Example sentences of "[det] 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 | 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 . |
| 17 | But nothing much was replacing it . |
| 18 | Now that so much was happening I felt better . |
| 19 | Sir Charles Morrison , Mr Simon Parker-Bowles , and Norman Squires , and his wife , the latter was enjoying her first visit to London ! |
| 20 | This , at any rate , was the offer which Richard made to the King of France while the latter was disbanding his mercenaries at Bourges . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Keeping her voice steady was a battle in itself as the touch of his hard , powerful body against her own was sending her breathing awry . |
| 23 | Erm and that was using their own U S A er catapult . |
| 24 | And , I 've gone out , it was n't that was hacking my fence mind , erm , it was another boy , I did n't know him with a , and I went out and I , I and he said , I was n't . |
| 25 | Well cos th the government had allowed them so much I suppose and erm that was costing them so much on wages and that , so they had to cut them down on wages . |
| 26 | This was an ingenious wheelchair attached to the front of a bicycle ; and lastly as I left , I had a word with Stefan Sielaff from Germany , who had designed a fantastic three-wheeled single seater vehicle in fibreglass , that was catching everyone 's eye ! |
| 27 | That was gathering it in and if they were putting it into little into tramp coles I had to get up and tramp hay round and round the boss and er I did that . |
| 28 | So that was If I 'd done it you see , that was spoiling them . |
| 29 | It was something else that was bothering him , something illogical that he could n't explain to the Captain until he had explained it to himself . |
| 30 | You 're gon na stop behind me mate and I 'm gon na do my own speed and that annoyed him more than anything else that was annoying him . |