Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , however , we now owe you money , since you were effectively acting as a salesman ! |
| 2 | I were only saying to a lady this morning about ee aye our Emma used to come to Leyland with a a wad of ten shilling notes new and we 'd go to er Southport would n't we ? |
| 3 | As we shall see , this may well have been politically motivated to the extent that the relics of the archbishop so recently and brutally murdered by Cnut 's countrymen were perhaps serving as a rallying point for discontent in the city . |
| 4 | And then another lunch was estimated at two hundred and eighty and forty-five came , and it kept swinging like that all week and they never knew what the hell was going to happen so they got really aggravated and then we had , you know , some of the kids , the Ban-the-Bezier group were wandering around with their face masks and their Type ninety bags over their heads and were saying crude things over a megaphone in Tom Quad , right and then these bowler hatted policemen , whoever they are , were patiently explaining to a number of girls who were sunbathing on the lawn that this was n't done quite that way here . |
| 5 | She and Boldwood were obviously going for a ride together . |
| 6 | After a decade of being made to feel that you were somehow lacking as a person if you did n't manage to cram thrice-weekly workouts into your schedule , it was high time that a good reason not to exercise emerged . |
| 7 | ‘ They were just waiting for a taxi . ’ |
| 8 | you know , cos we were all single I think all of us were and we were just going for a joke cos seriously it 's just a cattle market at you know you do n't talk to people well you do but it 's just a laugh . |
| 9 | They drove through the lemon groves , where early workers were just arriving in a lorry to pick the fruit and load it . |
| 10 | ‘ We were just talking about a case of Camille 's . ’ |
| 11 | Z Company were just returning from a fortnight 's well-earned leave while , as always , HQ Company were administering , paying , feeding , clothing and transporting the rest of the battalion . |
| 12 | In this context , I would argue that while the unleashing of widespread revolutionary activity in Latin America in the 1960s must obviously be attributed to the impact of the 1959 Cuban revolution , this event was essentially a catalyst , which supplied a model and a source of inspiration to a radicalised generation who were already looking for an alternative to the Soviet theory of ‘ revolution in stages ’ . |
| 13 | So the reason I asked that question is because I wanted to see if you were already thinking like an archaeologist . |
| 14 | Chief Supt David Foster said there was no indication of a sexual attack and police were still searching for a murder weapon . |
| 15 | Erm , but at the moment were still looking for a driver . |
| 16 | The remaining employers , during the negotiations which followed the mass meeting of 31 August and the threat of a strike , were still sticking at a compromise formula , one which Amelia McLean , putting the women 's case in The Vote , said she was prepared to accept , viz : a five-year ban on women entrants from 1 January 1911 , and the establishment of a 50 per cent distribution of Monotype keyboards between men and women . |
| 17 | Most of the people who went to Virginia or the West Indies were clearly looking for an opportunity to do better than they could in England , and if they made fortunes they would probably go back to England to enjoy their wealth , but the Massachusetts Bay Company was more concerned with escape from England or with the creation of a society that improved on its better aspects and rejected the worse . |
| 18 | Whatever the legal rights and wrongs , so long as the Angevins actually held Gisors they were clearly negotiating from a position of strength and could reasonably hope that one day the King of France would be forced to concede their case . |
| 19 | Material did come to me at EMI Publishing from EMI Records , and if we were interested in an act who were also looking for a record deal , we would pass the information through to EMI Records . |
| 20 | They discovered that the pair were also trading at a stall in Abingdon and by mail order . |
| 21 | They discovered that the pair were also trading at a stall in Abingdon and by mail order . |
| 22 | So we were really looking for a home for the turbine ( which needed a thirty-foot head of water ) , as well as for ourselves . |
| 23 | Scientists from the NEC corporation in Japan have developed a Virtual Reality ski slope that is so realistic users experience exactly the same stress as if they were really hurtling down a mountain . |
| 24 | We were now floating between a world of the street-wise , the gentle hippie , the communal ‘ crash pad ’ , the lecture hall , the courts , the addiction unit or hospital casualty department , and the front page . |
| 25 | The British were then looking for a 'strongman solution " to the problem of keeping their influence in Iran . |
| 26 | The band were initially looking for a lighting rig and a PA system to do a gig in Aberdeen and obtained them from the music shop she worked in . |
| 27 | If the banks were previously operating with a cash reserves ratio above their desired ratio , however , the potential that exists for them to expand their deposits is reduced . |
| 28 | The idea of citizenship itself had a special status during the late Victorian and Edwardian periods as politicians , philosophers , educationalists , and social scientists were continually calling for a revival of the concept , by which they had in mind a form of social organization stressing harmony , duty , service , self-realization , rationality , and morally good behaviour . |
| 29 | They collapsed on the ground , gasping , black in the face , their hair covered with charred paper that was slowly settling like a shower of tiny , black , bird 's wings . |
| 30 | Peppard Golf Club was slowly grinding to a half ( blitzed Londoners were housed in the simple wooden clubhouse ) and two of its trophies were sent to Henley , a more durable looking Club . |