Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We broke windows accidentally , we were throwing erm in fact I was only talking about whip and top the other day , and erm er which was a a game we used to play . |
| 2 | Her daughter was eagerly moving towards womanhood and would not be stopped . |
| 3 | He was still cursing in French and English . |
| 4 | Vigo was still savouring with pride and joy his caller 's astonishment . |
| 5 | Money was bad , but he was still working for Liberty and picked up work on Pageant magazine . |
| 6 | She was still tingling with pleasure and her cheeks burned when she realised that if he came back he could just take up where he had left off and she would not do a thing to stop him . |
| 7 | He was still suffering from jet-lag but opted to plunge in at the deep end against Monaghan . |
| 8 | Even if such remarks are not to be taken literally , Craigbarnet was clearly living in poverty and was burdened with a ‘ numerous family ’ . |
| 9 | She wrote an article about evangelical Christianity , in which she complained bitterly about a particular writer , a Doctor Cumming , who she said was not merely intellectually dishonest in attempting , by slipper means , to reconcile traditional Christian belief with certain new kinds of discovery in archaeology and so on , but he was also lacking in charity and the way which he hammered everybody who did n't subscribe to his particular form of religious believe did n't seem to her to be anything to do with the true spirit of Christianity , so she was discontented with that form of Victorian religion . |
| 10 | Arthritic and near blind , he found he was also suffering from cancer and in human years would have been aged around 90 . |
| 11 | The AWB , he said , was now preparing for revolution and its main priority would be the strengthening of its commandos . |
| 12 | This was particularly striking for control and variety and use of skills . |
| 13 | Freed , furthermore , after 1870 from the embarrassment of the papal states and continually reinforced by its growing missionary societies , the Church was manifestly expanding in number and influence all through the first half of the twentieth century , when other large Churches were only too clearly declining rather than advancing . |
| 14 | Rose was almost weeping with fear and frustration . |
| 15 | Francis was almost weeping with anger and frustration . |
| 16 | Sally-Anne was almost choking between rage and fear . |
| 17 | The most interesting shows the upper part of a woman wrapped in a cloak , who was evidently standing in profile but turns her Daedalic face to us . |
| 18 | She could n't recall stirring but when she came to the end of the journal and looked up , bemused and far away , not recognizing her surroundings for a while , the room was faintly glowing with fire and candlelight and the sky beyond the windows was inky blue . |