Example sentences of "[noun] and [pron] was [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thousands of flags were waving , helium balloons were going up and air balloons were coming down , two separate bands at both ends of the huge auditorium were playing different songs and everyone was cheering and screaming their heads off . |
| 2 | And , well , I was n't doing anything , so I just started writing songs again — but this time they were guitar-based songs and I was working on a Portastudio . |
| 3 | It was one of his favourite songs and he was showing them all in the lounge bar at Ingham 's how it should be sung one Saturday night . |
| 4 | He did n't want to push her away , but he was getting close to his limit ; his blood was starting to pound in his ears and he was seeing haloes around all of the lights outside . |
| 5 | I certainly wanted it to be true because I was the only boy ( well , nearly the only boy ) in our class never to have had a girlfriend and I was beginning to feel a bit left out . |
| 6 | It was a warm , sunny june day in Fontanellato and I was riding out into the country on my bicycle when another cyclist gave me the news . |
| 7 | They were in the bedroom and he was tucking her in under the quilt , stroking her forehead , pushing back the damp strands of blonde hair where her tears had soaked them . |
| 8 | The order was for the production of material relating to the purchase by a client , Mrs G , of certain real property , the allegation being that she was a member of the family of another person who was suspected of being a drug trafficker and who was using her for the purpose of laundering the proceeds of such trafficking . |
| 9 | And erm th they went to an auction and she was saying how interesting it was . |
| 10 | She was sort of c getting over the getting over the disappointment and she was getting a little bit more user- friendly and she |
| 11 | There were tears in her eyes and she was looking far from pleased . |
| 12 | She supposed that Maria Luisa must have turned to Fernando in her despair when Steve had left Seville and that was how their affair had started ; now Fernando was so besotted it edged towards obsession and he was doing crazy things like holding her here against her will for some sort of revenge on Steve . |
| 13 | at the time , I said we were , I was doing sixty hours a week in me car , we were doing six nights a week cabaret and he was driving all day |
| 14 | Brian Hillier agreed with the defence suggestion that he had nothing to fear from any so-called threats , he had already resigned from the club and he was awaiting trial for cheating the taxman . |
| 15 | I had n't seen her since that night at the Club and I was beginning to despair of ever seeing her again . |
| 16 | Now I was ready to take on the guards and he was calming me , rather than me him . |
| 17 | He made sure that Dosh — or Freddie — sat next to him , so I ended up with Freddie or Dosh in the back seat and she was getting very friendly by the time we got to Knightsbridge . |
| 18 | I was using stiffer rods and he was using softer ones . |
| 19 | He had been riding in front of Chuck and his father , watching with admiration the erect , narrow-backed figure of Jacques Devraux jogging easily at the head of the column ; the fierce-eyed Frenchman had quickly made a deep impression on Joseph 's fifteen-year-old mind and he was trying to hold his own shoulders high and square in the same fashion . |
| 20 | Erm when I came on to the flats I came with an open mind and I was gon na you know take things as I as I met them . |
| 21 | Michael is a man who knows his own mind and I was relying on him for some controversial quotes , but he surprised me by agreeing on the whole with Mr Isherwood 's choices . |
| 22 | Easter had been set as the tentative date to ‘ roll-in ’ the first aircraft and everything was looking on course for this . |
| 23 | Her hands slid up around his neck and she was kissing him back , her tongue meeting his with an intensity that was shocking . |
| 24 | When it was over she leant against him , the side of her face pressed against his neck and she was muttering , ‘ This … it should n't have happened , Charlie . |
| 25 | up there and all of a sudden he saw it and he came in the room , Tony and he went he looked up at it and the stood up at the back of his neck and he was going grurgh ever so quietly under his breath grurgh . |
| 26 | His hands were on her neck and he was squeezing . |
| 27 | And this morning she jumped on my neck and I was sleeping and I woke up , you know what she does while she 's doing it ? |
| 28 | Gail was then a nursing supervisor of an Overseas Missionary Fellowship Home for retired missionaries and I was pursuing a high flying career selling shoes . |
| 29 | and erm , we both decided we 'd take this diploma and er Mr erm in his kindness let us erm erm go off to the workshops and do some practical work and erm my wife lived at Stow Upland and I was lodging in Ipswich and er he even allowed us to study in the , in the erm Enquiry Office in the evenings . |
| 30 | There was a white line around his mouth and he was watching her with undisguised lust , as if he wanted her and hated himself for being so human . |