Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He found that they were suddenly eating pizza and jokingly said oh they might have got him one , so one of them used a police car to take him to the nearest all night pizza place and then he walked back to the airport and waited , having done a deal with the one taxi driver who was there , and he and shared a taxi , arriving home c. 0215 and then proceeded to have a meal of a MASS of pasta and sauce previously made by me , and of a type which both boys always ask day in day out when here or there ! |
| 2 | These kids were obviously pursuing success and they were sinking inordinate amounts of energy , week in , week out , into their efforts . |
| 3 | Wilfred Harte , 65 , was enraged because they were always watching TV and running up big electricity bills , the Old Bailey heard . |
| 4 | In the exercise above , you were probably using simile and metaphor without realising it . |
| 5 | His parents were probably having coffee and pastries in a place among people ; Stu would be laughing and larking about with his mates at the wallpaper shop . |
| 6 | ‘ At that time you were habitually abusing drink and had a serious problem controlling your temper . |
| 7 | She felt that they were really making progress but Sarah 's friend Edie Meadows , who lived nearby , came in . |
| 8 | More changes were now taking place and further pilots were rested . |
| 9 | In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries those who had climbed to prosperity on the back of the slave trade were regularly leaving property and assets worth anything between £16,000 and £1 million . |
| 10 | The youths were neither causing damage nor harm . |
| 11 | The club was launched in the spring by Dave Caul , the manager , along with Mike Knowler and Andy Carroll , who were previously spinning house and hip hop at The State in Liverpool . |
| 12 | Noting that Communists were either sharing power or had lost it in several countries , he promised Moscow would not interfere in the internal affairs of any east European nation , since it believed in the free right of all states to choose their own system . |
| 13 | But the supercharged 1.5-litre V16 engine was all wailing noise and no go . |
| 14 | A Georg who was constantly finding fault and who , in some curious way over the three years of her absence , had become mean . |
| 15 | Borland International Inc has formalised its agreement with Epson Sales , the marketing subsidiary of Seiko Epson Co , for the sale and technology licensing of a Japanese version of InterBase 3.2 — at Borland 's Tokyo announcement of InterBase last December , Epson was already demonstrating InterBase and the first release of InterBase JA3.2 is on Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcsystems , available from April 12 ; Borland plans to put the Japanese version of the database up on other machines ; the Japanese version supports a number of new functions including distributed databases , active data processing — functions such as triggers and event alerters — language support ( including support for both JIS and EUC codes sets ) and binary large objects ; Borland in conjunction with Epson Sales and its systems integration subsidiary Trans Abel , is to set up a Borland Authorised Support Centre for education and training . |
| 16 | And I was reading , I was n't even doing anything , I was just sitting reading and the teacher walked in and I did n't hear him . |
| 17 | The resolution to this , I believe , lies in the fact that Ms. Archibald was mistakenly associating loyalty and admiration with politics , whereas it was in fact simple jingoism . |
| 18 | Mr Lambert added the inquiry was still gathering steam and had not yet peaked despite the recent removal of the mobile police pod outside the pensioner 's home . |
| 19 | And it shows that , far from being suicidal , he was clearly enjoying life and looking forward to the future . |
| 20 | Similarly , in Engineers ' and Managers ' Association v. ACAS ( 1980 ) the House of Lords by a majority held that ACAS had not acted unreasonably in postponing its statutory enquiries for the time being because another union was also seeking recognition and the plaintiff Association was also suing the Trades Union Congress . |
| 21 | Following the February letter the Group was now producing work and information needed . |
| 22 | replied that more precise analysis was now taking place and that more information had been needed for the audit . |
| 23 | The old King was now hurrying south and with him would come those grizzled warlords who followed like mastiffs at the royal heels . |
| 24 | If anything , she was relieved at the outcome –f that particular incident — Josie had been right when she 'd said that after going so far Lucy was now marking time and getting no further . |
| 25 | So far from craving for crumpets I was firmly resisting repatriation and trying hard to stay where I was ; the kindness of friends enabled me to do so . |
| 26 | In the early 1960s office and storage accommodation was again causing concern and in the summer of 1964 DSIR authorised the building of a new office for the Edinburgh staff . |
| 27 | Yet by the 1830s , some 50 students a year were gaining their qualifying diploma ( after an oral examination , conducted exclusively by medical men ) and the profession was steadily gaining recognition and status . |
| 28 | But more important , she realized that the gesture was available to all and thus did not really belong to her : when she waved her arm , she was actually committing theft or forgery . |