Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was using stiffer rods and he was using softer ones . |
| 2 | The point of the story is that when I was using softer rods and he favoured stiffer ones we both caught , relatively speaking , no fewer fish than we do today . |
| 3 | ‘ Franca , girl , forgive me for walking in , I had the key , remember , from when you gave it to me when I was staying here when I was getting better . |
| 4 | When I was getting better , he told me some of the local news . |
| 5 | We were on holiday in the Aegean when I was getting better from this talking thing and she was reading Crime and Punishment , and I used to watch her toes and wonder which part she had got to . |
| 6 | said I was getting better she 's telling off . |
| 7 | Speaking of the wind , it was getting stronger and I was getting colder . |
| 8 | I was whirling it round and round — I was getting tireder and tireder and wondering how long I could go on … |
| 9 | I was getting warmer . |
| 10 | I was becoming thinner and thinner . |
| 11 | And as the disease progressed , all the anxieties became more difficult to ignore — necessarily , because I was growing older and , in my regressive , pre-pubertal state , more of an anomaly than ever among my peers . |
| 12 | Well the , the bed , there were no spring beds in , that came into my life until many years after , were the old straw palliasses , which were really more hygienic to sleep on than your spring beds , because you get the lumbar trouble with a straw palliasses cos it was just hip firm , I give you an instance I used to , as I was growing older I used to fold my trousers and put them under the mattress to press my trousers so I 'd always got a nice crease in my trousers , they were so solid that er you got y you did n't even get any wrinkles in your trousers in those days . |
| 13 | I flew too high , and then I was going higher , faster , I could n't stop , like a feather finding a vent I just shot up to the spindle , and there I stuck , dangling in zero-g I kicked and flailed , I was hopeless , I had no idea how to get away I had n't got anything I could throw I could n't even see straight anyway , my eyes were tearing The pollution was pretty bad up there , I started coughing , and then I could n't stop |
| 14 | Keeping the best for last , as I was saying earlier ? |
| 15 | Within the hour I was feeling better and ready to tackle the billeting office . |
| 16 | I thought that this was a most extraordinary conversation to be having about one 's intended groom , but I was feeling lighter . |
| 17 | " No , and I was glad to see him , even though he did say I was gettin' fatter . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd really like to run the 400 , but I would n't be disappointed if someone was running better than me and they decided to take him , ’ said Black , whose domestic pre-eminence was sensationally ended by Grindley in Barcelona . |
| 19 | In 1977 , the area was hit by massive floods which were made worse by the strip mining operations , leaving thousands of people homeless . |
| 20 | Nor can it be wholly explained by the employment changes which were pushing greater numbers of people into the market irrespective of wage trends . |
| 21 | The present pattern of Business Studies degrees , in many respects , reflects the state of thinking of commerce degrees of the late 30s , most of which had disappeared by or soon after 1950 , in favour of a more discipline-oriented approach in which there were substantial new elements , with the appearance of sociology and politics , both of which were to acquire greater prominence . |
| 22 | They had not stopped working as from the stairs Ralph could hear the monotonous sound of gushing water working away the flames which were becoming hotter and higher , burning everything in sight . |
| 23 | One concomitant of the close link between landed patrons and Anglican clergy was a growing divorce between the church and people which was made worse by the generally lax state of the eighteenth-century diocese of Chichester . |
| 24 | But others felt the bins themselves presented a health hazard which was made worse by inadequate servicing in the summer . |
| 25 | But Didone has a peculiarity which was to mark later Italian opera , including L'incoronazione : the part of Jarba , Dido 's rejected lover , who in the end saves her from suicide , is a castrato singing in a higher register than Dido herself ; Nerone and Ottone are in the same predicament . |
| 26 | Mait limped painfully down a connecting gallery , desperately clinging on to the enhancer , which was getting heavier with every passing moment . |
| 27 | I saw this good-looking redhead with a bust to challenge Shakti 's — a sight which was getting rarer and rarer as women were made to get thinner and thinner for the convenience of the multi-billion dress designing industry , much easier and hence more economical and hence more profitable to clothe a bean pole than an hour glass — walking my way . |
| 28 | A crash in share prices , which was to prove greater than that of 1929 , was well underway : between September 1973 and September 1974 they were to fall by between 23 per cent in Japan and 55 per cent in the United Kingdom . |
| 29 | When the press photographers took pictures the following morning their pictures of chaos were somehow symbolic of the chaos which was growing worse in Romania . |
| 30 | This created an awkward situation , since Waismann was expounding some of Wittgenstein 's earlier ideas while Wittgenstein himself was developing later ideas in his own classes . |