Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She glanced up at him , feeling oddly shy , almost as though she were meeting him for the first time with no doubts , no mistrust , between them . |
| 32 | By October local players were establishing themselves in the City reserves . |
| 33 | IWAS looking at them uncomprehendingly ; they were eyeing me like a cat watches a captured mouse that might yet try to make a dash for freedom . |
| 34 | If the bird were dashing itself against the bars , feathers flying , then the similarities to human suffering would arouse impulses to assist , even to release it , like the giraffe . |
| 35 | He drove through the backstreets , and the quieter residential boulevards , where people had either ignored the date and retired to sleep , or were celebrating it in the privacy of their homes . |
| 36 | The hackers were surpassing themselves in the inventive ways they hit the ball badly , and often , and in the wrong direction . |
| 37 | In effect the Berlin banks who loaned money to the Junkers were paying themselves through an agricultural clearing house in East Prussia . |
| 38 | When you 're seeking a grant for your pet project , you have to sell it to the sponsoring body as if you were touting it on the open market , because there are so many pet projects and only so many grants . |
| 39 | The bastards were kicking him like a fucking dog . |
| 40 | And you got the odd look but it was n't too severe because at least though they had no clothes on at least you were holding them by the waist . |
| 41 | You were getting yourself into a whole load of trouble , Fran , and I needed to ensure that there would be someone around to look after you when I could n't be . |
| 42 | But examples of this kind were pointing him in the direction he wanted to go . |
| 43 | Complaints from the regional Propaganda Offices that neither press , nor radio , nor newsreels were reporting anything about the Führer any longer were to no avail . |
| 44 | Their parents were sending them to the Wimbledon Islamic Day Independent Boys ' School because they wanted them to grow up English . |
| 45 | Talk was intense among the youngsters , and the young actors and actresses roaming Sunset Strip were no different to the youth of America , if not the world , in that they too were a disoriented bunch in search of idols ; Clift , Brando and Dean were providing them with a whole new repertoire of sayings , postures , stances and gestures . |
| 46 | Yet Chapman saw that the future of English football ultimately depended on the young , and he was particularly concerned to win youngsters over to soccer and away from rugby , a concern heightened by the fact that his two sow , Ken and Bruce , were distinguishing themselves in the rugby code . |
| 47 | But , if you were buying it at a garage you were probably gon na pay at least four |
| 48 | There was strength and an inner confidence reflected in those steady grey eyes that she suddenly realised were subjecting her to a thorough appraisal . |
| 49 | She made it sound as if she were saying it for the first time . |
| 50 | And then when you were cutting it in the Winter , you could see the the the layers you know . |
| 51 | The Bermuda discussions were brought before the British Cabinet on 4 February ; Lord Winster said that the talks were only preliminary , but the Americans were treating them as a final agreement . |
| 52 | Amir Taheri , an Iranian author , said on television that all the governments with hostages in Lebanon — America , France , Germany , Britain , South Korea — were treating it as a bona-fide political problem — apart from Britain . |
| 53 | Before long , critics were hailing it as a masterpiece , and since then opinion has remained divided . |
| 54 | They had taken the area from the rebels and were defending it on the orders of General Kopyion . |
| 55 | ‘ They were doing everything by the book . |
| 56 | I think I think there was som some sent to Chester for example , I think they were doing something in the cathedral in Chester . |
| 57 | And the fact that they were doing it for a great deal more money , like Havvie Blaine , rather than for supper and a few pence , did n't make it any better . |
| 58 | Bob , who hides a sparky humour , behind a grizzled exterior , said tenants who were taking his beers were doing it on a ‘ belligerent , sod-the-brewer basis ’ . |
| 59 | Now at that stage you were doing it on the telephone were you ? |
| 60 | An and he 's taking up what might , we might want to or , or what could be portrayed as restorationist as being revolutionary where I , I 'm not sure that it fully was a revolution er a and I you see what Mao is saying is that there would have been a class basis for all of this , they were doing it as a class of peasant , they might not have been , they might have been doing it just for restorationist purposes . |