Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] was [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 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was no accident , and I knew I was looking at several hundred pounds ' worth of damage . |
| 11 | I asked him what he thought of Magritte the other day , and he thought I was talking about some girl in first year . |
| 12 | Well that 's what I thought I was going for this morning as well as that one . |
| 13 | She felt she was speaking for millions of would-be mothers in rejecting a child because it was mentally handicapped ; regrettably , she was . |
| 14 | oh I 'm sorry I thought you was talking about ninety four , ninety five |
| 15 | ( I thought she was joking about that , but actually she was n't . ) |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If he thought she was falling for that … |
| 18 | When I looked up I saw it was coming from two smartly dressed men on the long bench-seat opposite . |
| 19 | Mrs Stevenson told The Art Newspaper , ‘ Ted has a golden eye , but the board felt he was lacking in certain areas that were necessary here ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Help me ! ’ said a voice in his head , and Jack knew he was listening to one of the Ram children . |
| 21 | Roger 's face had flushed , and she knew he was thinking about that wallet . |
| 22 | ‘ Or , let me say , I knew he was behaving as other people 's fathers did n't behave . |
| 23 | They thought it was dying from old age , but I did n't think so , though , to tell the truth , I was n't quite sure what was wrong with it . |
| 24 | She rather thought he was hoping for some reciprocal comment or gesture , but for the life of her , whether he thought it unforgivable or not , she just had to burst out laughing , and ‘ Lubor ! ’ she laughed . |
| 25 | He thought he was suffering from some sort of glandular disease . |
| 26 | I thought he was going for three weeks . |
| 27 | Anyway , he insisted he was coming at half past seven . |
| 28 | Graeme Wright , editor of Wisden since 1986 , announced he was quitting at last night 's launch of the 1992 edition , held at the East India Club , London . |
| 29 | Then the 62-year-old globetrotter from Bristol revealed he was looking for two more women ! |
| 30 | In a fitful sleep I dreamt I was swimming through drowned villages . |