Example sentences of "[subord] [conj] [pron] was [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you were saying about er Australia and that I I think at that particular time more so than now whatever was happening in the British pop scene seemed to just happen all over the world you know . |
| 2 | It was over as soon as it had happened , and as he turned in panic he could see that in reality she was exactly as before … except that she was looking at him now in a way that was more detached , stepping back as if to observe whatever he was going to do next . |
| 3 | ‘ No , nothing , except that he was going to hit me . ’ |
| 4 | Almost every interview ended with ‘ I do n't remember much except that it was snowing … ’ or words to that effect . |
| 5 | Apparently she knew enough to tell other people not to worry , but that might mean no more than that she was trying to put a brave face on things . |
| 6 | P.C. Clifford , the driver of the car , got her name and address and a statement from her , though it does n't amount to anything more than that she was looking over the bridge and saw the body . |
| 7 | He 'd hoped that it meant no more than that she was growing up and had become aware of herself as a young woman ; that as a consequence it was not quite the done thing for her to rush across a room and hug him like a kid sister , or trip him up in the haybarn and fling herself on top of him like a puppy spoiling for a game . |
| 8 | And there was nothing surer than that he was going to need her when Guido finally caught up with him ! |
| 9 | ‘ Insulting , then , ’ she agreed quietly , determined not to lose her temper , although if he was going to carry on in that vein the chances of her keeping it for very long were absolutely nil . |
| 10 | A feeling of peace and calm pervades the place , and the silence in and around the house somehow seems more complete than if one was standing , say , in the middle of an open field . |
| 11 | I was trembling a little , more anxious than if I was going to have a tooth out . |
| 12 | Charlotte returned almost gladly to the recollection of her morning interview , and in retrospect it seemed to her far more strange and mysterious than while it was happening . |
| 13 | I never saw an enormous lot of Basil except when he was passing through London and he wanted to buy pictures etc. and he would then come to see me and we would discuss them . |
| 14 | ‘ No , he kept the studio locked except when he was working , then he hated to be disturbed . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Except when she was doing grand larceny on someone else 's husband . ’ |
| 16 | I do n't really I think I might have come across that before once when I was doing my placement on actually . |
| 17 | Yeah well changes platforms of all these trains , anyway after a bit we decided that the Redditch train was going to come in before the train , so , er they did n't change it to say it was n't going to Redditch cos once when I was doing that they said to me , the lad was it , because it 's not to ready to change that time , you would n't matter , cos oh there 's people here waiting to go to Redditch , change it , so he said oh anyway it came , the twelve six came all the young folks going to you should of seen the number that had got off |
| 18 | With the playback that in fact erm as has said it showed me what in fact I was doing right and wrong , erm I 've been on television before once when I was running the London marathon but this time it was actually me and me alone in a work element and I could in fact see what I was doing and why I was doing it and understand in fact the corrections from the morning to in fact the afternoon presentation when I came back for the second one . |
| 19 | Pound was a serious man , and never more serious than when he was writing poetry ; and his poetry drives towards just those unpalatable conclusions that Olson forces us to look in the face . |
| 20 | An unemployed engineer in Coventry , who joined the Labour Party after being made redundant , walks to all his meetings and reckons he wears out his shoes three times faster than when he was working . |
| 21 | Cos if he was working , and driving he wo it , surely he would have automatically renewed it ? |
| 22 | Cos if you was gon na do the one at King Arthur 's I would of had some rice . |
| 23 | So if if nobody was looking for it or if they were n't used to the machines , examining the machines , they would n't know it was there . |
| 24 | Oh I 'm really pleased about that , cos last time on a , I was really disappointed I 'd been refused the course cos I thought oh , it 'll be right up my street that , cos when I was teaching full time I was quite into these er computers at the beginning and the one that went |
| 25 | Cos when I was telling about my music she said well you have n't got a video in that room , I said well no not yet I have n't . |
| 26 | Cos when I was coming home from Pete 's a bloke stopped me er whatever 's that noise ? |
| 27 | Cos when he was talking to his wife on the phone |
| 28 | Who 's helping Kate darling , and if as she was moving the box , she |
| 29 | Because where I was making boxes it was pulling the skin and was torn apart was n't it ? |
| 30 | Well , that night everyone went to sleep because if there was going to be a wedding everybody in the village would surely have to go . |