Example sentences of "[adj] was [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was said that Harry Short 's great strength was that he had never tried to imitate smarter trainers , that he played by his rules , was his own man , but even this was flattering him . |
| 2 | They ran away , although this was taking them further into the old town when they had hoped to escape from it . |
| 3 | Abruptly Fabia pulled herself together ; this was getting her nowhere . |
| 4 | Actually , the speaker that was talking about this was suggesting we give them an enormous amount of real tangible assets , er without it costing us anything . |
| 5 | In the past they had waited until after the school screening tests at 7-plus but felt that this was leaving it too late . |
| 6 | No doubt I had a lot to learn , but this was boring me . |
| 7 | This was costing him a small fortune . |
| 8 | This was telling them — trying to bolster their morale — that we were coming to their aid when it was virtually impossible for us to aid them at that time . |
| 9 | But did they know , did Rosen and Kennedy have any idea how much all this was hurting her ? |
| 10 | This was having something in common with your lover , she thought , remembering the way it had been with Mike , who was interested only in banking and golf and what he called making a home for one 's family . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought so too , ’ Jenna murmured , trying to get her agitated breathing under control , quite sure that this was doing her no good at all when she had been told to go very carefully for a while . |
| 12 | All this was making my muscles feel slack and unused , and I wanted to sprint up the street just to feel myself alive again . |
| 13 | Oh , all this was making it so much harder to refuse . |
| 14 | That this was interesting me . |
| 15 | Th this this was putting it very simply . |
| 16 | I remember recording 13 groups in one day , and the only thing that kept me sane was knowing I was getting music together with Enya . |
| 17 | In a short study it is impossible to deal in depth with the vastly complex web of politics that surrounded Barbarossa ; a glance at the list of popes shows just how complex the situation was ; hardly had any pope become established and negotiations opened , than another was taking his place . |
| 18 | The effort to remain rigid was making her body quiver and she groaned against his neck , ‘ Make love to me … ’ |
| 19 | She ran out and tried to send me away but I pretended Sabine was expecting me , so she took me to the studio . |
| 20 | But nothing much was replacing it . |
| 21 | Now that so much was happening I felt better . |
| 22 | While the Chancellor was delivering his speech , prices were heading upwards and the FT-SE 100 was nearing its all-time peak of 2737.8 . |
| 23 | ‘ The worst was keeping my hands from my dagger and my mouth shut . |
| 24 | While the Second Crusade was dragging on , Richard 's father Henry II was consolidating his dynastic empire and England was in a state of civil war — which explains why no English king had yet appeared personally in the crusades . |
| 25 | Their intimate conversations were usually by phone — and late at night , while Diana was away from Highgrove , and Camilla 's brigadier husband , Andrew , 52 was leading his largely-separate life in London and Aldershot , Hants . |
| 26 | Sir Charles Morrison , Mr Simon Parker-Bowles , and Norman Squires , and his wife , the latter was enjoying her first visit to London ! |
| 27 | This , at any rate , was the offer which Richard made to the King of France while the latter was disbanding his mercenaries at Bourges . |
| 28 | By training a teacher of the deaf , the latter was celebrating his silver jubilee as superintendent missioner at Leeds during the year of the Cardiff Congress . |
| 29 | The human rights organization Amnesty International was supporting his case , claiming that he was suffering " life-threatening " diseases which could not be treated in prison . |
| 30 | ‘ A man at Railfreight International was doing his best but someone along the line at York said it was too much hassle . |