Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] be [v-ing] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around 65% of people with meters found they were paying the same as or less than they did under the old system . |
| 2 | The thing that really motivated me was seeing the 1968 Olympics ; I saw Thommie Smith and thought , ‘ God , that 's it ! ’ |
| 3 | Since then he had tried to stay away from her , and it seemed she was doing the same , which did nothing to cool his interest . |
| 4 | But at the same time many , like Cobbett in Rural Rides , believed they were tackling the wrong problem in the wrong way . |
| 5 | On the day on which Saad Rashid had received the confirmation of the transaction from Switzerland , he had tidied his desk at the back of the Iraqi Airlines office , taken what few personal possessions he kept there and placed them in his briefcase , locked his door , pocketed his key , and told his assistant manager that he believed he was showing the first symptoms of the ‘ flu that was sweeping London . |
| 6 | On a ship the size of the Ocean Empress it was surprisingly easy , especially when it seemed he was adopting the same principle . |
| 7 | We surfed that channel in half the time it normally takes and then towards the end of our Connemara trip , even after a couple of longer crossings where she admitted she was cursing the disappearing stern of my glassfibres boat , she wanted to buy the Seayak . |
| 8 | He was only gone a moment or two and when he returned he was holding the complete clasp . |
| 9 | There had been rioting down by the docks , some said , but no one knew exactly where ; and Mrs Norris swore they were throwing the dead into mass graves , and half of them good Catholics without the last rites . |
| 10 | At the beginning of November 1989 Namaliu survived what was becoming the regular six-monthly vote of no confidence . |
| 11 | THE Algarve is a mixture of the most expensive and exclusive holiday homes in Europe and monstrous concrete high-rise blocks built before the authorities realised they were killing the golden goose of tourism . |
| 12 | Cottee admits : ‘ There were times when I felt I was carrying the whole world on my shoulders . ’ |
| 13 | At the same time I knew that my marriage had been a facade and in a way , by leaving , I felt I was doing the only honourable thing . |
| 14 | ‘ I just felt I was doing the same old thing , week after week , month after month . |
| 15 | I thought I was making the best of both answers |
| 16 | She fell silent for a moment and I saw she was watching the long heaving waves slip past our flanks . |
| 17 | Several times , Bernice thought she was getting the better of him , only to realise that he was toying with her expectations and reactions . |
| 18 | For a moment I thought she was going the same way as her father . |
| 19 | ‘ We felt we were creating the antinuclear movement from scratch , says Pete Roche , now an editor of SCRAM 's bi-monthly Safe Energy Journal , first published at the time and an invaluable guide to the growth of opposition . |
| 20 | I knew we were winning the real battle — a permanent cure — after one particular moment I shall never forget . |
| 21 | And thought we were doing the best possible thing we could do . |
| 22 | Thought we were doing the other side . |
| 23 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 24 | She knew he was remembering the last time they had drunk Martinis together and what she had said to him then . |
| 25 | She was silent a moment , thoughtful , and knew he was thinking the same thing . |
| 26 | But they all knew he was doing the right thing in joining the Legion , for her sake as well as his . |
| 27 | As soon as I realised I told him it must stop , but the next thing I knew he was spouting the same fiction to a reporter . ’ |
| 28 | SYDNEY ( Reuter ) — Australia 's airline pilots said they were withdrawing the 30 per cent pay claim at the heart of a dispute that has disrupted domestic air services and were seeking instead an unspecified rise based on a 25 per cent increase in productivity . |
| 29 | Had he been doing the same job when he was in Suffolk ? |
| 30 | They said he was disturbing the other pupils . |