Example sentences of "[pron] was [v-ing] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In those days I was eating Almond Toffee Creams and they came in much cracklier paper . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I have jumped a bit when a car has backfired or the central heating has rumbled thinking for a moment I was hearing gun fire . |
| 3 | Instead I was riding moto cross at home with Fausto all the time . |
| 4 | ‘ When I was writing Firefly Summer , I did n't keep a notebook from the beginning , and I found myself having someone expelled from school who , when I checked , turned out to be 28 . |
| 5 | Oh I know but , if I was getting studio time there 's no way I 'd be going through the |
| 6 | We spent beyond our means when I was playing Test cricket before and earning good money . |
| 7 | Delegates in this room from Apex may recognize me as someone that used to get up and say I was representing Apex Public Service and Management Branch . |
| 8 | ‘ When I was designing Metaltronix gear , I made everything bigger , for product visibility , but I would get letters telling me that the Marshall ‘ standard ’ head dimensions were what they wanted , so that 's what I based these new amp heads on . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd told her I was doing contract construction work in the Middle East . |
| 10 | The fact that I had people to speak for me at the trial and that I was doing community work did n't appear to mean much to them . |
| 11 | Well at that particular time I was already on the council , I was doing family planning which took up an awful lot of my time . |
| 12 | Someone was buying army surplus , enough surplus to dress an army . |
| 13 | Someone was playing rock music in the flat above and the faint throb hovered in the sitting-room . |
| 14 | Early Muddy Waters stuff : his stuff was the first slide that I heard and I did n't know what it was ; I did n't know if someone was playing steel guitar ; it sounded like they were fretting the guitar and slidin' . |
| 15 | The minutes of the crime policy group record that , in common with various other expert witnesses , he attended one meeting of a sub-committee which was considering crime prevention . |
| 16 | The Dnestr Supreme Soviet voted on Sept. 20 , however , to lift a blockade of major railway junctions by women in Dnestr which was disrupting freight traffic and preventing Moldava fulfilling its economic contracts with Russia . |
| 17 | We got a small table near the orchestra , which was faking jazz music from their memories and short-wave radio . |
| 18 | The ANC said that the Commission 's revelations confirmed that the state had conducted a " vicious campaign of misinformation and propaganda " against the organization since its unbanning in February 1990 , and that they added weight to the widely held belief in the existence of a " third force " of agents provocateurs linked to the SADF which was engendering township violence . |
| 19 | She was counting silver ice buckets for the do . |
| 20 | So how did Mrs Price win her case when she was alleging age discrimination . |
| 21 | She was studying A-Level art . |
| 22 | In between clearing up her parent 's affairs she was doing deputation work , visiting various places to speak about the work in Africa . |
| 23 | When she did n't appear , we thought she was having bicycle trouble and was having to walk . |
| 24 | This did not seem a propitious moment for launching into an explanation of the possible repercussions of their lovemaking — and especially when she was having difficulty thinking . |
| 25 | When they reached the top his firm clasp loosened , then he dropped her hand to go to Matt , who was loading barbecue equipment on to a trailer attached to the rear of a minibus . |
| 26 | Vernon went upstairs with the intention of ringing Harcourt again , but the lounge door was ajar and he was seen by the soap salesman who was playing gin rummy with the traveller in miscellaneous stationery . |
| 27 | To anyone who was claiming unemployment benefit or social security , which I do n't , I would imply that I 'd registered as ‘ outdoor clerical ’ or similar , and was n't it a disgrace they could n't find me a job ? |
| 28 | In contrast , patient E22 , who was awaiting lung transplantation , deteriorated rapidly and died within 6 weeks of colonisation . |
| 29 | One was having difficulty fitting wheels on his police car . |
| 30 | In three patients there was coexisting liver disease and in one of these patients ( patient 9 ) , the PVO was associated with the development of hepatocellular carcinoma . |