Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [verb] [Wh det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , just when you thought you could n't afford a real Paul Reed Smith and were going to spend what money you had managed to save on something else , along comes the new EG range . |
| 2 | And as I as I told you before , we was on the main concourse , heard the glass smashed , we come down a stairwell on , come round the back , saw the two , or saw two persons in the back garden , asked them what they were doing buy which time the the curtain went up in smoke , well up in flames . |
| 3 | As Agnese bustled off , Ronni was dying to ask what connection Jeff could have with Civitavecchia . |
| 4 | I was looking to see which way was the cleanest actually . |
| 5 | Duncan was beginning to wonder which players were playing on which side . |
| 6 | She had n't written to me for several weeks and I was beginning to wonder what stage her marriage plans had arrived at , but was n't at all prepared for the news that greeted me . |
| 7 | Most of his jokes turned on his posterior and the various crises for which he was having to see whatever proctologist he was currently consulting . |
| 8 | Algernon was trying to judge what danger , if any , he was in . |
| 9 | James , meanwhile , was trying to predict what number he would get by adding the squares of two consecutive numbers in the sequence . |
| 10 | She was trying to report what Thérèse told her and she got it wrong . |