Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was climbing up through this favela ; I should n't even have been there . |
| 2 | Yes , well I do n't particularly limit the area of what I 'm interested , but if someone who was particularly interested in seeing how history was going over in this school , then I 'd be very happy in discussing with them how they might try and find out how successful history teaching was in that school for example . |
| 3 | What the hell was going on with this place ? |
| 4 | It was going on through this song it 's ni , bur bur bur bur bur scratch right across the C D. |
| 5 | I was going out with this guy called John Colley whose relations were sort of minor gangsters in London and I went to work for them because they did n't mind my not being English . |
| 6 | was going out of this area to the providers of er of capital , for opportunities within this area we can go to London for example be many bankers there who will be being approached by companies within the northern region , north west region asking them for money to support them in their in their ventures . |
| 7 | Mum was getting on by this time and her own health was n't excellent , and I moved to Manchester so we could be near the RMCH where they do a vast amount with CF. We hired a retired nurse to act as housekeeper and she did his physio when I was n't there , and between us we managed to keep him going . ’ |
| 8 | She was getting out of this house for a while , she told herself with a resigned sigh . |
| 9 | It was n't a red-hot knife , it 's just simply that the surgeon had taken this knife , started to carve her abdomen open , and the heat part of the heat was the actual blood that was coming out of this wound . |
| 10 | But I think it was coming back in this match , and I would be disappointed not to be in the team to face France . |