Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was only trying to give you some support , Claudia . ’ |
| 2 | I was just going to bring you some . ’ |
| 3 | But he was still going to miss his own bed ! |
| 4 | Sir Dick was also planning to write his own life story despite Government disapproval of such books . |
| 5 | You could see he was now beginning to wonder what all this was leading up to . |
| 6 | I know Chris was here doing doing his own calculations on books but after that I mean the I think on the Sunday I he came in and did some work . |
| 7 | More and more , Beth found herself acting as the buffer between them , and curiously enough , at times when she sought to protect him , it seemed as though she was actually having to fight her own husband . |
| 8 | It was impossible to hold back when she looked at you like that , half cross and half loving , because they had always been very close , with no secrets at all except the one about Tristram Pascoe , and she was never going to tell anyone that , not even her mother . |
| 9 | I told her she was telling porkies because I knew for sure that God put it there as a sign he was never going to drown us all again or otherwise wreck the planet . |