Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [indef pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Felicity was wearing nothing but the great swirl of hair and the flower in it . |
| 2 | I walked in there and I can se he had a he had a er some copies and and er he was getting one in the bloody phone ! |
| 3 | During the lengthy period when the story was running none of the major media outfits dealt seriously with the question of why the fleeing Kurds had ended up carpeting the mountainsides in misery . |
| 4 | He was learning something of the dead man 's background , admittedly from a biased witness , but any policeman knows that all witnesses are biased in some degree . |
| 5 | And there 's , er , I mean it was showing somebody round the other day and we were talking about it and , and erm they 're saying , yeah I mean , you 've got seven urinals there , so let's say you have a busy night , you 're full , I mean that 's when damage gets done when people |
| 6 | The best Korf could think of was leaving everything to the provincial gentry , which Alexander had tried without success in his Moscow speech of March 1856 . |