Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the contrary , there was attempts to the life of our Emir during the Iraq/Iran war because we were taking relatively trying to be neutral there , and there was a bomb attack on him , and he personally survived it , a few others died , and it had to do directly with the Iran/Iraq war . |
| 2 | Harvey was clowning around pretending to be a gunman , which was his way of being sarcastic to me . |
| 3 | But when he thought he had reached the peak of his misery and was regretting ever coming to this place the rain started to slow and ease off . |
| 4 | Therefore , by the mid-1970s , Cramlington was proceeding much according to plan , with a number of firms being attracted to the area and the consequent job creation being associated with extensive housing developments by both the private and , public sectors . |
| 5 | Stok was sitting there speaking to a telephone that looked like a prop from The Young Mister Edison . |
| 6 | he just said he was sitting there waiting to ma |
| 7 | I was standing there talking to him , and over on the other side of Lime Street , the station side , there was another mackintosh shop and they had ten shilling notes pasted in the window . |
| 8 | I was standing there talking to his daughter , Millie . |
| 9 | I coughed loudly and scraped my foot on the floor to draw their attention to who was standing quietly listening to them rowing . |
| 10 | If the Masai had an educational system of their own which was functioning well according to their own criteria , there was no reason for them to view with favour the introduction into it , by people whose hegemony they accepted but did not welcome , of alien elements . |