Example sentences of "was [Wh adv] [pron] [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was how it was going to be between them , just as she made him sleep on the floor beside their honeymoon bed in the Ritz . |
| 2 | So this was how it was going to be from now on , Maria accepted as she turned to go and find the keys . |
| 3 | Fabia arose on Sunday morning , thought of Cara , of Barney , and of the man she had never yet met but , with guilty conscience , hoped to , and then attempted to shed her anxieties by remembering that , with Františkovy Láznë being less than twenty-five miles away , Františkovy Láznë was where she was heading for that day . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , she did , but it was when we were going to the station to see him off . |
| 5 | It was when they were assembling for dinner that they had noticed her absence . |
| 6 | Another experience was when he was praying before the crucifix in San Damiano and it seemed to him that it gave him the message , " Build my church " , which he immediately interpreted quite literally as , " Save this church from crumbling into ruins " . |
| 7 | Sometimes they used it on him when he was waiting to be served by a barman , or even when he was just standing waiting to cross a busy street , but mostly it was when he was talking to somebody official . |
| 8 | It was when I was living in New York , in Greenwich Village , in 1974 , after completing a semester of ‘ creative writing workshops ’ at Ohio University , where I had been very happy . |
| 9 | ‘ My only real previous acting experience was when I was working for Walt Disney Productions and had to visit sick children in hospital dressed up in a Pluto costume . |
| 10 | It was when I was working for Walt Disney , so it 'll be two years ago . |
| 11 | ‘ It was when I was working on Wildlife Safari to Argentina , filming in a subtropical province in the north , that I got this lump on my back . |
| 12 | ‘ As a matter of fact , the really nasty bit was when I was walking across here , coming over the head of the cliff there with the wind trying to blow me out to sea again . ’ |
| 13 | Oh , that was when I was waiting in the queue were n't it ? |
| 14 | No I was a , it was when I was going to work , in was in the afternoon like . |
| 15 | And this was when you were living in Hatfield ? |
| 16 | It was when you were playing with it with your fingers , do you remember ? |
| 17 | Of course Herman loves her whisperings — for he is always convinced that he will catch a word or two — but all he has ever heard was when she was going from the dining-room to the drawing-room after lunch with him , and she whispered : ‘ I hate sauces . |
| 18 | Er we showed him one or two examples of similar sorts of presentations that we 'd had from other railway and outside organizations , er explained what we 'd done in the past , said that we were looking to get something more up-market and more erm professional , which was why we were looking to er er seek er quotes from er g graphics designers , linked in with printers . |
| 19 | Oh yes , it was , is it that , that was why we were looking for them to pick them out ? |
| 20 | and that was why they were moaning about it |
| 21 | And they 'd call again later , which was why I was working by a single-bulb desk lamp , quickskimming the liquid and document overflow from my filing cabinets . |