Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [was/were] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | gear with my forehead with such force that my goggles , which I was wearing luckily , were shattered and my face badly bruised and bleeding profusely . |
| 2 | I had a pair of ruby earrings which I was wearing when Bill died . |
| 3 | My two realities were getting this thing done technically to technical excellence , which I was struggling with as I did n't know my stuff so well then , and also , managing to get a good performance out of David . |
| 4 | I am aware of that provision , to which I was referring before I gave way to my right hon. Friend — and I hope that it will be widely understood by parents throughout the country . |
| 5 | well so that 's how it 's pleaded and that 's how we built it into the , these cases which I was referring to where an agreement is the object or the , the means or the consequence of an agreement , they enforce within five , the action is unlawful and of course there 's the final and fourth way in which it could be devoured this , because it , and again quoting the words from the cases , tends to have restricted affect on the market , I think your Lordship you can see how we pleaded it in paragraph two , two , three , it 's enforcing the consequence of the unlawful underline previous . |
| 6 | Phrases like ‘ Light of the World ’ , ‘ the Sun of Righteousness that setteth nevermore ’ and so on ran through my head without ceasing , and the mere sight of the sun was sufficient greatly to intensify this manic excitement under which I was labouring . |
| 7 | From 1943 onwards he probably did n't miss a single performance in which I was taking part and he must have seen Us in Traviata every time it was done . |
| 8 | How far all this was homesickness or a defensive strategy against ( anticipated ? ) rejection by the surrounding community , or just sheer stubbornness , I now ca n't tell , but I knew even then that it had nothing to do with the world in which I was trying to live . |
| 9 | In the idealised world of childhood , to which I was trying to get or get back , neither death nor sexuality existed except as unwarranted intrusions , and all was a paradisal oneness , where to be individual and autonomous meant the same as to be accepted and understood . |
| 10 | Nevertheless his poetry , as he said in an interview some years later , had " connected the wartime work very well " and " fitted in very nicely to the conditions under which I was writing " . |
| 11 | Stewart Wilson of the Department of Engineering Science at Oxford put forward the idea of using a Chinese sailing wheelbarrow instead of the two-wheeled cart which I was considering , and one of his students , Khalid Nazir , made a wooden prototype . |
| 12 | We all four ducked , there was a vivid white flash , the road on which I was crouching split in several directions , deep black crevices , then stuff came down on me and numbed my back and head . |
| 13 | A straw St Bridget 's Cross hung over the door of the dark little room in which I was eating my breakfast next morning . |
| 14 | I tried to smile at him through my tears , but I realized it had n't turned out very well , so I squeezed his hand which I was holding . |
| 15 | I had a couple of books which I had slipped into my light case — Somerset Maugham 's novel The Moon and Sixpence , which I was looking forward to reading again because it was , of course , based on the life of the painter Gauguin , who 'd lived here in the South Seas ; and a collection of Guy de Maupassant stories , in English . |
| 16 | It was the sort of weapon that you saw John Wayne wielding so well and twisting round his finger , but I did not like the idea of this thing which I was looking straight up the barrel of . |
| 17 | I push , prod , drop keys and re-attempt entry in vain until I realize that the only resemblance between the car into which I was breaking and entering and my own car is that they were both white . |
| 18 | What this all adds up to is that the coding of give/take relationship in fields quite remote from private domestic affairs is much closer to what the members of modern capitalist societies assume to be appropriate only for the restricted context of the domestic household than it is to the coding of power relationships within the wider context of the market economy which I was discussing earlier . |
| 19 | This is n't the part which I was understudying anyway . |
| 20 | In a world in which women are understood to be the equals of men , and in which we must promote the equality of people of different races , such a Christology as that which I was proposing would seem to be fruitful . |
| 21 | And I discovered the language and size of the plays in which I was working with all their complexities . |
| 22 | It 's er the title song is er and the second version which is a remix version which I 've done , which I was working on last night . |
| 23 | ‘ No matter ! ’ he said , moving towards the chair in which I was sitting and unbuttoning his flies . |
| 24 | I was deep into a descending spiral when I heard a tap at the window against which I was sitting . |
| 25 | We broke up after I met her mother , who walked into the room in which I was sitting , only to find me oblivious , shouting obscenities at a television screen whereon computerised pirates were digging up a desert island at my joystick 's behest . |
| 26 | which I was saying I was happy to accept . |
| 27 | I recall a day when I was new to the sport and I recall too the smell when lightning struck the limestone cliff on which I was climbing . |
| 28 | When he reached the empty space in which I was standing I saw that he had drawn an automatic . |
| 29 | I turned the pages ; but the top of the pew in front of me , upon which I was balancing the book , was narrow and my fingers cold . |
| 30 | We did n't think this could be true , somehow , and then one of my friends whose sense of humour was decidedly quirky , asked it to tap out in tens the age at which I was going to die . |