Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now the passage of the years was doing it for him . |
| 2 | A scattered crowd of locals was eyeing them in silence . |
| 3 | and the doctors was selling them to rich Romanians and things like that so there 's such a lot of corruption in the country . |
| 4 | She longed for some proper clothes too — having to wear one of his large baggy T-shirts was doing nothing for her self-image . |
| 5 | Ironically , at the same time as Babes was killing himself in protest against Ceauşescu 's tyranny , the BBC ran a holiday programme detailing the pleasures of skiing around Braşov and suggesting that viewers go to Romania for a glimpse of glasnost . |