Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [pron] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Minutes afterwards , Fabia was still sitting stunned and hardly able to credit that she was going to Prague with Vendelin Gajdusek — that he was allowing her to use a spare room in his Prague hotel suite ! |
| 2 | She was unbearably aware of the tensile strength of his incipient beard beneath the shaven smoothness of his jaw , just as she was of the aroused hardness of his body , controlled , contained but testifying to his rampant masculinity in a way that was driving her to abandon the last remaining threads of self-control . |
| 3 | He was poising himself to launch a final attack on Grant , intending to finish him off at his leisure . |
| 4 | I was standing there and I was going I had the two pound in my pocket like but there 's no way I was giving her two pound so Bitch |
| 5 | He was sending her to face a hostile male and when everything was clearly laid down she was to spy on him — a thing she had refused so loudly . |
| 6 | But I mean when you think how long it was taking us taking a blank one of , and I know the |
| 7 | As I was leaving I made a big show of asking to see the guitar one more time . |
| 8 | Patrick was watching them play the 7th , which they had reached at 11.45 , when Richie 's voice crackled on the radio . |
| 9 | She goes that 's probably why she was telling me to get the flat ones cos she wo n't get them on . |
| 10 | On the fruitwood I was working it left an interesting rippled effect . |