Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when she found she was putting on some weight , she took up swimming regularly . |
| 2 | Castenada ( 1970 ) , for example , found he was dealing with new events and totally new ways of understanding . |
| 3 | Ludens , amazed at his own emotion , found he was kneeling on one knee . |
| 4 | Rain believed he was reaching towards one of the cups on the table , but Barbara Coleman stood across the table from him and she recoiled . |
| 5 | At first doctors believed he was suffering from little more than sunstroke . |
| 6 | It was n't until Joanna Venet was seven months old that her mother , Rosemerry , realised she was suffering from brittle bones |
| 7 | As he warmed to his theme , George forgot he was talking to one individual , and through him to a huge lay audience . |
| 8 | She and her best friend cried when they heard I was leaving for another job . |
| 9 | An NOP poll in the Independent on Sunday showed the Tories 13 points behind Labour , while a Mori poll in The Sunday Times indicated they were trailing by 10 points . |
| 10 | But when they tried to leave Nepal , officials discovered they were travelling on fake visas , bought in good faith . |
| 11 | It was not until they had just left the Church that Joan discovered they were going for two weeks to Tenerife . |
| 12 | And when we were down in the kitchen the partition between the butt and the bairn as they called it was going like that inside of the house in the gale . |
| 13 | ’ Nappy Wars ’ hit the headlines in January , when Peaudouce and Procter & Gamble announced they were moving to unbleached paper . |
| 14 | In the space of a week no fewer than five North Harbour players of various stature announced they were leaving for substantial playing-working contracts in Japan , ranging from two to three years . |
| 15 | It was no accident , and I knew I was looking at several hundred pounds ' worth of damage . |
| 16 | I asked him what he thought of Magritte the other day , and he thought I was talking about some girl in first year . |
| 17 | Well that 's what I thought I was going for this morning as well as that one . |
| 18 | She felt she was speaking for millions of would-be mothers in rejecting a child because it was mentally handicapped ; regrettably , she was . |
| 19 | oh I 'm sorry I thought you was talking about ninety four , ninety five |
| 20 | ‘ I thought you were referring to that episode at Rocamar . |
| 21 | Sorry I thought you were talking about two |
| 22 | I thought you were talking about this morning . |
| 23 | ( I thought she was joking about that , but actually she was n't . ) |
| 24 | Both girls thought she was joking at first but when she recounted word for word the interview she had had with Moran they exploded into wild laughter . |
| 25 | If he thought she was falling for that … |
| 26 | I think people felt we were aiming for this point , but we never had the opportunity to do it before . |
| 27 | I hope we were n't discussing what I thought we were discussing on that |
| 28 | I thought we were talking about one man , Philippe Maurin ? ’ |
| 29 | Well I thought we were going to any other business first . |
| 30 | it went they were racing like that , and a car come that way , so went that way |