Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the '70s many elements were fusing together making change in the way schools were run inevitable . |
| 2 | ‘ We were looking forward to free hospitality but there was n't a drop in sight . ’ |
| 3 | For a variety of reasons the European nobility of the eleventh and twelfth centuries were coming increasingly to need money : to indulge their taste in war , to meet a higher standard of living , to pay for their ever more costly gifts to their friends , their superiors and inferiors , and above all to the Church , to indulge their taste for extravagant building , and to give dowries to their daughters and patrimonies to their younger sons . |
| 4 | Although it was difficult to pretend that a former member of the Rhodesian Special Air Service was on a par in purely military terms with a goat-herd from Bolivia , the fact that both were starting afresh made administration that much easier . |
| 5 | Only when the Cobblers were doing well did county people go to Northampton , hence the club 's languishing state before Chapman took over . |
| 6 | This time we were sitting there drinking wine and having straights [ packet cigarettes ] . |
| 7 | I always reckoned 'er an' young Billy Sullivan was goin' ter get tergevver . |
| 8 | ‘ I was goin' ter call terday but it 's bin snowin' . ’ |
| 9 | At a time when many socialists were moving away from a naive faith in the prospects for revolutionary change and towards uneasy respect for democracy , Labour in office was doing little to justify belief in the viability of their vision of the road to socialism . |
| 10 | He was sitting there eating pie sandwiches . |
| 11 | One of them was glancing nervously around , and the other was trying unsuccessfully to stop crying . |
| 12 | Crealy Country , an adventure farm at Clyst St Mary , Devon , was planning yesterday to bring romance into Posy 's life by opening Slow Date , the country 's first Tortoise Dating Agency . |