Example sentences of "and [was/were] [v-ing] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and were hoping to get somebody from Bishop 's Stortford I think it 's important to have a , and I 'm also going to ask Bob , the ambulance driver if he 's free to come , I think we can use the . |
| 2 | The Husayns seemed to have got hold of a piece of pottery and were trying to stuff it under Khan 's coat . |
| 3 | With this came the news that the Barclay brothers had offered to buy the statue and were proposing to put it on show alternately in the V & A and the National Gallery of Scotland . |
| 4 | In any case , he was eager to start work upon another play and was trying to extricate himself from various official duties in order to give himself room for composition : he resigned from the board of the Christian News Letter , for example , on the grounds of lack of time . |
| 5 | A man , a large man , was beating a woman , a little woman who seemed scarcely more than a child , and was trying to drag her into one of the tenements which lined the opposite side of the road . |
| 6 | For a moment , Implexion thought she meant their affair and was attempting to push it into the realms of firm commitment . |
| 7 | Gabriel had cut inside the turn and was racing to meet them on their other flank . |