Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [pers pn] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon all who were following me were leading me so the chances were that they were not following me though they could still be following me by leading me and then waiting around to ambush etcetera etcetera ; but of course not . |
| 2 | My parents had stayed over in Middlesbrough that night and they were taking me home the next day . |
| 3 | They were reading it down the tape and I had to tape it all . |
| 4 | He felt tired , slightly drunk and frightened ; if an assassin was hunting him then the dark runnels of Edinburgh at night would only provide fresh opportunities . |
| 5 | Five minutes later Breeze was escorting him up the winding flagged path . |
| 6 | He was asking them how the hunt had begun , and what had happened before we joined it . |
| 7 | Some years ago , shortly after I took up climbing , a more experienced Geordie acquaintance was taking me up the Barbican on Castle Rock , Thirlmere . |
| 8 | Bruce was showing him how the new tree planting was coming on . |
| 9 | Vincent 's conscience was telling him precisely the opposite , and at the top of its voice . |
| 10 | In fact , he was telling me only the other week , about the the number of criminals that he knows , they 're serving their they 're serving sentences , and they 're only one thing they 're longing and hoping for , it is get out , so they can knock another old lady down , |
| 11 | Derek was telling us only the last time he was home all about his Mate up there on the Rigs . |