Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does please me but the thing sometimes is , you do n't get results , I mean I just said to him at half time ‘ come on we 've got to be a bit stronger , ’ you know I thought we were playing quite well , but I thought we were letting them dominate us a little bit . |
| 2 | And then I went and showed her all forms , all these form things that they 've got I were letting her read it . |
| 3 | The fumes from the beer that had once been stored in the barrel were making him feel rather sick . |
| 4 | They were supporting him , they were making him look good , and the overall strategy seemed to be working . |
| 5 | ‘ The state of my health and my voice last year were making me think seriously of my pension , ’ he said . |
| 6 | It was all overdone , like the decorations in the ward , but even while I was having a superior little mental scoff , they were making me feel obscurely uneasy and near to tears . |
| 7 | she would , she was seeing me do it and I respect what she says and I do what I 'm told no she did n't say that |
| 8 | He said to Miriam , who was helping him dress the wounds of those hurt in the recent engagement : " The poor Collector has erysipelas . |
| 9 | He did not suspect whose money was helping him become a partner . |
| 10 | It was strange that she had never thought of him before , for she now remembered how quickly he had learnt poetry when she was helping him learn to read . |
| 11 | ‘ He 'll see I have n't let things slide , ’ he said to Carrie , when she was helping him put the shelves straight . |
| 12 | And they were , you know the stallion they was helping him put it . |
| 13 | The official was helping us get a parking pass from the Campus Police . |
| 14 | Luis was helping us clean the Plaster Room after a long session of plastering . |
| 15 | ‘ Is that the chap who was helping you move in the other day ? ’ |
| 16 | Glassfibre aggregate must be as hard-wearing as anything used now , and would n't it give you a warm glow to know that your old Saucy Sal was helping you speed to your new shining craft down the newly laid section of the motorway ? |
| 17 | He was letting himself go . |
| 18 | Yes I know , you can get somebody else to do that , be there for months and they do n't turn up at once , that was erm , I did n't realize they had to turn up at once , so I was letting them throw whenever they wanted |
| 19 | I suppose she meant if she put me on the Pill she was letting me sleep around . |
| 20 | For a while she even forgot why she was letting him make love to her in her surprise at the pleasure of it . |
| 21 | She was letting him go ! |
| 22 | He could hardly believe that she was letting him go , that he was not to be punished for what he had witnessed in the best room in the middle of the night . |
| 23 | She had planned on being ultra-cool , whatever provocation he might throw at her , and yet at the first word here she was letting him get to her all over again ! |
| 24 | He was letting her lead for reasons of his own . |
| 25 | It seemed he had just given up and was letting her go graciously and tenderly . |
| 26 | His attitude said he was letting her play at being a psychiatrist to please his godfather . |
| 27 | And although other people were certainly present they seemed to have faded to some other level of reality , very far removed from herself and this bulky , swarthy man who was letting her know , without a word , not only that he had her , but that should he now refuse to open the trap and let her in she would plead with him to do so . |
| 28 | He suspected Rose was letting her have some of her own money . |
| 29 | The only thing that ever seemed to hit was letting you think she was my lover . ’ |
| 30 | But on this night he was making one last move through the crowded bar , and at that exact moment O was making his way to the door . |