one of his shops and sometimes I wondered if they were doing as well as he pretended . |
| 15 | There were marvellous areas of growth , like Caribbean cruising with the fantastic prices and quality incidental to the impact of all the extra tonnage , and the ferries were doing so well that it would be a good idea to discourage people from turning up in hordes at Dover unticketed . |
| 16 | We were breathing together again and there were no barriers of disbelief between us . |
| 17 | Although Laura 's formal education finished prematurely , she showed a remarkable capacity for intellectual growth in the middle years of her life : many of her ideas were changing so fast that her colleagues often found it difficult to keep pace . |
| 18 | The research of the great ecologist David Lack ( 1954 ) showed for example that in many bird species of temperate zones , individuals were reproducing as fast as they were able and that the subsequent population was cut back every year by winter mortality . |
| 19 | Her heart was thumping so loudly that she wondered for a fleeting second whether Scott could hear it . |
| 20 | " You , " said Grace , mock-severely ( her heart was fluttering quite uncomfortably and she could feel a most immature desire to blush and simper rising within her ) , " are a naughty boy , and I shall have to keep you in your place , I can see that . " |
| 21 | Her heart was galloping so fast that she felt quite giddy with happiness . |
| 22 | The escape pod was rotating so rapidly that its four occupants were pinned against their couches . |
| 23 | This was proving even harder than she 'd anticipated , she thought , nervous hilarity bubbling up inside her . |
| 24 | Watching him secretly from under her lashes , she revelled in his evident pleasure , and could n't help wondering whether he was driving so smoothly because he did n't want to wake her … or because he always drove like a man making love . |
| 25 | Luckily for ‘ Bluey , ’ Brian operates the Central Fisheries Board tag and release scheme , so soon after weighing , the shark was swimming merrily away albeit it with a brightly coloured plastic tag at the back of his dorsal fin . |
| 26 | By the time he 'd captured her flailing arms , and crushed her hips close enough to minimise damage from her kicking feet , she was shivering so convulsively that she felt almost feverish . |
| 27 | So well had her work progressed at the Lodge , and so greatly — for all the discomfort — had she enjoyed her solitude , that Louisa momentarily tried defiance ; but she was shivering uncontrollably even as she did so . |
| 28 | Perdita was trembling so badly that she could hardly zip up her boots . |
| 29 | But I was trembling so badly that it shook the knife out of my skin , and I could move again . |
| 30 | Cassie , who by now was trembling so violently that she could not trust herself to lift the loaded tray , said lightly : ‘ Take the tray , will you , Jenny ? |