Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [was/were] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out drinking with a couple of female journalists ( in what was supposedly Hemingway 's favourite bar in Havana , if you must know ) , I mentioned I was writing this article and we all launched into our favourite New Age stories , like the one about the Immortalists , a group who take to its logical end the New Age philosophy of positive thinking and creating your own reality , and have decided they are going to live forever . |
| 2 | It should n't have taken her long to pack and change out of her sundress into a skirt and blouse , but she found she was folding each garment at least twice , and several times she stood looking out of the window at the busy yard below . |
| 3 | There 's been nothing very dramatic since the secretive and highly confidential opening , when the teacher started with : " I 've been told about the wreck of a Roman Galley , which is buried in mud off the coast near Pompeii ; and it 's said that when it sank it was carrying great chests of treasure from Egypt . " |
| 4 | Adam found he was holding both hands clamped over his mouth . |
| 5 | Serbs found it was carrying more ammunition than was listed on the manifest , a Bosnian Serb officer said . |
| 6 | A lot of those promoting the policies really believed in them , believed they were doing positive work . |
| 7 | When Putnam and Buchsbaum analysed the waveforms produced by each personality it seemed they were examining 60 people , instead of 20 . |
| 8 | He jabbered away to his friends , and Ellie assumed he was explaining that item number one was a drink . |
| 9 | I reckoned we were doing more damage to Naamen 's image than the demonstrators . |
| 10 | In a development that highlighted Rosyth 's struggle to survive , the MoD last night confirmed it was giving serious consideration to an attempt by Devonport to poach a £28 million ship refitting contract already awarded to the Fife yard . |
| 11 | We were engaged , within weeks of marriage , when I discovered she was seeing another man . |
| 12 | I heard they were getting great preview reaction . ’ |
| 13 | The Marquis still faces charges of dodging taxi fares , but the case was adjourned after a court heard he was receiving psychiatric treatment . |
| 14 | ‘ I heard he was making some kind of detective story with McQueen . ’ |
| 15 | When I first started I were getting fourteen shilling a day . |
| 16 | They rang the various commercial recorded lines which hinted they were offering sexual innuendo , which proved only to be glamour girls talking about dieting or holiday-making . |
| 17 | Neighbour Kathy Burn said : ‘ We heard a bang and thought someone was doing some DIY work . |
| 18 | The ultimate warning over ouija comes from a high-ranking chaos magician who knew I was writing this book . |
| 19 | I was so high on adrenalin that for all I knew I was talking utter rubbish . |
| 20 | ‘ If I thought I was causing any pain to the fish I would n't go fishing and I think all anglers feel that way , ’ he says . |
| 21 | Juliet felt she was seeing another side to her mother , sensitive , vulnerable , and brave . |
| 22 | You might get a real bad one and then you had a rough time but mostly they gave way and very often , if you got a drunk , another policeman saw you were having some difficulty . |
| 23 | She taught in a health club ; aerobics , that kind of thing , and the next we knew she was wearing hot pants on a street corner in New York and strutting her stuff at the cars . |
| 24 | Sweeping waves of desire were pitching Sarella headlong to the point where she knew she was leaving common sense behind . |
| 25 | Jitters knew she was doing two people a favour , because Fat Juanita got depressed when the johnny-passing-throughs left her downstairs in the parlour with her knitting and gave all the custom to Gretchen , Connie Calzone , Margaret Running Deer and the Games Mistress . |
| 26 | This sight brought her immediately down from her high , tragic pinnacle and made it seem all somehow cosier , as she thought she was sharing this music with such a wise and friendly dog . |
| 27 | Of course I 'm sorry , for some strange reason I thought we were going that way , I 've got to go through the other way have n't I ? |
| 28 | Another neighbour , Dr Charles Wright , said : ‘ We knew they were having marital difficulties , but Jane would n't tell anyone why she wanted a divorce . ’ |
| 29 | IF they thought they were breaking new ground by having the Institute of Directors host a discussion on the lack of women in the boardroom , then Donald Hardie , its Scottish director , and Henry Fairweather , Scottish & Newcastle 's personnel director who put the idea forward , were right — in more ways than one . |
| 30 | The ‘ New Style ’ Calendar was adopted in Britain in 1752 but not without some opposition from some who thought they were losing several days of their life . |