Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pron] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were keeping it a secret and they were going to take him some place where they sold parrots . |
| 2 | He started living lavishly and tried to extort more and more money from the government who were paying him a tax-free pension of $1,050 a month . |
| 3 | They were saying what a stupid series it was , how ridiculous the character was , and it would n't get beyond the first episode . |
| 4 | It was as if I were doing him a big favour . |
| 5 | ‘ Just one , ’ she said graciously , managing to make it sound as though she were doing him a big favour . |
| 6 | I hoped the u s authorities were giving him a hard time . |
| 7 | That same day he told me , as if he were giving me a magnificent present , that he thought he could pull strings and have me posted with him . |
| 8 | And , and of course needlework , but erm they were mainly the , I suppose they were giving you a good er grounding as they 'd call it in those days . |
| 9 | As Coleman 's real job was to file back-channel reports on the operations of DEA Nicosia , the DIA was hardly likely to have told Hurley that they were lending him a full-time agent . |
| 10 | Here the Bey of Tunis was building himself a superb mausoleum . |
| 11 | This was costing him a small fortune . |
| 12 | The Oil War was costing us a billion dollars a day , and we already had more than four hundred and twenty-five thousand men in Saudi Arabia . |
| 13 | Hugh , who had worn the uniform of a verderer for less than a twelvemonth , was no use to them as a guide and as the day grew on it became evident that his arm was causing him a great deal of pain . |
| 14 | Sien was causing him a great deal of worry as the year wore on . |
| 15 | Mat. , she had managed to give the impression authority was granting me a great favour . |
| 16 | I was expecting you a little bit earlier actually , I think perhaps you got the times wrong I was |
| 17 | But , but , but I think that the Reverend David Brian was saying something a little bit erm more direct and more overarching than dealing only with those people that you 're talking about , were n't you , David ? |
| 18 | Mrs Goreng presented the idea like she was doing me a big favour , giving me the chance to teach the future malai President . |
| 19 | Of course , in thinking like this , I was doing him a great injustice : the change was not so much in him , as in the way I saw him . |
| 20 | ‘ All I do know is that when we were on the way here he was asking me a great many questions about what went on in the village . |
| 21 | I can not quite remember the title of the Ballet , but Miss Margot Fonteyn was on her way up , we were quite sure , and that redhead Moira Shearer was running her a good second . |
| 22 | Until the mishap he was giving me a great feel and I was delighted how he was going in the blinkers . ’ |
| 23 | But no , it seemed to be the local name for the twenty kilo fish which was giving me a hard time , though later someone else called it a kingfish . |
| 24 | When he straightened up , Pion was giving him a puzzled look . |
| 25 | He probably was k feeling kind because he thought he was giving you a nice stick . |
| 26 | A second or so later she was giving herself a mental shake and opening her eyes again . |
| 27 | And we did it first half , and when we were in possession , we were winning it in their sort of last third of the field , and that was giving us a great chance to create scoring chances and that 's what we 've done again today which has worked very well . |
| 28 | ‘ He was giving us a bad time , though , till you came in . |
| 29 | Inchbad had moved across to sit beside her and had taken her hand between his finger and thumb and was exclaiming what a pretty little thing she was and it the shame of the world that her brother had had to ride of land leave her all alone . |
| 30 | Although unladen with any climbing gear — even the daysack was being carried by Singi — I was finding it a hard struggle to make upward progress in the thin , cold air ; surprisingly more so than on Mera Peak when ice-axe , crampons and heavy climbing boots had been used . |