Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [adv prt] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Got to the other end and I think we were unloading in about an hour and a half or so . |
| 2 | When baking a cake , manufacturers of cake-mixes were told , women were acting out symbolically the birth of a child ( not for nothing was the vulgar phrase for pregnancy a ‘ bun in the oven ’ ) . |
| 3 | Initially , the children were waking up almost every night of the week , and about three or four times a night . |
| 4 | Ipswich players were going down quite a lot , and every time they did , Leeds kindly punted the ball back to them after the drop-ball restart . |
| 5 | We were going down there every day if possible , or every other day at least . |
| 6 | By this time my mother and me were getting on just a little bit better . |
| 7 | Our results suggest that our subjects were thinking in precisely the opposite way ( at least on their second repetition ) . |
| 8 | Then he was climbing back up the bank he had slithered down and I watched as he walked in a leisurely fashion across the slope of the mountain to the gully . |
| 9 | The sample from Wales came from the same locality as the short-eared owl and tawny owl pellet samples , and the kestrel was hunting over much the same area as these species . |
| 10 | But when he looked over his shoulder , expecting Eve to be doing much the same , she was heading in quite a different direction . |
| 11 | Do you realize — all this was going on exactly the same last March ? |
| 12 | There was only one person who would really understand , because he was going through exactly the same . |
| 13 | Foucault notes that , at the same time as the Annales school and others were constructing a history according to the long durée , in the history of science , philosophy , and literature , attention was turning in exactly the opposite direction , that is away from vast unities towards phenomena of rupture , discontinuity , displacement and transformation , towards different temporalities as well as architectonic unities . |
| 14 | Lamb allowed too much for the ball going across him , and dragged one that was coming back off the pitch onto his leg stump from side off . |
| 15 | I appreciated I was taking on quite a responsibility — I knew it would n't be like having a budgie in a cage as a pet — but I felt I could cope . |
| 16 | Kersey lit a cigarette ; before uttering a word he was finding out how the accountant reacted to boorish police tactics . |
| 17 | When she checked through the spyhole it was standing in exactly the same spot , unmoving , like a lizard . |
| 18 | I was standing in absolutely the correct place for my descent . |
| 19 | The men 's committee was waffling on twice a week and doing nothing ’ . |
| 20 | Dr Reading and the Swedish scientists began their work independently , neither knowing that the other was working on virtually the same project . |
| 21 | He hung on until I came out and I was given embarkation leave or demob leave rather and I did n't even have a chance to have that , they wanted me down there so quickly , I think I came out of the forces one week and I was working down there the following week because was way past his retiring age . |