Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was only thinking about you the other day , David , ’ said his grandmother , settling herself in a high-backed chair , her feet planted firmly on the floral Axminster carpet . |
| 2 | The epilogue to this evening 's survival devotions was , strange as it may seem , exactly as I should have expected it to turn out , I do not remember when I missed — or at what stage — my flight engineer , but when I returned to camp and was literally wallowing in what the High Master at Command had to say to me . |
| 3 | She had hoped for Pascoe 's sake that the MacQuillan affair would fade from his mind , but perhaps his memory was already concealing from him the truth about the killing . |
| 4 | It took three and a half months and I was just wondering about it the whole time and I thought , ‘ Man , it 's either going to be so good that I 'm never going to want to play another guitar , or it 's going to suck . |
| 5 | He was not looking at what the girl was doing with the match . |