Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] was [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early next morning we approached Port Augusta where I was getting off . |
| 2 | The strangers ' faces were barely visible , but from ground level ( where I was leaning out of the tent ) I could see that three of them were wearing football boots . |
| 3 | The wind that blew tin cans along the streets of the dormitory suburb where I was growing up was the same wind that howled round peak and scar and wrested piccolo tunes from the reed patches below the drystone walls . |
| 4 | I was watching the Scum Derby on Sky this weekend , and managed to catch some of the phone-in afterwards , where someone was going on about an Autobiography written by the froggy himself . |
| 5 | Seeing she was getting nowhere with Paul , he had taken over and saved her from having to cope with a great deal of harassment . |
| 6 | It would take a bold , reforming chancellor and an economy where everything was going right . |
| 7 | Finally , and seeing he was getting nowhere , overcome by an incipient lethargy induced by the excesses of the previous night and exacerbated by the heat , the priest slowly rose to his feet and picked up his hat . |
| 8 | Travis asked from the fire , where he was setting up a pan of water . |
| 9 | Yes , where he was going now he could at least appear as himself ; the face was avowal enough , his dress should match the face . |
| 10 | How often , in the beginning , had he stood where he was standing now and watched her play ? |
| 11 | This was borne out by observing him in the classroom , where he was sitting quietly working , in contrast with the much less controlled behaviour of other children in this small group . |
| 12 | One week we decided to follow him to find out where he was sloping off to We found him on the roof ledge peering down at people in a car below . |
| 13 | A bleak scene outside where it was raining hard , and he felt bleak inside . |
| 14 | She spoke sharply and pushed me outside where it was snowing hard . |
| 15 | Similar developments were taking place in pharmaceuticals , aerospace , construction and automobiles , where it was becoming increasingly difficult for firms to maintain capability in all the technology options for the future . |
| 16 | Although I was helping out Miss Louise I had to get up at six o'clock in the morning to do all the chores before school . |
| 17 | It was about then that I noticed I could not touch the bottom and I felt myself going faster downstream than I was going across . |
| 18 | The summer had arrived so I was training more regularly , but still lightly . |
| 19 | Vivien had been up at St Hugh 's , so I was looking forward to her being an excellent guide . |
| 20 | I was ( I think you will understand ) initially dubious about a single 10″ driver in such a small box really delivering the goods ( especially with the lower notes on my 5-string ) but was certainly intrigued by the cabinet design , so I was looking forward to giving the little beast some stick on a couple of gigs … |
| 21 | But there was no kitchen and he sure as hell was in no state to get up , so I was wondering where he was going to get something to drink from . |
| 22 | Once I was talking alone to Lucy in a corner , laughing together and , as I impulsively took one of her hands in both of mine , I heard a sharp cry of ‘ Lucy ! |
| 23 | Although she was looking forward to leaving the home , she felt she was n't ready to go quite yet , and her baby son had been harder to cope with than she 'd expected . |
| 24 | She remained as thin as a rake , although she was eating properly now . |
| 25 | ‘ Just get into it , ’ Leila advised , although she was sitting further back , reading a book by the light of a small lamp . |
| 26 | Although she was sitting only a foot or two away from him in the opposite corner of the seat and had frequently tried to smile at him , he felt inexplicably betrayed . |
| 27 | he was going to be dependant upon her , so she was taking on |
| 28 | Once she was holding out a small present done up in coloured wrapping . |
| 29 | Once she was driving home from a riotous party in the French countryside in order to allow Bernard to sleep on the back seat . |
| 30 | To that end , she tried to keep alive Cissie 's love for her brother , although it was proving more and more difficult as the girl frequently pointed out , ‘ He ai n't the same , Beth . |